“My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure”
Tony Abbott
It was awfully nice for Tony Abbott to come into bat for the ‘forgotten families’ of Australia. You know, because families never …
The scandals keep coming in the online poker world. Just when you think it couldn’t get any worse, karma hits the industry with a fucking gut-shot on the river.
The major events of recent weeks are as follows – …
Someone is trying to fuck with Australian online poker players. In my last article, I discussed poker’s ‘Black Friday’ – the banning of online poker in the USA. In that piece, I was relatively optimistic about the future of …
On Friday, 15 April, the US Department of Justice swooped. The three biggest online poker sites in the world – Fulltilt Poker, Pokerstars and Ultimate Bet, were closed to American players and their online accounts seized. In the Federal indictment, …
The sounds of the contest rises to a fever pitch – the roar of the crowd joins the simultaneous stomping of feet 
on the wooden floor, the thuds of body ramming into body and those bodies hitting the hard gymnasium …
Poker is a game that glorifies dishonesty. It is a game where the lie has been raised to an art form. And I do mean art. Anyone who watched Phil Ivey 5-bet bluff Peter Jackson with Queen-high at the Monte …
I stare at the monitor. It is blank. Utterly non-responsive. This is the second time I’ve broken the laptop.
I’ve just smashed the keyboard with my fist after losing with QQ v A2 on the bubble of a World Series …
So the World Series has a day for the ladies: a 1000 dollar buy-in, ‘women only’ no-limit hold ‘em event. In the past I had mild indifference to this. I sort of felt like it I was a throwback to …
I type “Razztard” into the ‘player notes’. My opponent has done something stupid. This is my very clever name for a bad Razz player. I have a number of clever short-names like this; “Moron”, “SpasticStation”, “Checking raising C*nt” and “Bad …
