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It’s a bit of a strange period in my life right now. It’s come to my attention that because my relationship with Celina has been dissolved my legal ability to stay in the country of Australia is now very much up in the air. I’ll be calling my immigration lawyer tomorrow to set up a meeting and discuss what my options are (if any) when it comes to staying in the country. Otherwise I’ll have to figure out a new place to live, and at the moment I have no idea where that’d be.

I’ve been talking with my friend StevoL about getting a place together and we checked out an apartment right across from Albert Park a couple days ago. Here’s the link for those who are curious: http://www.realestate.com.au/cgi-bin/rsearch?a=o&id=403404735&f=90&p=30&t=ren&ty=&fmt=&header=&cc=&c=30244994&s=vic&snf=rbs&tm=1229569787
It’s got pretty much everything we’re looking for although I wish the view of the city were a little better, as the picture provided is at an angle you really have to stretch to reach on the balcony. Also, the bathroom in the master bedroom is encased in see through glass, meaning if you had someone over and needed to use the bathroom you’d have to kick them out of the whole room for privacy, which would make for an awkward conversation
“Listen baby, I know you’re exhausted from the 92 orgasms I just gave you, but I need you to slide your sweet ass out of bed and wait outside for a while cause I need to take a monster crap and you’re not gonna wanna be here for this.” Yea, that’ll go well.

Meanwhile, things have been going spectacularly in poker. My first few days back I blanked out but after that I’ve hit a massive streak of positive variance. In my last five days of play I’ve hit scores of $5600 for 1st, $5600 for 2nd, $18,000 for 6th, $5300 for 1st, and $8000 for a tie for first in an Aussie Millions satellite. I’ve been extremely productive in creating Pokersavvy videos and managed to get back to a lot of old PM’s sitting in my mail boxes. I’ve recently gotten an avalanche of new ones, many of which I plan to respond to tomorrow since I’ll be working most of the day. I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, anyone who reads this is free to PM me with whatever questions they have, as long as they don’t mind the possibility of my going AWOL on the response for up to a couple weeks (though because I’m at my computer much more lately my response time is normally within a couple days.)

Every now and then someone will PM me and ask why I write the strategy articles I do, or why I’m willing to answer people’s questions without any real monetary motivation or compensation, or continue to post thoughts on 2+2. While standing in line at ‘Subway’ today I read a quote attributed to George Bernard Shaw that summed up my thoughts on the topic rather well
“If I have an apple and you have an apple and we exchange apples we each have just one apple, but if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange ideas we each have two ideas.”
To me, the knowledge I have isn’t something I own. It’s not for my personal keeping and profit. I’ll never learn anything keeping all my thoughts to myself, because without those with differing experiences and knowledge giving feedback, thoughts, and edits, I’ll never be able to improve. I’m not quite smart enough to figure all these things out on my own, and pretty much every ounce of poker knowledge in my head was the original thought of someone else. As a result, I’ve been thinking about how to approach the poker book I plan on turning my articles into. It’s occurred to me lately that finding a publisher for a poker strategy book full of vulgarity and absurdist humor will likely be no easy task. As a result, I’ve decided that if after finishing it and submitting it to various outlets they aren’t interested, I’ll simply turn it into an Ebook and release it for free. Then when people read it and point out where I’ve fucked up, I’ll really learn something.

Oh, and for those of you who tell me to stop writing this stuff and educating the masses I have only this to say; Quit bitching you lazy bastards. Odds are you’re smarter than me and can probably figure out a way to counteract what I’m imparting if you just apply a little effort. Poker is constantly evolving and so too should your own game. As if you didn’t get your poker education from external sources anyway.