Mingling in Melbourne

• After recuperating back in Sydney for a couple of days following my whirlwind Europe trip, I made the short trip down to Melbourne to play in the Melbourne Poker Championships. I was slated to play in four no limit hold’em events starting with the $230 100k guaranteed tournament, followed by the ANZPT Melbourne main event, the $550 six-handed […]

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Czech-mate

• The trip from Austria’s capital city Vienna to Prague took four and a half hours by train. I had my first interesting experience of life in the Czech Republic when I withdrew some money from the ATM machine at the train station. I was approached by an old man who I presumed asked if I could give him money […]

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Boogie nights in Austria

• Hello again from Europe as I travel on the train to the Czech Republic – more specifically Prague, reflecting on my time in Austria. The trip from Ljubljana to Vienna was a long one; Just over six hours. I made the short trip from the Sudbahnhof (Vienna south) train station to my hotel in the […]

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Amazing Slovenia

• After travelling on the night train from Venice into the capital of Slovenia – Ljubljana, I only needed one word to describe the city; Beautiful!  The trip was a four and half hour trip in mostly complete darkness with one main stop near the Italy-Slovenia border in a town called Villa Opicina, where police came […]

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Venice curtain call

• Friday brought about Day 2 in the action of the WPT (World Poker Tour) Venice main event. Some of my friends were still in the remaining 152 players attempting to win the first prize of nearly 400,000 Euros and the coveted bracelet that comes with winning a WPT tournament. 19 year old Mike ‘Timex’ McDonald […]

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Venice adventures

• With the welcome party out of the way, Wednesday meant that it was Day 1A proper of the WPT (World Poker Tour) Venice main event. Most of my buddies were playing that day and I got a grandstand view of their performances from the well-informed media room. It was to be mixed success for my […]

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First impressions of Venice

• Buongiorno a Venezia,
  I am now well and truly settled in Venice and already have some good memories. After nearly 22 hours of flying from Sydney to Dubai in the first part and then from Dubai onto Venice, I had my first adventure in the eastern part of Italy. My taxi driver could speak no […]

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A week of premature exits

• The past week for me has seen another attempt to qualify for ANZPT (Australia New Zealand Poker Tour) Melbourne via the $320 online qualifier followed by two live events during the ANZPT festival of poker in Sydney.
  In the Pokerstars qualifier 54 players bought in meaning that the top five players received packages to the main event in Melbourne […]

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An action packed week…. (part two)

• Sunday gave me another opportunity to qualify for ANZPT (Australia New Zealand Poker Tour) Melbourne as Pokerstars ran their usual satellite to the main event. This time the buyin was $320 and everyone had 3,000 chips at their disposal. 73 players ended up attempting to qualify and this meant that the top seven finishers would get a […]

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An action packed week…. (part one)

• Welcome to another edition of jimdownunder’s weekly blog. This week focuses on more ANZPT (Australia New Zealand Poker Tour) online qualifiers to the event in Melbourne and the beginning of the ANZPT poker festival at Star City casino here in Sydney. But firstly I have some exciting news. During this past week I have finalised the finer details of my trip […]

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