last night was interesting, I was playing blackjack with Michael a mate of mine. After 30min I was up $350 and was getting quiet pissed, then all of a sudden this guy (who was built like a tank) walks up to the table and slams a 10 green backs on the table. I look at him and think fuck I know this dude. Sure enough I catch a glimpse of his ear, but it wasn't there. Then it all clicked it was Chopper Read, a famous retired bikie in Australia. Now days he writes children's books!!

Any way after 10min of chatting to him Michael says (quite loudly mind you) "DUDE WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR EAR, DID TYSON GET A HOLD OF YOU?" As he was saying this I was punching him in the arm telling him to shut up and shitting myself at the same time, sure enough chopper was good about it and told him it got bit off in prison and then he bought a round of drinks. As it turns out he is a really nice guy and tells one hell of a story.

The poker has been quiet for me lately, haven't had the motivation to sit down and play. I have played golf a few times this week, shot 77 and 74 at riversdale of the members tees which I was happy about. This weekend I am going to go play Albert Park, which is supposed to be quiet nice and then hit the green felt at the crown. I will let you guys know who it all goes.

Well last night was the final table of the main event of the melbourne poker champs. I played in 3 events and played ok in the 200k event, couldn't win a race the hole event. had AK 3 times against mid pockets and couldn't hit and i got knocked out with pocket jacks vs. KQ offsuit. Needless to say I was gutted.

The Omaha Hi/Lo was a great game and event to play in. I had allot of fun and meet some really nice people.

The main event I played SO SO SO bad. I donked off 60% of stack with in the first 4 levels. Then I got delt kings in the small blind and run into aces. So it was torny over. Which was probably a blessing anyway, after being knocked out I sat in the 2/3 nl game and picked up $700. So i was pretty happy coming home on friday night.

On Saturday I learnt the hardest lesson I have ever learnt in my life. I hit a 2 outer on the river against this really nice old guy, I felt so bad I wanted to give him his money back. He took off and said something in greek or italian not too sure. But after a hour he returned and sat down, didn't say a word but he was out to get me. Every pot I was in he was right there with me, I end up getting all my chips in with him when I had a set of 10's against his set of ducks. Sure enough the turn was the case duck, I was gutted. But what made this worse was the cock sucker then stood up and started making fun me and abusing me in greek or italian. I wanted to thump this prick right in the nose, I could not believe it a nice old guy then he turns into this cock head. So the lesson i learnt was NEVER EVER fell sorry for sucking out on someone.

After all this just to top things off Leeds United got beat in the promotion playoff spot last night loosing to Doncaster 1 - nil. GOD DAMM YOU LEEDS

Wow, I can't belive I havn't played more Omaha Hi/Lo. This is a great game, a game which I found very easy to understand. Unfortinatly for me my torny ended when I run into the nuts. I fell I played well, I had one very interesting bloke at my table Curley Seal. Curley is a bookmaker from Adelaide, two blokes from Sydney stung him on a rort for approx 300k. He is a really nice guy.

I also had the pleasure of meeting Joe and Tony Hachem last night. Joe was very polite and well spoken, Tony is a very out there type of guy. He seems like the bloke thats wants to be mates with everyone. I have a photo of Joe and myself which I will put on the site in the near future.

I am really looking forward to tonight, the 100k event starts tonght at 1910. I am hoping to be on top of my game and cash for the first time this championships.

Last night I wittnessed the worst poker to have ever been played, it was in event 1 of the the melbourne poker chaps. I caught the action with 5 players left. The short stack had 3 BB ( and was fold to a raise on his BB) the big stack had 10 BB and was playing so careful it wasn't funny. One bloke put 60% of his stack in the middle 3 times and layed it down to a shove. What was this idiot playing?

It was the worst hour of poker i have ever seen. It was a disgrace to the poker world that the bloke what won did win. they where all so bad.

i am off to play now and may play in event 3 the PL event tonight

After writing my last entre, instead of going to bed I thought I would go get some breakfast on southbank. So I went to Greco (which was AMAZING) the american bacon was to die for.

Anyway after breakfast i decided to walk down and see what the game was like, sure enough I see this one table with 4 blokes I was playing with at 6pm the evening before. They where pouring the beers down as fast as they where at 6pm (which was a great effort I thought) so I sat down and the 3rd hand in I pick up pocket queens, UTG who is blind drunk and cant see past his nose grabs a hand full of chips ($60) and drops them in the middle, everyone else folds except for his drunking weed of a mate who was in the cut says "your a fuck head, you got nothing" and throughs all his chips ($127) in the middle. So i shove, the blinds fold and the twat UTG calls. We turn the cards up, UTG has J4s and his mate has Q10o. So my kings are looking good, flop comes KQ4 rainbow, the turn is a Q and would't you fucking know it, the river was the case Q. Then they had the nerve to sit there and give me shit about playing the hand the way that I did.

So I bought back in won half a buyin back and went to bed.