Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter came out earlier this year, which prompted me to reflect on one of my favourite sub-genres of film: the gambling flick. They are an obsession of mine, in part, because so many of these movies …
Deep in the biggest poker satellite* in the history of the southern hemisphere. Thirty-eight spots get a ten thousand dollar ticket to the Main Event of the Aussie millions. They say first place in that will be a cool two …
In a former life I was a poker player. A fairly serious one, at that. For a decade I made a profit at the table, year in and year out. I could have turned pro, and for short stretches of …
I knew something was wrong. Whenever something goes right, I am immediately suspicious, for starters. So back in 2016 when I was nominated for an Aurealis (and ended up winning), had an inclusion in Clarke’s “Best Science Fiction of the …
I used to play a lot of poker. Took it pretty serious, as well: serious enough to make the trip to Vegas in 2009 to play in the World Series of Poker.
I played regularly for about ten years, every …
There must be something in the water down in Australia. The two high roller events for the Aussie Millions – the 100,000k challenge (with re-buys) and the 250,000k (with re-buys) broke all previous field sizes this year, and by a …
Alligator Blood, the true story of Australian entrepreneur, Daniel Tzvetkoff, should have been a compelling read. It has all the ingredients: greed, hubris, extravagant wealth, a dizzying rise followed by a precipitous fall; the noir underbelly of the online porn …
The imminent federal election brings with it the greatest threat to online poker we’ve ever had in Australia.
Online poker has always flown under the radar. It’s technically illegal for companies to offer Australians online poker under the Interactive Gaming …
“There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker. The upper class knows very little about it. Now and then you find ambassadors who have sort of a general knowledge of the game, but the …
There’s good news and bad news. The bad news is that Australia is on the cusp of banning online poker completely. The good news is there is a catch.
As every poker player knows, ‘Black Friday’ was the day in …
