I have had a nice little upswing both live and online. I spent about 4 days in Melbourne playing 2-3 NL and went up 12 buy ins on the 200 table. The games were exceptional and the timing was great with the Rugby League Grand Final on at the same time.
Online I went up 2k. I entered some tournaments where friends bought percentages of me. My gains have mainly been in cash games with most of my tournaments blanking out. Luckily, I have had people buying good percentages of me in tournaments. Overall in tournaments I lost very little due to staking and actually gained in some arrangements.
Crown is by far the best place to play cash games live in a casino in Australia. There are great restaurants and places to go out all around Southbank. Crown makes it easy. If I had the choice I wouldn't spend too much time in a casino but that is just where the poker games are hosted. I learnt at home reading books, playing online and with friends.
I stayed with friends at a place in Kew which wasn't too far from everything. We played a couple of home games. One home game was in Kew and another was with a mix of people in St. Kilda. Later that night I went down to Sandringham to meet a friend from bowls and catch up.
We hired a car and spent any down time watching Entourage, Family Guy and other movies like Watchmen on the big screen. Alex's place in Kew had wireless internet so we played online throughout the house.
I had to fly back to Sydney to play in the NSW Open at Taren Point on Wednesday. After getting ko'd in the fours I stayed at a friends place in Glebe. I met up with a friend at The Rocks and then a few different bowls friends in the city. I went to a chocolate house in The Rocks and then went out to George St and met up with the group at the Three Wise Monkeys.
The next morning I gave my friend a lift to the airport and drove down to Wollongong to meet up and crash at my mates hotel. We went for dinner at the Novotel. He is a state sales manager and he once recommended The Novotel on North Beach to me, to take out a girl for Valentine's Day dinner which went down well. Our dinner was great, we got to catch up and we went back and watched some TV and I accidentally registered a Pot Limit Hold'em cash game table on stars and about 5 hands in stacked someone for 400usd. Good Life.
The last 7 days have been exceptional and I don't expect this to happen all the time but it truly has been sweet. Having the money gave me the freedom to move around and do what I liked. I visited my Nan and Pop on the way back home from Wollongong which was fantastic. Nanna Mac told me a couple of stories from when she baby sat me which made me laugh and her snort:)
As a kid I liked things to be done properly and whenever she was getting tired she would try to skip a page in a book to get to sleep early. Not on my watch! 'Nanna', I would say, 'You missed a page, start again!'
She also recalled how I was certain that it was 'Banana's in Byjama's' because of course that made more sense than Banana's in Pyjama's! Stubborn as I was I went and got out Dad's big dictionary, well the A to K half, and carried it in my arms to Nan to look up 'Byjama'. I remember it being heavy (I think I was 5). Unfortunately, after making my Nan go through all of the 'B' section, she convinced me to go and get the other half and look under 'P' with her. I was astounded, 'It does start with a P!'
Thank you to all those family members and close ones who have been patient with me over the years. It seems I have been stubborn from a young age and have needed very wise and patient people to guide me:)
Tomorrow our club team is flying to Wagga for an important Premier League game. If the weather holds off tonight we have practice. We lost our last 3 games against tough opposition, but we still have some finals chance if we win on the road.
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