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Name Doctor Straight
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| Haymarket Hotel Opening Night Winner: Doctor Straight | 2009 11 10 11:46 pm | Tonight I celebrated the opening of the new poker room in the Martini Bar of the Haymarket Hotel in the best possible way, winning a 9 player, $110 Sit and Go. After a couple of false starts, with the opening pushed back by a week and then a fortnight, the venue finally got under way. The Martini Bar really looks the part, with superb tables, lighting, bar and lounge areas. For those who appreciate a bit of class and opulence in their poker venue, check out the Haymarket Hotel. With nine players sitting around a nice Sin City table, and a dealer provided, it felt a bit like the big game from the movie Casino Royale, although with slightly less at stake! On to the action itself. Tricky player Josh ran KK into AA in the early stages and failed to improve. SinCityAdmin and Alcoop lost their stacks when their KK and A4 met JT on a board of 356, the JT having little going for it except runner runner flush. The flush Ace on the turn took SinCityAdmin to the brink, a flush rag on the river sent Alcoop to the rail and SCA to a desperatley small stack which I relieved him of shortly after. The nice Asian man who'd made a highly questionable call against Paul's KK flop push played quieter after this massive pot, and ended up heads up against me. Earlier I'd busted fourth place's A8 with my TT, and third place bet into my A7 on a flop of AJ7 and I called, called, called him out of the tournament. Heads up against a Payoff Wizard was right where I wanted to be. In the final hand he had two shots at flush and gutshot straight outs, but the board blanked twice to leave my middle pair the winner and produce the venue's first cry of "Send It!". I stayed out of trouble throughout the tournament, folding hands preflop and getting well out of the way of missed flops. I probably only won half a dozen big pots in the tournament, but they were all crucial and I had the cards in all of them. I felt like I was on the right side of the gambling situations all night. I've had some success at opening nights, I remember a few January's ago I was the first winner of the $150 ultra deepstack "JTURDS" game though a few January's ago is a long time between drinks! It remains to be seen whether the bigger players come and turn Haymarket Hotel Tuesday nights into a real action joint. For now, Haymarket has a great chance of establishing itself as the Central City venue for medium sized tournaments on a Tuesday night. |
| Doctor Straight looking for Tasmanian poker action | 2009 10 01 04:58 pm | I'll be in Mole Creek near Deloraine for a few nights next week and I'm looking for some poker action while I'm in Tassie. If anyone knows of any games around that area on the following nights please post here or message me on PNW and I'll give you some contact details or otherwise get back to me. Thurs 8th Oct Fri 9th Oct Sat 10th Oct Sun 11th Oct Mon 12th Oct Tues 13th Oct I'll probably bring my brother along with me, who now lives in Tasmania and is an absolute fish. |
| Tiltasaurus on TV | 2009 09 07 11:22 pm | Donna came into my lounge room for the first time this evening in sumptuous black and white. She explained that to be successful at poker, you have to be a bit sassy and she had what it takes to be Australia's Poker Star. Good luck Donna! |
| Queenslander John Sendit well placed in British Open | 2009 07 17 02:52 pm | GREG Norman may have played the worst in his life last night, but leading Aussie John Sendit has credited the Shark with inspiring his game - albeit 22 years ago. Norman shot seven over with five bogeys and two double bogeys in the British Open first round on Thursday while Sendit has set himself up with a string of birdies to be a finals contender for the jug. He and fellow Aussie Matt Goggin are just two shots off the pace, carding a four under-par 66. But the 38-year-old Sendit has recalled watching a different Norman at Turnberry in 1986 on television in Brisbane and thinking that was the way he hoped to play one day. "As a young professional we were inspired by Greg Norman's ability to play the game at the highest level, he was a great man, a great player to watch," Sendit said ahead of yesterday's Open round. Sendit said Norman gave younger players hope that they could one day wear a green jacket or hold a major trophy. He said in 1994 he came to Turnberry as a spectator outside the ropes watching the likes of Norman, Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson practising together. It was his first trip to a links course. Fifteen years later and it is Norman who is being bundled out of the tournament and his fellow Queenslander Sendit being talked about as a potential to topping the leaders board ahead of Sunday. |
| Doctor Straight's New Zealand Poker Tour | 2009 04 30 03:46 pm | You can read all about my recent South Island of New Zealand poker tour in this Friday's Australian Poker Weekly, on Newsstands May 1st. Giving the tiltboys a run for their money, I play poker in Christchurch, bust out in Dunedin but get back on the horse in Queenstown. The report is illustrated with an "only in New Zealand" photo. |
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