Big music week - Once & Leonard Cohen

Big real life winner this week. I wrote before about an Irish movie called Once - Boy meets Girl and share a love of music. Anyway Boy and Girl came to the Concert Hall at the Opera House this week (sold out) and I rocked up and scored cheap tickets for what was a great gig. True life story of busker comes good. Hard to top that you'd think, but ...

Thursday sees Leonard Cohen in town. Not sold out so a chance of picking up cheap tickets as they were $190 a pop. Couldn't believe that no-one showed up with an extra ticket. A far cry from slipping a couple of quid in with a ticket stub to get into FA Cup Finals. I always had plan B which was to buy them from the ticket office. To make matters worse, there were two of us. Missed Paul Kelly the Support Band, but just as the interval was starting, who would appear but the iconic Aussie Scot, Barnsie. "Jimmy, any spare tickets". "Stay there lad, you may be in luck" I must say that he is a real gentleman. Anyway Row BB, Seat 1 was virtually on the stage, and free. Concert was amazing. At 76, Leonard is still the real McCoy.

Poker was pretty much reduced to a live session at the Casino for my free parking. Broke even, which to me is a win given the 10% rake and my relatively novice stage in poker maturity. The big players have a lot of gamble in them when you see them play. I watched the $500/$1000 BI table and they had on average $6000 in front of them with $5/$10 blinds, that's a lot of post flop play. With $500 bets not uncommon, that was the TAGgiest live table I've ever seen. They were all regulars and are now off to Adelaide for the ANZPT.

As for the weekend, Friday is Home Game night but I haven't heard from anyone, so I'm not sure if it is on. Sunday I'd like to play in a $200 PLO Tourney at Star City. Need to see how well I can advance my domestic duties in the interim.