All entries for Saturday 16 January 2010

In Melbourne

Arrived safe and sound in Melbourne after an epic 36 hours of travelling. The flights went surprisingly smoothly, I managed to do off £63 on a plug adapter in the airport (!!) so I could use my laptop in flight and was delighted to find out that it was complete superfluous since we could plug laptops straight into the seat. Undeterred, myself and Keys played football manager with gin and tonics for the majority of the first flight before mostly sleeping/trying to sleep on the second. I did manage to slip in a cheeky viewing of “Cloudy with a chance of meatballs” which was mediocre at best.

The apartment here is gorgeous, a huuuuge living room/kitchen combo with 2 balconies leading onto a barbeque and a fantastic view of Ivanhoe and surrounding areas. We did manage to lock ourselves out when we got back from the donkament at 2am last night which required a $30 call out fee from some mug upstairs.

Speaking of donkaments, I busted the $1.1k. Very happy with how I played, chipped up to 14k after flopping top set with kings vs some old guy who made second pair and went to war. Then played a hand at 150/300/25, UTG+2 limps playing about 5k, I make it 1100, young asian guy on my left calls who is playing well, limper calls. K9x, checks through, turn K, UTG+2 leads 1100 into bout 3.9k, I just flat as does the guy on my left. River is irrelevant, UTG+2 checks and I bet 5.7k into 7.2k, guy on my left tanks for a while and calls w jacks. Then I lost AJ vs AT and TT vs AJ to bust me.

Considered playing again today (day 1a/1b bustouts can play 1c again) but I woke up after it started. Playing a pokerpro $550 tomorrow which is basically like online poker but live. Should be fun!

Rupert Elder : 16 Jan 2010 03:09 |  Tags: Australia Live Donkament Poker |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem