Tomorrow Emmy and I head off on our three week long road trip that will see us driving to Brisbane, flying to Cairns and back and then driving back to Melbourne via Sydney. Our first port of call will be the Victoria and NSW border towns of Echuca/Moama. My Grandma lives up there, so we will be staying with her for two nights. I will be showing Emmy all the places I used to visit [...]

This was a special qualifying tournament to celebrate the first Aussie winner of the PokerStars Sunday million last week. They added 5 free seats to the satellite, which made it well and truly worth playing. Unfortunately, my foray into qualifying lasted all of three hands. Poker Stars, $20 + $2 NL Hold’em Tournament, 10/20 Blinds, 7 Players LeggoPoker.com – Hand History Converter MP: 1,500 CO: 1,490 Hero (BTN): 1,470 SB: 1,510 BB: 1,530 UTG: 1,500 [...]

Round 1, 2008 After winning at Subiaco late last year you would think that I would have had more faith coming into the game that the Lions could pull of an upset. My doubts about our ability to win in Perth against the Eagles were confirmed when the Eagles took an early 38 to 8 lead into Qtr time. Brisbane looked down and out and already in my head I was processing the dissapointment of [...]

Melbourne Storm vs. Cronulla Sharks I went to the match again this week and it was by far the worst game I have seen to Storm play in a very long time. They weren’t their usual defensive brick wall, the were ill-discipline and gave away heaps of penalties, they had too much dropped ball and failed to threaten in attack. They went behind 14-0 early, but from that point on the Sharks didn’t really get [...]

Thought I’d start blogging about some of my favourite YouTube videos. I guess I’ll make this my first one. To me, this guy is absolutely amazing. I first saw him on Conan O’Brien and remember thinking he was pretty cool, then recently he toured Australia and I was reminded of him. Make sure you give it a chance, because the end is by far my favourite part.