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I felt like another swim Friday night, but I played well in my first round match against the Gimpsland State Champion. So no swim for me! The conditions in RACV were top notch. On Friday, I arrived 5 min late and got penalized 1 frame. After a few shots, I found my cueing straight away. Potting everything and level at 1-1. In the next 2 frames, R.Tibbs showed that hes not a Gimp, making 45+ and 50+ in the next 2 frames and went ahead 3-1. In the fifth, I had a solid frame and won easily. In the 6th, it was very scrappy but my long potting got me over the line. In the decider, it was very close. There was some controversy as the referee didn't call Foul&Miss on my opponent, on the last red. He missed it by like 6 inches+ off 1 cushion, but the ref had been calling it everytime through out the match. Where's the consistency? At that time I cracked it! R.Tibbs pot a good long red and sat nicely on the colour. All he need was up to the brown. He pot the pink, then yellow and then fluked the green. Then he choked on the brown. After that I managed to pot out and won on the black ( OK! I fluked on the blue).

This morning I played my coach Slowvari, but I lost 4-0 to him. I played very average and didn't have much chances. My long potting were OK, safety play was good but my positional play was nothing but crap. I couldn't control the cue ball within half table, so I didn't make any breaks. Deserved to lose 4-0.

Went back home, but too tired heading to The POND. A couple of days ago, PS sent me a gift. They really miss me! I deposited $50 and mucked around, managed to triple up within 20 hands in 25c/50c PLO. Then donked away $20 in the other table but that's fine for me. Busted my FullRig account but that's OK, I got nothing in it.

Superman has been running hot lately. He used 63 FPP and turned it into W$530 at PS. After that he sold all his $W for US$470. First he used 3 FPP and won a STEP 1 ticket thru MTT. Then he also used 60 FPP and won another STEP 1 ticket thru SNG. He managed to roll all the way to STEP 4 using those 2 tickets. Instead of playing in the STEP 5, he registered into some $215 satellite and won a seat in a $530 WCOOP EVENT. Obviously he had no intention to play in it, so swapped to $W and took the cash. As far as I know, he already busted in a $109 NLH tournament and lost $100+ in cash table ($1/$2 NL) in 1 hand. His Pokerrng was working, he had 78off and the software showed the board will have 9 10 J. So he called the button raise from the SB and flop 9 10 10. He check/call button's flop bet and J on the turn (no flush). He checked raise shoved on the turn and button called with 9 10. DDDRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!

Willis season starts next week. First match will be against Master Gee's team with KO Master, Grand Master, Sam Fishy and Neverlose in it. Should be interesting! More interestingly, Daniel Sklansky's B grade team has been named King's Full. Good Luck to them, and I hope they do well. Otherwise by the end of the season they will be stucked with just King High!