February Goals – 20k VPPs at PokerStars – More than 50% of play at 400nl+ – Watch 20 training videos – 15k hands 6 or less players – Run 40kms – Get properly fitted orthotics – Come up with a timeline for purchasing a house January Goals Passed With Flying Colours, Could Have Done Better, Failed – 34k VPPs at PokerStars – Extreme Fitness – Lots of gym, runs, and gut-busting physical activity – Release [...]

For Australia Day this year we went to the Australian Open Tennis at Melbourne Park. The tournament is into its second week, so most of the big singles matches are being played in the two main arenas, but there was still plenty of matches and stuff to see on the outside show courts. We took in a bit of doubles action, the legends matches were really entertaining. Sure, the guys are past their prime, but [...]

Poker Haven’t been playing quite as much as I was in the last few months of 2008 and I feel a lot better for it. I’ve been reviewing my hands with regularity and studying pretty hard, which is something I didn’t really get a chance to do late last year. I’m on track to meet my goals for the month and already brainstorming what I want to achieve with February. At this point I’m thinking [...]

This interview just made me realise how much I have in common with Xerxes. Like him, the first time I came into contact with Hold ‘Em was watching Rounders in the late 90s, but it wasn’t until the WPT came out that I got into it. His primary motivation for grinding at the moment is to buy land and build a house and mine is the same. He has a supporting and understanding family much [...]

Tell me a bit about your poker story, how you came to be involved in online poker and what made you choose full-ring no limit games. Well, I’ve been playing for almost 4 years now. I like many got into poker right after the initial “Moneymaker” poker boom. My friends and I during my senior year of high school used to drink beers and just screw around and play small home games. Which were really [...]