New poker site

While your all online clicking around the various sites check out this new site from Rainns, RainnsPokerDomain.
Its only a new site to the WWW but its going to be huge over the coming weeks, months and years. Gary's indepth knowledge of the game and the people in it means he will be right up there with the other big sites in Australia. The site will contain Videos, Forums, Interviews, Events, News, all the Major Poker Tournaments from around the world including our own Aussie Millions.

Well done Gary and keep up the good work mate.

Playing Poker doesn't mean...

Ok a few things i want to clear up...

Playing poker doesn't make you cool.

Playing poker doesn't make people want to hang around you.

Playing poker doesn't make you rich.

Just because i play poker doesn't mean i care about your poker at all!

Just because i play poker doesn't mean it's my shout at the bar.

Just because you won playing poker doesn't me you have to tell every person you see, especially when it was $20 at a home game, {WSOP wins etc are acceptable}.

Just because you won playing poker on your Playstation doesn't mean your any good.

Just because i invited you to play poker with me doesn't mean i like you, it just means i like your money.

BUT if you play World of Warcraft you ARE a geek!

Chip and a chair... and an internet connection

Ever heard that story of the guy Jack "Treetop" Straus in the 1982 WSOP, he had a chip and a chair and made a massive comeback that started the well known pharse.

Well guys i am proud to tell you its very real and very possible. Tonight in a little 45 player SNG i was short on the bubble of the final table and made a move UTG with J3 and got 2 callers leaving me with $105 in chips.

With blinds at 600/1200 and in seat 7 i managed to play my few little chips into a nice second place finish. And for all those non believers i have the hand history. I am not going to place the whole thing here but i will link you to the first hand and the last hand which gives you player names and tournament IDs.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4470185

Last hand:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4470186

The long wait begins...

Assassin's creed 2 black edition pre orders now! I see the poster at the local game joint as i stroll past. Holy shit! I am in there and paying my deposit without any questions asked. Then i finally decide to ask what my money is getting me and shit its going to be great. Then the big question, "whats the release date mate?" i ask expecting sometime in August for some unknown reason. "November 19th" the reply followed by a quick "time will fly mate". He must have been able to tell by my face how upset i was after getting all worked up over the details of the limited edition set.

Ah well only 129 days left...

PS3 Trophy Battle

I only recently started to give a shit about my PS3 trophys you score when doing bits and pieces like shoot 200 birds in GTA4. I had more than a good mate of mine did and when i figured that out is when it all begun. Playing games just to win these bloody things. Its got me up to 50 hours plus in one game in about 2 weeks. Not good! I sat there and did some bloody driving job for 2 hours so just to win one of these things.

A few days later after the big man does a quick trophy sync to the server i see i am well behind and all thanks to the new Red Alert game that awards trophys for every single mission you complete. Bastard mother f****r, prick ass....

So how can i compete? Buy a similar game. Little Big Planet. Lol 12 trophys in a matter of minutes. I've also gotta steal this red alert game to pick up the few of those easy points.

Game on!

Poker oh yeah playing a little bit too but PS3 is ruling the roost at the moment!

Good luck all on PS3 land and on the felt. Anyone who wants to look me up in the world of PS3 have one guess my username?

Karma in life = Final Tables in poker

Last week after my wife's rep basketball team had a nice win the team decided to go for pizza. With about 25 people there and kids yelling after their win, orders got mixed up and i just knew the bill was going to be messy. Got the the end of the dinner and people started to leave. I got up to pay our share and was last up and as usual in these situations there was a left over amount. Nothing huge just $12 so i told the guy i would pay for it. As a previous business owner i know its hard to take these little bits here and there, before you know it you have lost a days wage for someone. So i paid it and went home, not looking for any thank you or praise from anyone.

Settling in at home on the laptop i saw a nice $7.70 turbo and decided to try my hand at it {no pun intended}. I ended up coming fourth from 800 or so players. Thats nice i thought and then something hit me, no not the wife as it was about 3am. I realised that what i just made more than covered the little extra i forked out at the pizza shop. In fact it would cover 50 pizzas or so. Karma hmmmm i like it, maybe someone got a flat tyre and had to change it in the rain for skipping out on a bit of their bill...

Poker news i have had the for mentioned final table and a few small cashes in MTT and alot of success in 6 max SNGs. Good luck to all the Aussie boys in Vegas for the WSOP ME and a big shout to Mat Hawker who helped me tune a few bits in my game.