I’ve talked myself out of going to too many gigs over the last few years, so when it was announced that Chicago based MC Lupe Fiasco was doing Big Day Out sideshows, I snapped up tickets the day they came out before I had a chance to do it again. Rather than worrying about parking in St. Kilda (especially on Australia Day), I decided to do the lazy thing - drive in to Crown, park, play some poker to get me free parking for next time and then get a taxi to and from the show. A recent post on PokerNetwork hinted that Crown only have one or two 1/2 No Limit tables open, preferring to ferry everyone over to those horrible electronic PokerPro tables which actually made me think about skipping poker all together. After an up and day down of Limit Hold’Em online, I decided to say screw it and headed off to Crown.

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