This year has been a BLAST already. I haven’t been updating my blog since I’ve been keeping so busy but to save everybody’s time I’ll just post some photos and what has been going on SO:

The year popped off with a wee house party that was mostly a blur after copious amounts of champagne and gin.

Myself, David, and the jovial Dominik set off on our ADVENTURES starting in the BIG APPLE itself named New York City. We met up with Melanie to tour guide us round wonderful restaurants and jostled us through the blizzardly winds.

Dom devouring an NYC pizza

Empire state of mind

After that we went to that famous European country Bahamas to attempt to win a second (or in rarer cases a first) EPT. We were completely unsuccessful and between us all we could muster was me coming 13th in a 6 max. Which wasn’t even final 2 tables. Yawn.

Sunday grind where I actually did win money

So we hustled our way to Australia which took me a day longer and $2500 more than expected as I missed my flight over. Melanie was there once again having recently announced that she is the new LOCK PRO ELITE (download here). Surprisingly though this doesn’t make her an expert locksmith but a representative of a site on the merge network. A locksmith would have come in handy as David (who denies everything) managed to lose the keys to our apartment before I even got there.

A lot of Australia was consumed by Melanie trying to win a $10k freeroll from Tony G of ON YOUR BIKE fame. She didn’t win the bet, so here is a photo of me attempting to hula hoop.

Even less successful than her unicycle skills (background)

We celebrated Australia day by the beach in St Kilda which was nothing short of lovely.

P3rc4 remembering the good parts of life

Early in the Australia leg Marty (TheLipoFund) and Klink10k (Jason Mo) discovered a restaurant near our house called Hunky Dory’s. Indeed everything was hunky dory with wonderful affordable fresh fish.

We ate a considerable amount of these

Possibly too much

Marty was the most successful across the Australian apartments despite both Marvin and Manig coming close in the $1k rebuy. Manig didn’t actually come that close, but 11th place sounds good! Marty got a last second save in and did what he does best by winning a turbo $500c for $33k.

The bed of champions

The three musketeers soldiered on to Hong Kong to enjoy more drinking related antics as well as a spot of tourism.

Two white boys trying to use chopsticks

The fantastic Sakesan which serves the best cocktails in the world on the mid-level escalators

10000 buddhas. I counted. Not really.

A couple of my faves. REACH FOR THE STARS

Adorable

Windmilling Buddha with a couple of professional windmillers

Peace and tranquillity

Avenue of Stars at night

Bruce Mfkin Lee

One of the more rowdy raves I’ve been to

Skyscraper fetish

U mad?

We went to the peak but it was pretty foggy. Still cool though.

The view from the tram back down

So that’s it. I’m in Venice now for the WPT which I already bust then I’m going to try and win more money playing live and online tournaments LOVING THE GAME!!!!!!! 2012 <3