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Thursday, July 28, 2005
  Reasons ?
Actually i might have worked out why i was suspended,
coz there was this one time in particlar I was watching
some ppl play against Dayle in a $10 tourney. And i
was being especially annoying, giving them all a hard time
saying how prophecy said some of them were really bad,
after a while they were begging for me to leave, and they
were all on tilt, but may be they complained, damn them !
 
  Yesterday
Had 6 ppl (including me) turn up for beers and dinner,
wat a turn out ! Silks food is good, except i dont like
the fact they keep trying to take your food when your
still going. They attempted to removed my dessert 3 times,
clearly i hadnt finished !

Also yesterday i developed new bird squaking add-on.
It starts off as a bird squaking, then it turns into
a crazy monkey. Labelled BSMICM (bird squaking morphs
into crazy monkey) Yesterday was one of my more productive
days!
 
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
  Beverage and poker ?
I would grab a few beers at some pub
and then head down and play some 4-8 semi-
drunk at the casino. Being drunk would help
me lower myself to their stupid level.

Anyone ? at least a beverage !
 
  In the wilderness
I woke up in the morning today, logged onto to pary poker.
Said "i couldnt log on", checked my emails, saw two emails
saying all my money in party poker had been thrown into
a neteller account. ARRGGGH , WATS GOING ON ?!!!!

Apparently using poker prophecy is illegal, its some stupid
program that says how well people have been going. Its like
Australia playing England in cricket, and Ricky Ponting being
banned for checking up how England did in their last test
match. Its bizzare, anyway, I didnt even really use it, but
i cant play on party poker anymore. Hopefully they let me
back in, but its a bit disconcerting.

As Jon said its like rocking up to work and finding out they
have changed the locks on the door, and ur not allowed in.
Its strange at my old job, Ive had mushrooms , drank at work , played
soccer and cricket at work, had porn banners popping up on
my screen, left to watch the test match during work hours,
made a movie at work and nothing even happened, and i use
some stupid program on party poker and they kick me out !
Apparently i got warning emails, but they never came thru.

Live and learn : )
 
  Clean sweep
Won both beach volleyball games , hoh and we dominated,
even if its not a high grade, but there were
amazing points and spikes etc. etc.

Then indoor soccer in the evening, on the back of
some beers and a big dinner. We hadnt played in a
while due to missing players. And we started off
so retarded it was embarassing.

30 seconds in- i pass to Barter the ball hits the side of his
leg instead of his foot, the ball ricochets out. Desmond.
60 seconds in - the ball goes towards the base line,
i believe someone is in pursuit so i shepherd the ball
towards the line, also decide to put some fancy goose steps/
side steps to confuse my opponent who i believe is in pursuit,
in, I stumble and almost fall over, the guy was about 5m behind, so
egg !

2 mins in we'ere down 3-1.

We come back and win 12-4, we rock !!!

Key to indoor sports is to start egg, and lull them into a
false sense of security, then attack !
 
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
  Beers ?
anyone want a beer at exeter or somewhere
after work ? (wednesday)

ill have one.
 
  Melbourne ?!!!
wHO wANTS tO hAVE fUN ?!

Leaving for Melbourne - Friday Aug 19th afternoon
Comine back Adelaide - Monday Aug 22nd evening

Vic Poker championships are on, the world champion
should also be there.

Playing poker friday night tourney, and during the day
on the weekend, plan to hit the town at Fri / sat / sun
night !

If u want in or want more info, quickly spk to me me soon,
coz im going to book accomodation this week at that
place which is cheap, and near the crown.

So far lap and i are going, if your going to be ghey
and sit on your hands at home, dont bother telling me.

Also if no one else is coming, i might just stay at the
crown, its a joke anyway !

Should be good i hope !!
 
Monday, July 25, 2005
  Poker corner
May as well write something here. Went to the
twilight zone on the weekend with Jon. Although
its official name is the poker zone, it really
is a place which just sucks a lot of time, and
if your unlucky , money as well.

Sat down for almost 7 hours without really getting
up, and even ordered some toastie cheese sandwiches
at the table, by the end of the session I had lost $180,
and the people who won were complete idiots !!!
The gap in skill was pretty much the same as me playing Roger
Federer in tennis, but in poker u can still lose ! Not
that im the best at poker by anymeans, but i have never
seen much worse at poker, and im not the world's worst
tennis player. There were the usual idiots there, the drunk, the
stoned guy, the guy who turns his cards over
at the river with people still to act, the guy
who calls the river with 9 high, and the guy
who doesnt raise with a straight flush !

Whats the best strategy? Have fun, order some drinks,
play tight, and amuse yourself with the crazy antics
going on.

WATS GOING ON THIS WEEK IN POKER
Tonite (Tuesday) - Noble Poker qualifier for Vic
Champs ($65) - winner gets a seat in main event,
and $500 travel money !!!

Wed - Sat - Poker at Adelaide Casino
Get there 30mins b4, start times are
Wed - 7pm, Thurs - 7pm, Fri - 8pm, Sat - 8pm

Sunday morning - Party Poker Million dollar plus
tourney ($640), but play in a smaller qualifier!

Sunday evening - matchroom ? Havent been in a while.

GAMES IVE BEEN PLAYING
Have been pretty slack, but playing more ring. 10-20
Ring NL. Play for an hour, do ok, then call it a day.
Lost a hand today, when i had As and he hit his flush
draw, but all u have to do is keep making the right
decisions and u win at cash NL. Another hand i had Js,
called the $100 raise pre-flop, flop Q-7-2, He bet
$175, i thought about it ,decided i could well
be ahead, so i called, see what he would do on
the turn. Prolly could have raised. Then Turn
comes J. He pushes all in, i know he has nothing
at this point, plus i have a set, he shows 6-7,
drawing dead. Scoop up a nice pot. Good test of holding
your nerves. Will try and play some multis this week.
 
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
  Poker has arrived !
Ooooo, its here, Poker has come to Adelaide Casino ! In
the form of the "poker zone". Like we used to add the
suffix city, to everything, like wind city etc. , the
casion likes to add the word zone.

The poker zone is next to the grandstand bar, and it
comprises of 7 tables, surrounded by a bar / rail,
which allows spectators to view the action. Its pretty
crowded in there, but once your sitting down, your
fine. They kicked it off with a tourney, 60ppl , $50+$15,
which is a bit steep on the rake.

Went and put our names down on the omaha list, went to dinner
at rigonis, then came back. There was little chance of
them starting omaha, but they had lots of 4-8 holdem
going. So had to transfer our names on teh 4-8 list.
Took a while to get on, but as the tourney progressed and they
lost a table, they'd add a new 4-8 table.

Chad got dispatched by himself to some table, which had a couple
of matchroom guys. Barter and I got put on the new table,
which could prolly not have consisted with ppl who had less idea.

First hand small blind calls, big blind checks no one else
is in the hand. Flop comes A-J-8. Small blind bets, Big
blind calls. Turn comes a 5. SB checks, BB checks. River
comes a 4. Now the SB, says i check and turns over his cards.
But the BB hasnt checked yet. So he looks at the SB's cards
who has turned them over. Then the BB decides to make a bet.
The SB says i check. The BB looks at the cards again, takes
his bet back. The SB has turned over 2-3 for the nut straight,
the dealer asks him wheether he can beat the straight. He
says no. Dealer pushes chips to the SB, and he says oh i thouhgt
you had the straight. Barter and I are looking at each other
trying not to laugh out aloud.

Anyway it was amateur hour there, but you still need cards,
we didnt win or lose much, tho chad did ok. Anyway its
reasonably well organised, and should be interesting to see
the standard of play in future weeks. Perhaps u need to play 10-20 to
get anything resembling a game...
 
Sunday, July 17, 2005
  We are the champions !
If you are an australian, then you can say "WE" proudly
have the WORLD CHAMPION OF POKER. I mean can this
country be any greater ? We produce the most beautiful
women in the universe , i really didnt know how
that worked out, i mean are other galaxies represented.
They're ships on the way ? May be thats what independence
day is about, bunch of ugly aliens , pissed off they
werent invited too the miss universe pageant. Fair enuff,
perhaps blowing up the earth was a bit extreme, but we'll
invite u next year. Ok , so we have Miss Universe (no offence
other galaxies), and now we have the WORLD CHAMPION OF POKER!
Amazing, are words that dont even come close to
describing his achievement. Whilst i was desperately close
to making it to vegas, and wish i could have been there,
to participate, the disapointment was largely washed away to
see an Australian dance through a field of 5600 and
trump, and it still is surreal.

I listenened to the entire 14 hour live broadcast on Saturday, and wow,
he did really well. Every time he raised, basically someone would come
over the top. He was getting drilled, but somehow he hung in
there had a piece of luck , took down some key pots and evenutally
was the champion. The final hand was great, calls a small raise pre-flop
flops a straight, gets the guy to hit top pair A on the turn, and
put all his money drawing dead.

I was hoping that Andrew Black from Ireland, would win, the guy
lost a massive pot in 97 world series to eventual winner stu ungar,
disapered for 5 years became a buddist. Came back recently, dominating
over europe, then played unbeliveavebly well . He put a 4th
re-raise with a-2 against ivey. Called a massive pot with 9-10, on
9-6-2, and the guy sucked out with 2nd pair(a-6) and hit A on the river.
Absolute BS. He deserved so much more.

But the great thing esp. about the last 2 champions are they are
true gentlemens of the spot. Lets face it , Arieh who came 3rd,
in 2004 would be the worst world champion to have, as would Mattusow,
the guy whilst entertaining is just such a chump sometimes. Sits
there table talking on big hands where he is not involved.
But Raymer has been a great boon for the sport, and i hope Aussie Joe,
is just as good, coz he seems like it. It seems nice guys finish first at
poker! Go Australia !!!
 
  The Bubble
Ok back to whats being going on in the world.

Lets just take a step back, recently I was
accused of living in a bubble. As in
a " A protective, often isolating envelope or cover"
previously i was living on the bubble "an annoying
position in poker which takes you to the closest
point without winning anything, ie. the ultimate
loser" But during that period i slipped from outside
the bubble into the bubble. Its like being in
a nutshell.

As a result of being in this bubble, i was
isolated from some of the major world events.
"Major" events is somewhat of a term which is
thrown around quite loosely i believe, there
are so many , how can they all be major ? At
some point these major events have to become minor
events, and at that point Im forgiven for not
knowing about them. So i was at lunch, and ppl
were talking about Live 8. There is a classic
saying my teacher told us at school "it is is
better to keep your mouth shut, and let people
think your a fool, than to open it and reveal
all doubt". This would be one instance where
i would have been best served to apply this rule.
You see i didn't know anything about Live 8? And
ppl at lunch thought i was joking, but each subsequent
question just showed how deep i was in the bubble,
and they were shocked. In fact the only thing i had
heard of live 8 was when i saw it was in the tv guide
and assumed it was another reality show . But
after finding out it was G8 related, it would
seem unlikely that it was reality tv show.

Unless it was something like, G8 meets BB:

USA (bush): "id like to vote Jacque Chiraq for 2 points.

BB: "you have to give a reason ?"

USA (bush): "well when we're in the kitchen during lunch,
he brings out these really smelly cheeses, and he doesnt
clean up properly afterwards, and the utensils still have
these smelly cheesy parts on the knives and other cutlery,
plus he has that really annoying French laugh. Also he
is a little hostile, yesterday he told Tony Blair, his country
had the second worst food in europe behind switzerland, i
mean who eats frogs legs and brains anyway, he is so hypocritical."

BB: How does this make you feel ?

USA (bush): Well , it makes it hard for me to express myself,
and he is also too intelligent for me, so i find it hard to
relate to what he is saying. I asked him the other day, and
I said are you with me or against me ? And he said sometimes
i will be with you, other times i will be against you. Like
what the hell does that mean anyway? He said there is a thing
called a grey area. I said like my hair ? And he just left.
I hate the french...

BB: Ok you can leave now george.

USA (bush): One more thing BB, with these automatic sliding doors,
it feels a lot like a space ship sometimes, and you sound a
lot like Leonard Nimoy , is that you Leonard ?
(bush apporached the camera)

BB: Leave !!!

USA (bush) : sorry ....

Is the bubble that bad , i wonder ? Well ok i missed out on
a couple of events. I wonder whether all that singing made
a difference, i dont see why they couldnt raise money at the
same time as well, kill 2 birds with one stone. Ok wat they
collect dwarfs into insifinicance in relation to the debt,
but still its something.

I now read www.news.com.au more regularly, i used to read
it all the time, except that was when i worked and i had
more time then. So feel free to talk to me about current
events, im hip, im cool.
 
  Who wants $50 ??!!!
This doesnt follow on from the last post, but ill
pay $50 poker money if someone tidys up my kitchen
and cleans my dishes. Due
to my ill crippled state and straining my neck,
i really can't be bothered and have no energy,
and its getting out of control.

$50 - clean dishes - today(Monday 18/7) !!!
Easy money, i know thats 1/2 some ppl's rent.
For like 30mins work.

Person must be enuthusiastic, and prior
experience is preferred.

Be first to comment - to secure this is exciting job.
 
  So wats the deal
Alright no blog posts in a while. Anyway i havent
got a lot to report, which is sad, but mainly
due to being struck down with the plague. Well
perhaps it was not 'THE' plague, but it was plague
like.

I wonder what the plague was like, it sounds so
evil and contagious. I guess this was just a flu,
fever , cough , cold, etc etc. thing. So since
i havent being doing a lot, may as well talk
about other things going on...
 
Sunday, July 03, 2005
  101
if anyone wants 101, tonite - monday.
then reply and ill see.
If there are enuff ppl
for a game , perhaps a game.
 





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