Game 1 (1st JJ, 2nd Dave, 10 players)
The game started brightly for me taking 60% of the first 5 hands and building a reasonable lead.
Big hands of the night were:
I flopped a straight on the flop with 89 and won quite a few chips.
Barry (AQ) then got lucky against my K10 (10 9 8 on the flop) to double up with a lucky straight on the river.
Jude clashed with me next – thinking carefully about whether or not to call with 2 pairs and then walking into the nut flush (KQ clubs).
In an important hand for Dave, he doubled up with KQ versus my AJ suited.
Vic then doubled up with AA. Clearly inspired at this point, as he started dealing Vic uttered the immortal words “there you go Dan, your last card”. Dan exited seconds later, although to be fair he’d showed remarkable restraint to stick around with about £2 of chips.
Lee then doubled up against me with KK versus AQ.
Sipping my first diet coke of the night, the sugar-rush or my sheer stupidity made me continually raise with 63. Dave had 2 pairs on the flop and took a shed load of my chips.
Dave then dealt a double knock-out blow to Dean and Vic.
Ilan knocked out bull-frog Barry (look into my eyes – see below) with trip 4s (on the flop) improving to a straight on the river against A5.
EPT (Elite Poker Tour) Critical Moment – down to 3 players I went all-in against Ilan with Q10 and hit trip 10s to go heads-up with suntanned Dave.
The final hand saw the board pair 7s. Dave had also paired 5s and didn’t believe me when I tried an all-in bet. Pocket rockets won the game for me for the first time.
Game 2 (1st Lee, 2nd Ilan, 9 players)
Second hand I held pocket rockets again and called all of Ilan’s raises despite there being KK on the board. Ilan had a King to decimate my chips.
5 mins later it was all over for me as the flop came 554 and I went all-in with AK suited. Dan called with 66 and I was history.
Dean may have paid his debts to the group but clearly not to the poker gods as his two pairs (6s and 4s) turned to shite when an A hit on the river against Dave.
The game proceeded without too much incident to heads-up between Lee and Ilan with Lee taking the spoils.
Conversation topics
There was a bit of an animal theme with Jude having a snap in her tail having eaten a crocodile (not a whole one!), Barry being blind as a bat, Dave’s ‘crabs’ medicine was on display and Dean being quiet as a mouse (not!).
Landlord Dean was rounded on for considering objecting to his neighbour’s planning permission. Dave showed off a funny letter addressed Dear Wanker Brown. There was a lot more debate about the worst possible poker hand and also about multiples of doubling up such as octupleting up.
The Apprentice brought shame on the Jewish people. Surely, they could have sold their cooked chickens instead of throwing them away. Are they keeping Jo in for ratings?
Dean finally saw Lee lose then threatened to shit on Barry’s head before being made to wait for his own log which had started the slow crawl back up.
Enlightened Dan (one-off feature)
In a rare moment of enlightenment Dan announced, “I talk shit”.
Condolences
A minute’s silence was held for the cleverly named 'Frog' (no relation to 'Big Frog') who croaked this week.
With sympathy
To me for losing half of my staff on one day.
BJ Rating (out of 10)
7 (The conversation went something like “What big eyes you’ve got”. “Not as big as your….”)
