Grinded the Main Event all day, was chip leader around 70k at one point. Lost a buncha chips with a superdraw, down to about 50bb at 150/300, lost A9 to 66 on A96cc to Sirens. Busto!!!
At least I… nope, there’s no silver lining. FML (obv should have played rush poker for high scores all day)
Note: the Australian service industry is awful. Every meal takes 3 hours, the waiters don’t get tipped so they have no incentive to check on your table or make sure the wait isn’t interminable. Even Nobu is tainted by this. EVEN NOBU!!!
American football in Australia: Dani, Emil, Brian and Bond18 vs. me, Joe Tall (w/ Entity subbing after a valiant 2 hours of play), sthief and BalugaWhale:
Last night I ate chinese food with circus performers.
I know, I know, you’re prob thinking “Uhh, standard?” but even though my FTP avatar is the clown doesn’t mean I actually gallivant around with tightrope walkers and contortionists.
The gf and I are in Irvine, CA for two days before Aussie Millions and as luck would have it, Kooza was in town, and as luck would have it, our mutual friend Meetu has been living the Cirque du Soleil life for the past year traveling around and singing in it. So we went, and it was awesome. So far I’m 3/3 on awesome Cirque shows (LOVE and O being the others) – highly recommend seeing one of these bad boys if you get a chance (if only to familiarize yourself with the epic empire Guy Laliberte has built for himself). The plot of this one is standardly surrealist – boy + kite + dog enter world of clowns, dancing skeletons and demons. And boy learns acrobatics! Highlight: THE WHEEL OF DEATH:
So after it was over, we met Meetu backstage and got a tour of circus life that ended up with the three of us on a coach bus with the whole troupe to a Chinese restaurant where we ate and asked many, many questions about life in Cirque du Soleil. I’m sure I came off like a total noob but I’m not gonna lie — there have been many a day where I’ve stared into my clown avatar’s smiling face and wondered what if… Probably a function of all that carnival music I blast when I’m blogging.
AUSTRALIA HERE I COME! (Australian clown told us that it was 110 degrees in Melbourne the other day, sayonara icy NYC!!!)
