Hi im Matt Mclean.
We have tourneys at this shop called Tactics in Perth, Western Australia. So I got the game on Wednesday, had no-one to play against then my friend got it on Thurs, starter kit... I kicked his ass every time though. I went in a tourney on Saturday so heres my deck.
 
Water/Fighting:
1 diglett
2 Farfetched
3 machop (20 damage, 50 hp and only require one card!)
1 doduo (just a card in there as its cheap, like diglett)
2 sandshrew (im not sure about these yet...0
2 machoke
2 onix (great starters as their hp are highand only need one card)
 
3 staryu (same as machop)
1 starmie (recover is great!)
2 seel ( weak, but i wait for my dewgong to come in)
2 dewgong (these are TOUGH! Two water energy and  one whatever wakes aurora beam the best!)
2 squirtle (i think wartortle are good so i include em)
2 Wartortle ( i think these are great, only needing one water energy and does double damage on fire)
2 poliwag (their ok)
1 poliwhirl ( one word: doubleslap, i win almost all my coin tosses so double damage on fire could kill charizard in one go if two heads!!!)
 
13 WATER ENERGY (NEEDS IMPROVEMENT MAYBE ANOTHER FOUR)
13 fighting energy (its ok)
 
3 energy removal (really ****s people off)
1 super potion (its great!)
1 defender
 
Thats my deck
 
I only remember two games so ill tell you them.
 
2nd Game: Me VS redhaired kid
 
This kid had 3 Charizard in his deck, but he drew up one vulpix and trainers in his turn. I drew two staryu and a farfetched and applied one water to staryu (i won the toss) and did double damage which left him with 10 left. He drew another trainer and i slapped wiping him out and he had no other basics.
Two turns!
 
Results: WIN!
 
Note: I played him again and I lost as i had a crappy hand. Shows how much this game depends on luck!
 
Game2: Me VS Mr Tickle
 
Mr Tickle was aguy in a leather jacket and had a coin with heads on both sides. The bastard tricked me the first time!
 
I started (again) and had some Staryus and 2 machop (i cant remember really) and put water on the staryu. He has electabuzz! and heaps! my water pokemon were screwed so i hit anyway. I could have won (it was sudden death, we had to kill one of each others pokemon) but i sent out onix and forgot farfetched had a resistance to fighting. I screwed up big time.... nothing i could do could help me... if id sent out the right one i would have been fine.
 
Thats it for my report!
 
Any comments send to clan@tnet.com.au or raiiichu@yahoo.com
Also visit my pokemon page at http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Subway/5722/pokemon.html
Its good!
IM gonna add some trading card game stuff to my page...
IN all i won 1out of 6 games and most were seasoned players so i felt pretty good.
See ya
Matt Mclean