A-A both red.

The Shawshank Redemption
Fight Club
Lord of the Rings series
The Godfather
The Matrix
Zoolander
Not Another Teen Movie
Eurotrip

Many others but too many to name.

Primarily lots of rock, more old than new. Most genres really, generally not country or opera though.

I don't have a single favourite... but I enjoy many fiction works, mostly action/adventure, crime related books and thrillers. Non-fiction wise, I've been meaning to start reading some good auto-biographies.

I'm an 18 year old student living in Melbourne, Australia about to begin University/College, in which I am studying Commerce and Law as a double degree. The rest... ask me.

First played in some very casual $10 buy-in "cash games" at a friend's house in 2004. Gradually began playing tournaments with friends throughout 2005, and taught myself some of the nuances of the game, as well as starting to watch shows like World Poker Tour.

Last year (2006 I mean) I honed my game through reading more about poker theory, and through more and more practice, began to improve my reads on other players, as well as knowledge of the game. Also began playing online, and joined a local poker league, in which I finished as the top player at the club for the Season, and only being disallowed from competing in a State-Wide tournament because my underage status was discovered :S

Turning 18 recently I dipped my feet in the minimum $1/$2 No Limit Hold'em game at Crown Casino in my hometown, in which I'm slightly down after my first two sessions. I plan to study full-time at University for the next 5 years, holding a part-time job if possible, and hopefully improving my poker game enormously as time goes by.

Maybe not my worst beat ever... but this was pretty frustrating.

I don't remember the cards really... but I was the biggest stack by a small margin but in a home tournament with 4 or 5 remaining players. I open-raised to 2.5 times BB with unsuited connectors in the small blind. BB folds as well as any others who have called the big blind except one very wild player.

The Flop gave me an open-ended straight draw, and I check-called a small bet. I didn't feel like I was up against anything greater than a pair, if that, as the board was lacking in anything but a very vague straight draw, unless of course you had my two connectors. The blinds were substantial enough already that the pot odds were giving me the right price to call a small bet.

The Turn brought me the nut straight, and also the second diamond on the board, to go with the rainbow that was seen on the flop. I thought nothing of the diamond, as only a complete maniac would chase a flush draw with 3-to-the-flush at the flop. I checked to attempt to trap my opponent, sure that my hand had him absolutely dominated, but hoping to get an idea of his strength. He bet out a sizeable amount, which of course excited me, and after some pondering, I decided to minimum raise him, suspecting he had a high wired-pair and hoping to get maximum value out of him. He called almost immediately, and I hid my excitement.

The River brought a total blank, or so I thought. It was a 3rd diamond, but I reasoned no player with any mind at all could have been drawing at the flush. The action on me first, I decided to check into my opponent, who I hoped would get greedy. The pot by this point was quite large, myself having invested more than half of my chips. Following my check, my opponent immediately went all in without batting an eyelid. Having done most of my thinking up to the river, I called with my nut straight, entirely sure I had my friend beat. To my utter surprise, I was showed me a queen high flush. Noting that he had not even made a pair for the entire hand, I just shook my head and soon went into a verbal tirade against him. He said he felt lucky but admitted he played it badly, really badly -_-

That lost hand decimated my stack, and made him the overwhelming chip leader at the table. I was eliminated a few hands later by him... and of course, he outdrew me when he was a 2:1 dog versus my Ace-9 when the money was in preflop, himself holding King-2 or something like that. He ended up coming 2nd after all, squandering his big lead by playing way too loose with his monster stack.

Pretty sick... but I know of worse.

Poker
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Squash
Cricket
Table Tennis
Snooker