I’m writing this blog from Newmanmi’s kitchen table after a week of hanging out with him, pwnchizzle and RaiderDuck. It’s been fun as always, but at the same time a sad reminder that we were all holidaying in tropical North Queensland this time a year ago without a care in the world. So much has changed in our worlds has changed since April 15th, 2011. Pwnchizzle is only chilling with us when he’s not busy [...]

Full Tilt report exonerates Alderney gambling regulator A report into the Alderney gambling regulator’s handling of the besieged Full Tilt Poker website has found it was “appropriate, timely and fair”. Its author, Peter Dean, said the episode was “an example of regulation working as it should”. He said the Alderney Gambling Control Commission had “conducted the ‘fit and proper’ tests with appropriate rigour”. The commission revoked the online firm’s licence in September after claims of [...]

Poker October was a pretty grueling month, apart from my success playing live I was pretty disappointed with it. It’s kind of a weird time of year in general for me, footy season is over and cricket hasn’t really started and I don’t have a lot of distractions outside of poker. I think next year I might look to do some traveling at around this time. A while back I posted about having some concentration/blurred [...]

Poker In September I continued my discipline when it came to reviewing my sessions and being honest with self-analysis. I was kind of disappointed with the volume I put it though and that I didn’t use my time not playing to relax as much as I should have as well. In October I’d like to get back to playing some serious volume as well as work on really improving my game away from the table. [...]

Poker August was an interesting month, to say the least. I started off playing really poorly and not having a lot of things going my way. I fought through that though and I’m especially proud of the way I a) kept showing up every session with a really great attitude and b) kept working on my game away from the tables, in particular constant hand reviews. It would have been easy for me to pack [...]