October Goals – Earn 62,000 VPPs – Play 25,000 Hands < 6 Players – Start reading/posting in 6-max forums – Finish real estate investment book – $3,000 of sports wagering at BetCRIS – Repair my bike for the summer – Take first wicket at cricket – Score first runs at cricket – Improve my diet – 6 hours a week at gym – Migrate web sites to new servers and email SEOs September Goals Passed [...]

Yesterday I attended to the 2008 AFL Grand Final between the Hawthorn Hawks and the Geelong Cats. For international readers the Grand Final is the equivalent of the NFL Superbowl. Australian Rules is the biggest and most popular code of football in the country and tickets to the game are very hard to come by. There were 100,012 people at the Melbourne Cricket Ground yesterday, the first six figure attendance since the 80s. I don’t [...]

The cricket season starts next week and in preparation I went on a bit of a shopping spree today to pick up some gear. Today was the final day of this clearance sale they have each year locally. It’s basically a factory in the middle of an industrial area where you jsut rock up and they just sell cricket gear at very good prices. I picked up full white uniform, cricket shoes complete with rubber [...]

Rohan and I played a session at Party Poker the other day with a couple of $2/$4 and $5/$10 full ring NL tables that were running Sunday afternoon. If you are going to take a shot at a higher limit a great way to do it is with someone of similar experience by your side, sharing the decision making process and making sure you don’t change your usual thought process much or let the money [...]

Okay I realise there is a few hands and situations here to digest, but I would be interested to hear everyone’s thoughts on these spots. For the most part I’m assuming AA, KK are mandatory stack offs in all these situations, where it gets interesting is when you have <=QQ or flop top pair or something. Additionally, are you just completely giving up with hands like AK and AQ when you miss? I think its [...]