Wednesday, 17 July 2013

Day 198



"All in" is a poker term.
I know this, not because I play poker (I'm actually dreadful at poker) but because I once designed web assets for a poker company and whilst hanging around poker types, you pick things up (though not much; I'm still dreadful at poker).

Cheating, of course, is a diabolical practice and one that is deeply condemned by the poker community. Traditionally, anyone found to be cheating during a game of poker must immediately bite off their own fingers and use them to up the ante.
But that hasn't deterred Maxwell Systems from their twisted agenda. They have been heading up a project to develop the world's first automated poker cheater - a relentless automaton designed to play dirty with every hand, whilst blending in seamlessly at the table by ordering drinks and faking a tell.
The secret of this automaton was revealed to me as I researched into the background of today's THREEHUNDREDANDSIXTEEFIVE challenge T-shirt donated by Virginia-based print works Custom Ink. It seems the automaton is named Mitch (or Mine Is To Cheat Hard) and has his own Facebook page in an effort to appear more average than his glassy expression portrays. 'Poker' is listed under his interests.

This tee came in the Custom Ink package of random print jobs they posted to me a while back and has completely blown the gaff wide open on the Maxwell Systems Mitch conspiracy. I shall keep a close eye on the situation and when the time comes I will Call them on their shenanigans and Raise hell. I'm not Bluffing. I will definitely Flush them out.

Flop.

Ok, I'm finished.

See more from Custom Ink via their Twitter account

THREEHUNDREDANDSIXTEEFIVE Project

Hi, I’m Andi Best and I’m a regular guy, rising to an irregular challenge.

People tell me I have a lot of T-shirts. These people are not wrong, it’s true, I do.

But one person went as far as to tell me I have so many T-shirts, I could probably wear a different one every day. This is obviously not true, but it got me thinking - what if I could wear a different T-shirt every day? What if I never wore the same T-shirt twice for an entire year?

Challenge accepted

I have created project THREEHUNDREDANDSIXTEEFIVE which, beginning January 1st 2013, will track my pro gress sourcing and wearing a different T-shirt every day for the next 365 days – and I’m going to need your help to do it…

TAKE PART HERE