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 [...]

January Goals – 34k VPPs at PokerStars – Extreme Fitness – Lots of gym, runs, and gut-busting physical activity – Release 600k Milestone Bonus – Poker Schema Development – Study hard – Take some shots at $3/$6+ on Non-US Sites and maybe Stars and FTP December Goals Passed With Flying Colours, Could Have Done Better, Failed – Reach 600,000 PokerStars VPP Milestone – Be at 593,000 VPPs by X-mas – $3,000 of sports wagering at [...]

Day 3 of the Boxing Day Test was the worst day of cricket I can ever remember going to (from an Australian point of view). It was so exhausting to sit there and watch such a poor performance unfold. By the time the day was over and we were headed Crown to play a bit of live poker I probably wasn’t in the right frame of mind for it all. Rohan and I just decided [...]

Haven’t done a blog in the while so just thought I’d do one about random life happenings. So Rohan (RaiderDuck) came down from Canberra on Boxing Day and I picked him up at the airport and then we headed straight to the MCG for the first day of the Boxing Day test match between Australia and South Africa. The first day’s play only really had one highlight and that was the Ricky Ponting century, apart [...]