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It really is the best tournament series. My entire day was a breeze. I woke up and played my normal 7ish hours of tournaments and unfortunately didn’t make any final tables. After that I went for a brief run, its briefness being uncommon these days as I’m constantly at Albert Park for 45 minutes an evening. I organized a dinner amongst a number of groups of friend, which wound up being 10 going out to Koreana BBQ in Richmond.

That’s right; the Aussie Millions is only a week away. Less actually, five days if we must get super technical. As I’ve mentioned somewhere in the area of infinity times, the Aussie Millions is my absolute favorite tournament series of the year. It’s a great three weeks because on top of having a great tournament schedule all my friends will be in the same place during the best month of the year in Melbourne.

There’s no reason for me to be hung over. I wasn’t even that drunk last night. I sat around the casino for hours waiting to sober up drinking water and eating food so I could drive home legally, constantly going back to the breathalyzer machine hoping it’d read .05. I mean seriously .05, you pussy ass Australians, where I come from its .1, I thought you people were a nation of drunks and moderately proud of that? Where’s your national sense of adventure?

note: cross posted from Andrew's blog at http://www.thinkingpoker.net/Blog/

It never ceases to amuse me when my mistakes make me money. Here I meant to bet $99 on the river and accidentally bet $9. The result was inducing a huge check-raise bluff from a hand that almost certainly would have folded to my intended bet:

Full Tilt Poker, $3/$6 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players

BTN: $705
SB: $1,359.35
Hero (BB): $1,230
UTG: $1,336.25
MP: $600
CO: $1,828

Pre-Flop: Ac 7c dealt to Hero (BB)

I frequently get PM’s asking for coaching and staking. These days I do basically zero staking (though I do buy percentages of people now and then) and minimum coaching, almost never in the traditional sense (mostly people come over and watch me play and ask questions.) However, my friend StevoL and I are always on the look out for the next perfect horse-student.

I wake up at around 1pm on Christmas “morning”. It looks about 30 degrees Celsius outside and I go for a run in the heat. When I get back I call Alex and ask him for directions to his house for the BBQ. I assure him I’ll bring the Afghan white rhino blend my friend has hooked me up with for coaching him at poker.

So just as a heads up to everyone else. I attempted to make a $6,000 transfer on AP right before they moved to Cereus. I am certain of this. However, after a couple weeks now I went to check in on it and there is no record of the request or the transfer and the other player didnt get it. So I thought I must have just somehow forgot or dreamed it, even though I definitely remember doing it. So then I audited my account and $5,040 is completely gone from my account with no record.

I had the appointment with my immigration lawyer yesterday. I laid out the whole situation for him and asked how it would be possible for me to stay in Australia legally. As it turns out, it won’t be very hard at all. First of all, the two year visa I was given under Celina’s sponsorship still applies despite the fact that we’ve broken up. That means I have roughly another year of absolutely zero visa concerns.

Looks like cable and internet will be back on for good as of tonight. Was actually a good break from poker during this winter madness, had some good time out with my friends and family as well as finally closing on my condo. PCA is coming up and after that I am planning on playing a lot of live events in 2009, likely LAPC and maybe Bay 101. Going to formulate a pretty lengthy list soon. Going to try to record tonight as I'll be playing the $1k and some other stuff. Talk soon.

Another non poker entry today.