The Victorian Championships

Most self respecting sports fans should be fully immersed in the Olympics by now. There has been a spectacular opening ceremony, a new world record for the men’s 100m and an open slanging match between the Aussies and the Brits.

When it comes to sports, the former are rather too used to spanking the latter and so the Aussies are currently finding Britain’s high gold medal tally hard to swallow. They have scoffed that the Brits can only win at sports that allow them to sit down. The BBC responded last night by ending their Olympics highlights package with a montage of colourful chairs to the musical backdrop of ‘Sit Down’ by James.

It appears that Australian poker players are standing up to give their support to their nation’s dismissive comments about British sporting ability as only twenty-six of them sat down to play in the main event of the Victorian Championships, despite a prize pool of AUD260,000.
Perhaps a few of their countrymen were uncomfortable with a game that demands patience, concentration and time sitting down away from the barbeque.

We may never know.

We do know that Sam Yousef’s first place has inflated his bank account by AUD 104,000, a number that is only marginally bigger than the Olympic Village’s allocation of condoms.

Victorian Championships – NL hold ‘em – AUD 10,000 – Crown Casino

1. Sam Yousef – AUD 104,000
2. Tino J Lechich – AUD 62,400
3. Kent Hunter - AUD 41,600
4. Josh Ang – AUD 31,200
5. Julias Colman – AUD 20,800