Ask someone in Australia what they think of when September rolls around and they may say the end of winter and beginning of spring. Ask an American and they may tell you it is the end of summer and beginning of autumn (or fall, if you will). Ask an online poker player and they will … Read more →

It’s been a strange couple of weeks. Strange in that there has been an enormous abundance (comparative to recent times) for me of live poker, no limit hold’em and tournament poker and contrasty a stark lack of online poker, cash games and pot limit omaha. The second bit of strangeness comes from the fact that I have … Read more →

It’s 5am here in Queenstown – as good a time as any to blog. The last 24 hours has been one great experience after another. Starting at 10:30am was the PokerStars Frisbee Golf Tournament – and despite the frighteningly early start to the event my newfound love for the sport ensured I wasn’t going to … Read more →

I’m proud to be a member of Team PokerStars Online. Along with myself, the fastest poker player in the world Randy ‘nanonoko’ Lew and twitter wizard and MTT specialist Shane ‘shaniac’ Schleger, we make up some of the biggest names in online poker.   Now, you will have a chance to test your skills against me … Read more →

Let me start by apologising for my third consecutive poker-related post in a row. Crazy. You’d think this was a poker blog or something. Given my life this month though there really is nothing else to report on. This month has been nothing. but. poker. Nine days ago I was a fifth of the way … Read more →

At the end of every tournament series you will see the exact same thing every time: 95% of people will be tired, burnt out, frustrated, and will have lost money. The other 5% will range from being fairly happy to utterly ecstatic over their results. Unfortunately this WCOOP saw me fall into the former category, … Read more →

So it’s that time of year again, the WCOOP is in town. For those of you who don’t know the WCOOP is the World Championship of Online Poker – a series of tournaments held on PokerStars that spans approximately 3 weeks in early Spring (or Autumn depending which side of the world you’re on) each … Read more →

I’m going to delay the posting of beautiful photos of sunny Mexican beaches and bright turquoise waters and instead bore you all with some poker nonsense. Wait, what kind of a blog is this again? May & June were some pretty brutal months and involved the biggest downswing I’ve had so far this year — … Read more →