Monthly Archives: January 2012

I played this hand in my latest session at Jupiter’s Casino on the Gold Coast on Saturday. And this will be the last hand I play at that casino – in fact it’s probably my last session of live poker … Continue reading →

(Part two of my poker-tennis analogy) Last time I explained how professional tennis is a game of “winners”:  whoever hits the most will usually take down the match. But the tennis that the rest of us play is a game … Continue reading →

It’s caption competition time again. But before that, here’s the password to the Freddie Mays tournament at 8pm tonight: djokovic Onto this week’s competition and keeping with the week’s tennis theme I found this pic. They say you know you’re … Continue reading →

Take any poker player at the end of the month or the end of the year and ask him:  “would you rather have won more or lost less in that period?” and you will very likely get the answer “I … Continue reading →

Keeping in theme with Eoghan O’Dea’s tennis betting blogs I’ve got a tennis related poll of the week for you. While I was in Sydney I was introduced to a friend of a friend who told me that he was a … Continue reading →

Last Thursday and yesterday I told you how a Canadian chap I met in Brazil told me that the best game of poker in the whole world (as in easiest to beat) took place at Surfer’s Paradise on the Gold … Continue reading →

Last Thursday I wrote that my challenge was simple – find the game – beat the game. At that point in time I was still trying to find the game, wandering around Surfers Paradise and the Gold Coast getting sunburned. … Continue reading →

It’s caption competition time again. But before that, here’s the password to the Freddie Mays tournament at 8pm tonight: surfersp The tournament might well start at 8pm start where you reside but I can assure you it is nothing like a social … Continue reading →

Find the game, beat the game. That’s how the saying goes. And today the operative word has been “finding”.  I’ve bailed from Sydney and I’m now in Surfer’s Paradise on the Gold Coast, Queensland. And I’m here to play poker. … Continue reading →