The first clash of the night saw Dave’s 2 pairs (AA 10 10) beating Sharon’s 2 pairs (10 10 7 7).
Annoyingly I lost a lot of chips to Jude (44) versus my A2 (A on the flop) only for 4 hearts to appear on the board.
Sharon and Charlie then both hit straights on the flop but Charlie, who’d hit the low straight, got lucky when 4 diamonds appeared on the board.
A massive hand saw Pauline Fowler triple up with a full house. Flopping trip 6s Puss was shocked when Lee hit the nut flush on the turn. Mr Unlucky had several outs but was still exceptionally lucky to pair the board and hit a full boat.
Lee then knocked Sharon out, before tripling up against me (why did I raise £5 with K8?) and James (99). As I said at the time, “I don’t think I did anything wrong”. This fact was proven the very next hand as James went all-in with a much inferior hand (K7) and also lost unsurprisingly.
The next hand saw Dave on the come – sadly it never came, but Ilan did as he hit a full house when all-in.
Marc repeated his trick of not knowing what cards he has calling Ilan’s all-in with an imaginary pair of 6s (it was a 5). Get your eyes checked.
Marc’s highlight of the evening was dealing the following cards on the board 3KQKQ.
Jude was now monster chip leader and it was clearly affecting her play as she called another £2.25 with 62 when only 34 or 35 would have seen her win the pot.
Marc then reeled in The Shuffler with 2 pairs (JJ 66) only for Puss to get very lucky with 4 clubs on the board.
Heads-up, Jude (AA) was delighted when she hit trip As early on, although she seemed to think she was behind at one point to Mr Unlucky’s top pair of Ks. The photo we took was superseded later by Ilan’s wonder-hand.
The chips moved from Jude to Vic and back to Jude in a dull heads-up battle, which was a slow as one of Binman’s dustcarts. Congratulations to Jude on the first Jayson win of 2006.
Game 2 (1st Lee, 2nd Ilan, 6 players)
In a repeat of the previous week’s heads-up action, Lee strolled to victory against Ilan.
The game started late. Paul had showed remarkable restraint to sit through an entire hand when in hand 2, Dave re-raised Paul’s £3 raise another £4.50. Announcing the late hour, Paul re-raised Dave another £3 only for Dave to raise all-in. Paul called with KK (top pair) and A kicker and walked into trip 8s. No need to come in next week Paul – just leave your tenner by the door.
Dave then milked Vic lovely until his nipples were sore with a diamond flush.
The hand of the night (see photo) followed as Ilan hit 4 Aces (his best ever hand) but didn’t extract much cash.
Dave then clashed with Lee who dented Dave’s large chip lead with trip 66s versus two pairs (KK JJ).
I then dented Dave even more with AK suited versus AJ to double up.
I then came off badly in two clashes with Ilan – first going all-in with a pocket pair of 8s and a harmless looking 235 on the flop. The call came very quickly as Ilan had A4. Immediately after, I went all-in with AJ and lost to Ilan’s AK. Puss also departed this hand.
Heads-up at 1am. To say Ilan went out with a whimper would be a vast exaggeration. After not calling about 10 of Lee’s raises he was down to a few chips. The final hand saw Lee’s AQ hold up against pocket 6s as a Q hit on the flop.
Conversation topics
With Barry allegedly with Caroline in Rome, Dean away and Dan playing, not playing, then wanting to play but not being able to play, it was a quiet night away from the cards. The poker suite and loft conversion received some ooohs and aaaahs while the question on everyone’s lips was whether Sharon would actually carry through on her threat to return to work in 2006. The usual topics were discussed: Planet Earth (nutters jumping into mile-deep caves), Derren Brown’s tricks of the mind (loved the way he made the sun disappear), The Apprentice (Jo has to go soon) and excitement starting to build at the return of Lost.
The Bad Accountant explained how he got his job at KPMG – on the way out he walked into what he thought was a very long lift only to walk head first into a mirror on the back wall. Genius.
Dave described his worst bad beat online from the previous night holding QQ and flopping QJ3 – but losing with QQQJJ (second nuts) to JJJJ (nuts) to another J on the river. Ouch! As Ruth on the Apprentice would say “end of”.
Competition time
Vic’s poker monikers – can you add to this already healthy list of names Vic goes by at the poker table?
1. Puss
2. Pauline Fowler
3. Binman
4. Vicky
5. The Shuffler
6. The Bad Accountant
7. Unlucky Vic
8. Mr Unlucky
9.
10.
Send your suggestions to jja@cms-cmck.com. Vic has kindly offered a prize for the most offensive name.
Text sex rating (out of 10)
10
Proof from Barry
Barry sent me the attached photo to prove Caz was actually with him in Rome.
