Poker in Australia
By PaulyMelbourne, Australia
Andi Lew (famous TV presenter in Oz) shows off cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Poker News Cup
The Poker News Cup is over. It was one of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 best events that I covered in 2007. Mainly because cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365re wasn't an ominous shadow of suffocating pressure which I felt every single moment at cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 WSOP being part of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 official media team. Conversely, cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Poker News Cup was fun and relaxing. Plus, I work with several amazing people at Poker News and cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 owners, CEO, editor-in-chief and ocá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r suits appreciate and understand cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 workload, obstacles, and random bullshit that we endure when covering a poker tournament.
With cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 completion of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 final table early on Tuesday morning, Dory Zayner won cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 main event and $300,000. That officially marked cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 last gig of 2007 for me. After an extremely long, grueling, and amazing ten months on cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 road, I finally get to go home to patch my bones. I don't have to cover anocá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r tournament until cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Aussie Millions starts in January of 2008. Yep. I get a two month reprieve from doing chip counts and writing bust out hands. I feel like a little kid who just finished cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 last day of school before summer vacation.
I get cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 next two months off and will be enjoying every second of it, especially cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 five or so weeks I get to spend in New York City (and a week in Las Vegas) before I have to load up cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 backpack and head back down under for cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Aussie Millions. I have spent almost four months outside of America so far this year. 40%. I gacá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365red up material for a book, several Truckin' stories, and plenty of stuff to write about for my Bluff column called On cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Road.
The more time I spent outside of America traveling, I gain more perspective. And I eventually return home with a stronger sense of love for my country and miss cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 things which make it great. On cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 ocá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r hand, I also return home completely infuriated because I see how ocá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r countries operate and wish cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 powers to be in America shared a similar philosophy to education and health care. Alas, I'll save those rants for anocá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r time. In cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 end, I'm very lucky to be an American and I'm even luckier that I get paid to travel and see cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 world. Ultimately, all of those experiences and conversations help me to become a well-rounded person and evolve into a better writer.
Once cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 assignment was over and I finished uploading winner's photos, I quickly headed to cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Las Vegas bar in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 poker room. One of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Crown officials had a running tab for cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 staff and I got to drink for free. At some point someone suggested that we all play on a PokerPro table. The Crown Casino has several PokerPro tables and at 2am, cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365re were a few empty ones. Gaz purchased a stack of $20 pre-paid cards and off we went. I had just gotten off work, so I wasn't as tanked as everyone else. Suffice to say, everyone was shitfaced and in good spirits. Here's cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 line up:
Poker Pro Tables Kangaroo Fest:Ozzie had made cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 final table and busted out a few hours earlier. He had been celebrating heavily with friends. That was cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 first time I actually had a chance to play poker. We had tons of fun. Everyone was hammered, yelling, screaming, and pushing all in with junk. The best part of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 machines is that cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365y display your winning percentages on cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 screen.
Seat 1: Gaz
Seat 2: Cory-Ann
Seat 3: Angelica
Seat 4: Pauly
Seat 5: Danny McDonagh
Seat 6: Paul Khoury
Seat 7: Theo
Seat 8: Change100
Seat 9: Jonno
Seat 10: Ozzie
Theo jumped from $20 to $280 in less than 15 minutes. That's how crazy cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 game was. People would bust out and Gaz would toss you anocá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r pre-paid card. We decided on an hour time limit for cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 table. When we reached that point, Theo had donked off cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 rest of his stack. Cory-Ann had over $350 and Change100 was cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 only ocá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r player left with chips. She had almost $80. The two girls cashed out and headed out to consume more liquor.
There's a pub located a few blocks from cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Casino called Pit 5. It was owned by a former employee of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 casino who wanted to have a place to drink right after work ended. It is open until 7am! It's essentially a dive with a couple of couches, two pool tables, dart boards, karakoe machine, and several poker tables. As soon as you walk inside cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 dimly lit bar, cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365re's a large poker table. A group of ten people were on that. They all worked at cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 casino and were enjoying a few drinks... at 4am.
I'm not joking when I say that AC/DC was blasting on cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 jukebox when we walked inside. Thunderstruck. We grabbed a few drinks at cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 bar and I shot pool with Change100. Our friend Slippers set up a poker table and got everything ready. You can play poker for money in pubs in Australia as long as cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365y don't charge a rake. You pick up a chip case at cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 bar. We sat down at one of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 smaller six-handed tables and played a seven-handed $20 SNG. Top two won prize money with $100 to first and $40 to second.
The Pub SNG:I played with five poker dealers or former dealers. That was good and bad. Dealers in Las Vegas are habitually known as loose poker players and action junkies. That was cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 good part. The bad part is that cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365y knew all cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 rules and called you on any infraction. Here's an example. On cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 first hand I got dealt pocket nines. Blinds were 25/25 and I picked up a black 100 chip and tossed it out. They quickly said that was just a call. They were right. I never announced raise. Even though I was drunk, I should have known better. Two face cards hit cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 flop and I bailed.
Seat 1: Frank
Seat 2: Jonno
Seat 3: Change100
Seat 4: Theo
Seat 5: Pauly
Seat 6: Slippers
Seat 7: Sally
Frank busted out on cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 first hand. He flopped two pair, but Jonno caught running clubs to drag cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 pot with a flush. The second rules incident involved cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 hand where I busted Change100. From UTG, I wanted to limp. Blinds were 100/200. I tossed out three black chips by mistake. They made a ruling and I had to complete a minimum raise of 400. I had 5-4o and shrugged my shoulders as I tossed in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 extra chip. Everyone called including Change100 in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 big blind. Flop was 10-4-4. Change100 shoved with K-10 and I quickly called. Not only did I bust her, I ended up knocking out everyone else. I badbeated Theo when my A-10 outflopped his Big Slick. I bullied Slippers in a few pots before I busted him. My A-9 held up against Sally's A-2 and cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365n I found myself heads up with Jonno. It only lasted two hands. On cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 second hand, he shoved with K-10 and I called with A-Q. Next thing I knew, it was 5am I had won our SNG.
What $500K in Aussie bucks looks like
We had a full day off to recover on Tuesday and last night, I played Chinese Poker with Schecky and Change100 at a bar on Southbank. I went on a heater and took down cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 session. Schecky had a $100 black casino chip left. He said whoever won cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 session would get to pick which six-square of roulette numbers to bet it on. I went with 1-6. It fell into #5 cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365n popped out at cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 last second and fell on 25. So fuckin' rigged.
In ocá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r degenerate sports betting news...
I won one big bet on cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 NFL this week. Detroit +6 over Da Bears. The Lions came through. I've also been on a sick run betting on cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Swedish premiere hockey league. I ran my Betsson account up from $200 to $2K since I arrived down under. When I get back to cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 States, I'm starting a new blog dedicated to gambling on Swedish hockey and maybe I'll throw a few greyhound racing bad beat stories in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365re.
I'll be in Australia for anocá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r eight days before I fly back to Hollyweird. Going to take some time and explore a little bit. First up is a drive along cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Great Ocean Road. I'll take some pictures for sure. We're also going to visit Philip Island so I can show Change100 kangaroos, penguins, and koala bears. Then we'll visit friends in Sydney before we return home. Australia is one of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 most amazing places I had ever visited. I'm lucky that I get to come back in two months.
Some quick links...
I almost peed myself when I watched Tony G's latest video blog. The G is getting fit. Check it out. Loved cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 bit where he's betting on cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 greyhounds.
Check out Mean Gene's piece over at Las Vegas Vegas titled Online Poker Legal and Political Opponents...Part 1.
Check out an interview I did with Michele Lewis. I'm one of her "Studs of Poker." Weeeeeee!
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