october results, more usd/aud gheyness…

October was a pretty good month for poker, won about 30k online, lost 10k sports and flips and expenses, and of course, lost another 10k on the USD crash. Tony G called the USD a “3rd-world currency” on his blog, and I think that’s a pretty fair assessment. I’m numbed to the pain now, each month I lose another 10-15k on paper when I calc in AUD, its surreal.

2007 running online stats:

2/4nl - 5.7bb/100
3/6nl - 5.8bb/100
5/10nl - 3.5bb/100
10/20nl - 3.3bb/100 (includes shortstacking)

(other small samples - includes a lot of drunken shortstacking)
15/30nl - minus 2.8bb/100
20/40nl - minus 1.1bb/100
25/50nl - minus 1.6bb/100
50/100nl - minus 40.5bb/100

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Melbourne taxi drivers are nuts. They are the weirdest people ever. I like to sit in the front of taxis as I don’t mind a chat, but Melb taxi drivers are insane, they really freaked me out to the point where I would sit in the back and pretend to be asleep. They make Manila taxi drivers look professional.

My taxi driver to the airport kept going on and on about high finance and giving me his broken English advice about investments and his opinions on all current affairs. He was beyond retarded, I invited him to post on JokerNetwork as he’d fit right in.

My taxi driver to Crown the day before chewed my ears off the entire trip telling me his thoughts on gambling and trying to persuade me to give up this “evil” vice. He told me incredibly boring parables from his native Afghanistan which had no punch-lines and no message apart from “gambling is bad”.

It was good to be back in Australia for a bit, but there is something really weird about the Australian trait of espousing one’s retarded, ignorant (and sometimes racist) views on anyone who’ll listen. I’ve traveled all over the place and its definitely an Australian trait I think. Australia is full of broke people who think they are experts in everything. It would be amusing if it wasn’t so common. Ofc I’m mildly elitist, but surely if you’re stone cold broke and driving a taxi for $12/hour or whatever, isn’t this a massive banner saying “I really have no clue about anything”?

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One Response to “october results, more usd/aud gheyness…”

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1. Was just coming over to leave you a comment to tell you to stop being lazy and get posting, but it seems you’ve beat me to it. I happen to be on the better side of the AUD/USD ‘catastrophe’ having won money in AUD. Couldn’t be a better time to send that home

   Btw, if you could recommened some electro/electro house tracks that’d be great. I’m going to be driving from NY -> FL (~2100km) to get back to school in a month or two and I’ll be doing it in one trip.. need something to keep me energetic

   J

   Comment by Jordan — November 3, 2007 @ 12:02 pm

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