2009 Aussie Millions: No Early Nights

Wish I could tell you what day it is. Between coming to you "from the future" and working every day out of the last eleven, I really have no idea.

So it turns out that David Steicke -- the darling of media row after a sick tank-call with ace-high on the bubble of APPT Macau -- won the $100K event last night for $1.2 million (Aussie dollars, but still!). He started his celebration at the bar in the Crown Poker Room. The PN team was enjoying a post-work beer in the same bar and got wrapped up into the festivities. What was supposed to be my first "early" night since I got here turned into a four-hour mini-bender. The lesson I learned was that maintaining a certain level of anonymity is not always a bad thing. And that's all I'll say about that.

Speaking of anonymity, Dennis Huntly -- a local here in Melbourne who took 9th place in the 2007 Aussie Millions for AU$155,000 and has become a fixture on the APPT -- pulled out a twenty-year old magazine that had a photo of him (minus about 100 pounds and plus a porn-stache) that was captioned "Dennis Huntly, Prince of Porn". The rumor surfaced in Sydney that Huntly was one of the founding fathers of mainstream pornography in Australia, and here was the proof. You meet some colorful characters in this business. But then again, I'm the guy who dated a 19-year-old stripper while simultaneously sleeping with her 27-year-old ex-stripper-turned-anal-pornographer sister. Those in glass houses.

For what it's worth, Huntly is a perfectly reasonable chap. I enjoyed shooting the proverbial shit with him.