Vote for Nigel Brine in PokerStars Dream Job Promotion

Hi guys,
My name is Nigel Brine and I am a long time member of PokerNews and ChipMeUp. I have made the final 10 of the PokerStars Dream Job Australia Promotion, which is offering a $100k 12 month poker sponsorship. I would much appreciate your vote which can be made by registering for the tournament “Dream Job Finalist: [Nigel Brine]” from the Tourney>Regional tab of the PokerStars client, or by entering the following URL: pokerstars://tournament/257888078.
Thanks!
Nigel Brine

4 months is a long time? anyway, tell us why we should pick you over the other contestants. tell us more about yourself , your poker life up till now and what you do in “real life”, what your goals are etc.
gl and welcome….

Hey slyharry, well I have been a member of pokernews since 2007 which uses the same account. One reason you may wanna vote for me is because I finished the tournament first in chips. Here is some additional background info about me:

I am 31 and from Adelaide. My interests include heavy metal (Bal-Sagoth, Ayreon, Moonsorrow \m/), beer, fishing, computers and technology. I am currently working as a Senior Systems Engineer in Electronic Warfare at a large Defence company.

I started playing online on Absolute Poker back in ’06 after first playing on Xbox Live. It was there that I witnessed Monster Dong crushing a $109 SNG – he must have only been 18 at the time. It has been interesting to follow his progress since those early days.

After I won a few freerolls on AP I started playing SNGs and ring games to build up my roll. Later I started playing more frequently on PokerStars after winning a few freerolls there, and managed to grind up to a few $k. I also started playing in some of the Skycity tournament series and qualified for most finals including the Adelaide Hold’em Championships before it became part of the ANZPT.

I have since stopped playing at the casino to focus on finishing my PhD thesis in wireless communications which has now been accepted with amendments and is due by the end of April.

I can now be found playing $3-$30 MTTs (predominatly NLHE and HORSE) a couple of nights a week on PokerStars (under the sn OrphandGland) and PKR (under the sn Hermafro, where I am ranked 1693rd in MTTs). I am yet to post a >$1k win but have come close a few times (final table Auckland ANZPT 5k FPP satellite, 24/26517 in the Sunday $200k GTD, 4 final tables in the Aussie Open/Classic on PKR in the last month).

If anyone is wondering about the origins of my sn, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf7i6UB5vGw

Forget all that crap, just answer the important question…

Crows or Power ???

Crows lol!

Pfffft they both suck. I must admit you seem to be a brave man as I would not be admitting to be a crows man after they got belted by the dockers last week by 56 points.

PIES for the flag in 2010

Yes it was indeed painful…

I have launched a promotional video which can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjoWveKPXkY

Ida voted for ya but it was to late sry hope u made it gl to all CMU members