Once we were able to check into our room we had a little play around on the net and then napped for a few hours. After that we hit the streets and headed towards the Lisboa Casino. On our way we stopped and watched the fountain show at the Wynn. Inside Lisboa we got completely lost looking for somewhere to eat. We ended up coming across this obscure restaurant and by that stage we were [...]

We have just arrived at our hotel in Macau after a midnight flight out of Melbourne followed by an adventure finding our way from Hong Kong airport to Macau. It is currently 10am local time, so it took about 13 hours to get here. We can’t check-in yet so we are just hanging around in the lobby, which disappointingly doesn’t seem to have wireless. The hotel/casino is very classy though, giant chandeliers and marble all [...]

I predicted this months ago when news of a mandatory filter on Australian internet first came to light. The blacklist of sites was leaked today and low and behold every major poker site is on it. While the legislation is unlikely to be passed, it is still kind of scary that some time in the future some bureaucrat could impose themselves on our online freedoms. I really feel like an online poker ban is political [...]

What is your poker story and what led you to full-ring over other variations of the game? My poker story started with playing freerolls all the time. I used to go to a certain website where it posted freerolls and their times on various sites. I was also involved on a forum, and that’s where I got my first money by winning $20 in their freeroll of 50 people or so. My friends and I [...]

For those of you who don’t know who Rhys Darby is, he is a New Zealand comic who plays band manager Murray Hewitt on the HBO TV show Flight of the Conchords and he was recently in the Jim Carrey movie Yes Man. FOTC is one of my favourite TV shows and without him the show would be nothing, so when I heard he was coming to Melbourne to do stand-up I was keen to [...]