In this week’s poker news round up, we remind you that online poker is dead in Australia, 888Poker has begun banning players who use artificial intelligence leaving players confused and angry, and so much more.

We’ll begin in the land of the duck-billed platypus, kookaburra, and politicians who want to play Mummy and Daddy.

I am, of course, talking about Australia.

This week, the hearts and hopes of Australian poker players were squeezed through that old washing device of the 20s, hung out to dry, and then carried off into the sky by a seagull before being dropped face first into a car park.