Aus: kickin' Perth

Tue May 30th 01:47:38 2006 *

Been in Perth almost a month now. Can't believe how fast time flies here.

Why is it the vast majority of internet cafes are severely lacking in the cafe department?

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Snoop wants to borrow a bitch

Sun Apr 30th 19:23:01 2006 *

rahah.

This girl I been seeing lately works at a clothes shop at Heathrow.. where Snoop Dogg was arrested for some shit. Anyway he walks into Timberland and starts checking her out, and asks if she would like to be in one of his videos.. and gives her his number.

Not all that surprising, she's incredibly stunning.

He can have her but fuck I want that number. I'm thinking of all the shit I could do with that!


In other news I'm now done with poker. Cashed out my loot. Gay USD has fucking dropped like a whore the past couple of weeks and is now hanging around 1.8, costing me a few days wages, in equivalence to me actually working..

Anyhoo I managed to get a good price of around 1.6 so I've got a wad sitting in the bank.

It's been an adventure. I've played at over 60 different sites and went from playing $10NL to using $10 as the big blind at my highest point of $1000NL games.

I'm set financially for the next 6 months. I have no need to work, no real commitments, I can do whatever I like.

What's a player to do..

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My Blogs Look Shit Without Titles

Thu Apr 6th 08:20:14 2006 *

Played my first tournament for about 6 months last night. I'm on a new start-up site and there wasn't many cash tables running so I decided to play in their $600 guaranteed freeroll. Then when it started I remembered I hate tournaments, and I'm really bad at them, so decided to sit out.

About 1.5hrs or so later I come back to find I'm still in, with an ok amount of chips, I go allin in LP with J9s, lose, have about 170 in chips left, go allin again with a suited ace and double up, again with a pocket pair right after and then another hand I've forgot. Had doubled up a few times now and was at about half the average chips.

Now I had some chips to play I decided I'd give it a go, still about 60 players remaining (about 100 started) so I played real ABC poker and made it to the final table.

Well, I ended up getting heads-up and he had about a 2:3 chip lead, but he was pretty awful and even with my extremely limited HU experience I knew I could take him. Eventually I win a few pots and I have about 100k to his 30k... then the client crashes, whole computer freezes up and I have to restart (before I restarted I saw myself get dealt KK as he raised...) anyway by the time I get back on I now have under 30k with the blinds pretty big, I pick a hand with top pair and move in.. he calls with Q high.. river brings a fourth heart to the board and I'm out.

Seriously gay, I got $114 for 2nd and first was $174, it's not about the extra $60 it's the fact that he was a complete donkey and won, I can't stand that.

Also a lot of the cash game players were railing the final table and now they know I'm final table material it might scare them off from sitting in cash with me :/


Annyhoo, in other news I finally gave in and became 'one of those'.. and bought an ipod.

It's pretty sweet and I was surprised I was allowed to get the engraving of "if i paid for music... i couldn't afford an ipod", albeit it arrived with a "don't steal music." sticker over it.

I toyed with a few other engravings... such as a "finger A minor" guitar chord, and some arabic writing with "bomb" being the only readable word, but I might have some trouble in airports and the like with those..

Turned it into an external drive and installed SharePod so I can transfer music to/from using any computer, put in CDex for CD ripping and a lightweight bittorrent client, completely self sufficient and portable law breaker.


Wow, when you select a category, and then decide to not use a category, you can't, 'None' disappears as an option, and have to select one of your categories, that's no good.

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Click

Fri Mar 31st 12:49:46 2006 *

This is the greatest thread ever.

"what are the odds I suck at sex and what are the odds my penis is just much, much too large?"

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Poker: wow

Mon Feb 27th 14:05:26 2006 *

On the most disgusting run of cards in my life right now.

Just started this session up to see if maybe the tide had turned, yeah right. After a couple of hands I flop a set, dude has higher set and takes my buy-in.

Couple hands later I have KK in LP, raise it up 4x, limper before me re-raises, I re-raise and then push, he flips over AA and takes a buy-in.

Out $200 in 10 minutes, was out $300 yesterday, and a hell of a lot more than that the day before.

Poker is pretty sick.

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Poker: 

Sat Feb 4th 08:51:39 2006 *

'The Corporation' is apparently now up about $2.2-2.3 million, after being down around $3 million since day 1.

They're actually playing $50k/$100k because they're worried Andy Beal is going to double the stakes once he gets behind (like he did before) so they've given themselves some room to breath.

Any and all poker players should be willing The Corp to win, if Beal wins and takes $10 million off the pros that's $10 million taken from the poker community, and money trickles down to players like myself, one day I might win a small part of that $10 million!


Bad variance has started to hit these past few days, it's so cruel the way the cards just start laughing at you, giving you the second best hand time after time. I've lost about 6 buy-ins from some really harsh hands, recouped about 60% of that back from smaller pots, but the bigger pots aren't going my way at all so I'm going to quit playing for the next few days.

I still need to make money though so I'm probably going to hit up some Blackjack bonuses over the next few days. Obviously Blackjack is a -EV game that you can never win at, but by playing Basic Strategy you can lower the house edge enough that, with bonuses on top, you can draw a good profit.

Played with Daniel Negreanu last night. Hold'em wasn't going well as stated so I jumped in a $5-$5 short-handed PLO game with him on PokerRoom. Didn't get involved in any big pots with him - seeing as he 5x'd every hand preflop - but on one pot, with massive pot odds I moved in for $75 or so which I won when I rivered a second Jack to take a $322 pot. I left straight afterwards!

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It's on!

Wed Feb 1st 10:04:28 2006 *

The biggest cash game in history is getting underway soon!

Andy Beal, multi-Billionnaire, has challenged the top poker pros of the world to play him, with one stipulation - massive stakes.

Open Letter from Andy Beal

Todd Brunson has accepted and is going to play Andy Beal in $100,000/$200,000 Limit Hold'em tonight.

The stakes are real, this Billionnaire could break the top pros of the world.

With stakes that high, it isn't so much about skill as picking a pro that can play his game without thinking about just how much of their, and fellow pros' money is at stake.

Article Link.

As a comparison, the biggest Limit stakes I've played is $5/$10 ...

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Poker: and that's January

Tue Jan 31st 18:28:33 2006 *

Here's some figures.

Current Bankroll: $4,356.54 (£2,450.95).
On the month: +$3,170.84 (£1,865.20).

Average Daily $107 (£60).


$50nl & $100nl full buy-ins are my main games, probably 70/30, but I'm working my way in.

Today I withdrew a couple hundred £s. I have the luxury of having my 'poker money' in dollars, so when I'm playing it's not like real money, it's just some graphics representing funny money, so why would I worry about sticking $80 in on the turn with an Ace High?

What the hell is $80 anyway, £0.03? Oh crap it's 45 quid, but it's not really.. is it?

To withdraw that money into real money it's a surreal feeling, "wow it's real, this shit really works."

I'm earning atleast double what I would at a regular job at my age/work experience/etc and putting in about half the hours, into something that's fun.

I have no delusions though.

Poker isn't a long term thing, it's a way to make some easy money for an easy life in the short term. Online poker won't be anything like it is now in 5 years time. With 80%(+) of the players losing money, they either learn to win or quit playing. Having said that, people still Blackjack and Craps..

I have a goal in mind for how much I want to make, then it'll be on to something new.

Apart from paying some rent and other shit I've had to shell out for, I haven't bought myself anything yet. I've put myself on a £20/wk wage.

Been looking at a guitar I'd quite like to get, nothing too fancy, we'll have to see.

In the meantime, I'm fucking rich. Down the cathouse for me.

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Do you have the stones...

Tue Jan 10th 22:40:52 2006 *

To bet $100 on a hand of blackjack when it counts?



Would you like insurance?

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Poker: Happy New Year!!

Sun Jan 8th 21:28:31 2006 *

On the 7th I had a real bad day. Very short 7am session saw me down around $140 :/ I played like a donk and deserved it.

By the end of the day I managed to claw back around $70 to make a total deficit of $70 on the day, not good, but could have been a whole lot worse.


Ordered a second monitor so I can 8-table easier, my current set up is basically 4 each corner, 2 horizontal and 2 vertical, but it's not good for anything other than ABC poker.

I've mainly stuck to 4 tables this week and it's paid off, made some plays that impressed myself, having longer to watch the other players has helped a lot.

Mainly playing $50 buy-in tables now (I buy-in for $30) and a couple soft $0.15/$0.25 ($25 buy-in) tables when they're going. I don't think I can deal with losing 3 $50 buy-ins in a session just yet.

Most of this week was done at one very soft site, one table tonight had a player/flop of around 70%, it stayed like that for 2-3 hours allowing me to skim off +4.5 buy-ins.

Played a couple orbits at $0.5/$1.0 ($100 buy-in). They're certainly beatable, but those limits will be off the menu for a while yet.

Bankroll at $1,855.69 (+$669.99 for the month (so far..)).

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