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In Hong Kong

Melbourne was really fun. We took a drive down with Shane, a mate of my dads down Great Ocean Road and had a load of beers (home brew) while cruising along the coast. The flies were fairly unbearable but we were treated to a pretty sick view of the 12 apostles (actually only about 7).

After that we went to Big Day Out which is some music festival and saw Kasabian, Muse, Lily, Dizzee and a touch of Calvin Harris/Groove Armarda. Was good fun esp Lily/Dizzee, personally think Muse are a bit overrated live but the lighting was impressive.

Then we went to the tennis to see Serena beat some Asian bird. I won $40 on props vs Sweir, then saw Henin destroy some other Asian bird. Next day we saw bit of mixed doubles/womens doubles final which was cool before seeing Federer obliterate some French darkie.

After that was the 6 max tourney. I had a really bad table made worse when a fairly decent player got replaced by Tommo. I made an awful call of LuckyChewys river check raise, made another bad call with KK on AxQxT, he 3 bet pre I flatted, I c/c flop and river. Then I knocked out Steve who was staying with us with AT vs A8. Then a Scandie came and sat down, he seemed like a bit of a headcase so I flatted J9s out of SB when he opens CO, 953, check call, 5 (gives me FD too), check call, Q, check call and win vs T4o. So was up to 11k on first break but gave them straight back to him where he raise CO, I flat A9o OTB, T9ssX, he bets I call, turn T, he bets 1500~ into 2k~, I call, river a blank I call 3.5k into 5k and lose to T8o. Poss a bad call given that I already called him down semi light although I justified it with the other calling station in the house Steve and he said he woulda SNAP called. So i’d been nitting it up since the tables tough and I didn’t fancy playing Chewy, Tommo and aggro Scandie postflop, I raise 33 UTG+1 and it gets thru, then I open 88 UTG to 550, the Scandie pops it to 1200 from BB, I jam in 7k which is probs bad but the guy was certifiably nuts even if I had been tight and he calls w AA and wins.

Sweir went deep and came 9th after losing an epic KK vs 77 against Leo Margets (she also went on to 2 outer Bond18 at the FT) which sucked massively cos he was chip leader with 24 left after day 1 and chip leader with 11 left on day 2… I also busted the $550 turbo, I raise AJs UTG, BTN flats, everyone at the table has downs syndrome so i’m not too worried especially after the flop comes AJT. I bet he raises I jam he calls w AK and wins.

We did hit up the clubs in the Crown which were pretty cool despite Mongys dubious preference of the dubstephiphopdnbdance club over the cheese/rock/pop one. Nevertheless I encouraged the boys to get some Jaegerbombs down ourselves so we could open up the potential to spend the morning vomming in the toilet and it was a pretty good night overall.

I’m now in Hong Kong and met up with Sweirs uni mates yday and chilled out. We went to an American diner and Tommo got some meat+rice dish which he is trying to palm off as Chinese food. He didn’t manage to stomach any noodles or rice for breakfast this morning though.

Probably off for cocktails somewhere tonight or something, not sure yet. We were going to go to the PEAK but it’s pretty foggy outside so we went to a shopping mall where I bought some trackies. MARVELLOUS

Rupert Elder : 02 Feb 2010 08:16 |  Tags: Aussie Open Australia Dizzee Rascal Hk Lily Allen Poker Serena Williams |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem