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As a James Bond fan in heart, I went to watch latest James Bond movies, Casino Royale 007. I am not going to discuss about the story here. My focus is however about the many scenes about playing poker in the movie. There story is about James Bond attending a poker contest which runs for a couple of days in a private casino. Texas Hold'em is played. Most Hong Kong people do not know Texas Hold'em. Instead, they are mostly misled by the local gambling-themed movies which usually play a card game called Show Hand. I am glad to see Texas Hold'em (or Poker hereafter) in the movie. Not just because I know this game, but actually I like this game which demands a good combination of risk management and betting skills. Imaging yourself to be a patient player and having to play a series of several days, you can easily realize the need of skills instead of card luck. Moreover, the community cards give players good hints and deriving tactics, as well as making more addictive and exciting hands. You might have seen the Two Pairs which got beaten by a straight, which then got beaten by a flush and another full house in the same hand. I have read a few books and some online articles about how to play poker well. I also tried to play it at home with some friends once or twice. The experience was pretty good, and I was usually the winner at the end. Typical Eurogamers usually dislike poker games because of luck element. I incline to treat risk management as a crucial skills in playing games and in competing in the real life society.
Happy New Year 2007 to you all. It has already entered 2007 for 3 hours in Hong Kong. I have some resolutions regarding gaming.
- Record (not buy) at least 100 more games from my existing game collection onto BGG.
- Give ratings to at least 50 games on BGG.
- Give comments to at least 50 games on BGG.
- Record all games I play on BGG.
- Try to write game reviews or session reports.
- Try to be a columist about gaming in a local magazine.
- Explore the possibility to publish a book on gaming.
- Work out to publish a game of my design.
- Acquaint a few more capable and smart gamers with good attitude.
- Play more games than buying. Particularly play more old and rarely played games and heavier games.
- Study more about the educational aspects of games.
- Research more games suitable for a couple.
- Keep this blog alive and active, and well-organized.
- Brief the naming of this blog.
Sounds too many items mentioned, but I do wish I can manage them well all this year. Keeping writing this blog is utterly important as I wish to practice more on writing. Some of the resolutions aim to help reinforcing my knowledge on gaming and turning into expertise. Lastly, my dream is to make gaming somewhat at certain extent into (at least part of) my career.
Let see how it go, and let me do an evaluation at the end of 2007.
The year 2006 is going to be a page of history in about 5 minutes. It's a good time to summarize my gaming life in 2006.
Several remarkable works have been committed or initiated in the late 2006. Firstly, I learnt how to write game logs to record and to assess games played. Started on 31 October 2006, even started on BGG to log games played. 235 plays have been logged so far, which 106 plays in December, and 126 plays in Novement, plus 3 plays on 31 October. More monumentally, my game collection was started to be organized on BGG. 116 games have been cataloged in the previous two months. 300+ games are still pending to be cataloged. At the same time, I have given my ratings to 96 games and comments to 100 games. The progress seems not bad. I believe the numbers will be kept growing in 2007.
Apart from the activities on BGG, it is definitely worthwhile to mention the creation of this blog. Less one month time, more than a dozen posts have been published here. As a person who seldom writes, I am pretty satisfied by this. Keep go on in 2007.
About time to start a countdown to enter 2007, wish you all have a happy new year.
