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2009

Published on 2009-01-01 07:36:00

New Year, new resolutions I will probably not keep but one is to get back into blogging so it starts here.The first target had been to go back to Australia for the Millions but online qualification has not gone well ! I may have to settle for Deauville for the EPT tournament there in January as I have made it into a final qualifier for that on Poker770 next weekend.Since my last post in March I have been to Las Vegas for the WSOP main event so I will work on a review of my experience there for

Day Four

Published on 2008-03-03 08:01:00

I enter Day Four knowing I have won a minimum of 65,000 AUD and if I can go back to surviving ahead of four players I can get to 100,000 AUD and then get aggressive. In hindsight I played my worst poker of the tournament on day four.Chip leader on my table is Max Bracht with 837,000 and I am in third but after only an hour have lost over 100,000 in blinds and antes, raising once with AQ but getting no callers. Alexander Kostritsyn however, starting the day on 366,000 gets involved in hands righ

Day Three

Published on 2008-03-01 08:16:00

What am I thinking at the start of Day Three ? I want to survive (that word again) into the top 80 and take home some money. It’s nice to win these ‘free’ holidays but I need to start converting them into hard cash !The biggest name on my table is Kenna James on 114,500 but the table chip leader is Alexander Kostritsyn on 398,500 and one player, Jim Sachinidis, has just less than me on 28,500. Now even I know I won’t make the money without playing a hand or two and I decide to make a mov

Day Two

Published on 2008-02-27 16:51:00

So now I’ve got two days off and we are kept entertained by ‘Mad Marty’ Wilson and Katherine Hartree on a trip to Williamstown on the Tuesday. The day ends with a game of poker in a pub back in Melbourne, playing in their Pub Poker league and resulting in my first ever win in any live tournament. I keep the cash prize – spending the 25 AUD behind the bar on a round for several of the other players – but graciously give up the chance of a 21,000 mile round trip to return for the regiona

Not sure I believed it .......

Published on 2008-02-25 15:42:00

....... but on 21st November I posted that I was "half-way to Oz" and on 23rd November I won the opportunity to go the whole way by winning the weekly Aussie Millions final on Blue Square !So on 11th January I travelled to Melbourne to play in the Aussie Millions and what follows is my report leading up to and including Day One of the tournament :-It’s a long way is Australia, especially if you haven’t been before like me (not that it gets any closer if you go a second time). 12 hours to Hon

Good Luck

Published on 2007-12-19 16:52:00

I've got a few posts to make but this item came up just today so it has jumped the queue :-North Yorkshire trainer Brian Rothwell is set to stand down from running his own operation and join the team of champion trainer Aidan O'Brien in what he describes as “the job of a lifetime”.Wexford-born Rothwell, 44, who has been training for 16 years, has put on the market his Arthington Barn House stables at Nawton, near Helmsley, and expects to wind up his business before the renewal date for licen

Happy as Larry

Published on 2007-11-21 17:53:00

Mentioned the above phrase at work this morning (that place we never talk about) and a colleague looked up its origins on t'internet.Several on there apparently but we settled for the Australian / New Zealand option of it referring to a boxer called Larry Foley :-There’s a suggestion that it comes from the name of the nineteenth-century Australian boxer Larry Foley (1847-1917), though why he was especially happy nobody now seems able to say. Perhaps he won a lot of contests? (He was certainly

Half-way to Oz

Published on 2007-11-21 17:12:00

....... not really, but sort of !Encouraged by the success of Washman of PL qualifying for the Aussie Millions in January I thought I would try the same route he had.A buy-in of $50 + $5 on Blue Square into the satellite daily final with only 11 players tonight (presumably due to the alternative attraction of the football) to qualify for the weekly final which has one seat guaranteed.Only 11 players including one sit-out but still took only five minutes less than two hours to get through it. The

We were there

Published on 2007-11-11 05:25:00

Had a good day racing at Doncaster yesterday, although not profitable (2 seconds and a third).Well done to both jockeys who share the title for this year, especially Jamie Spencer in the end who had to ride the last winner of the flat season to draw level again.Some bookies pay out on a single winner using the number of second places to decide and that title goes to Seb Sanders, who celebrated by travelling on to Wolverhampton to ride the winner of the last race there at 9.20pm !

Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag

Published on 2007-11-08 19:03:00