Ilan took chips of Lee early on with trip 9s and Barry did the same with a straight against Vic.
Vic won a large pot against Sharon and Scott with a straight and Sharon did the same to Dan with a nice full house 10 10 10 8 8.
I won a healthy pot with pocket cowboys versus early chip leader Ilan.
Scott hit Vic where it hurts with QQ versus KK. Vic called Scott’s all-in in a flash only for the first card to be a Q. Serves you right for being negative when you saw you were a massive over-dog (new word I just created).
Barry was KO’d by me with 77 versus 55 and a flop of 334.
I lost loads of chips to Dan who went all-in post flop with AA. I called with QQ.
Short stacked Sharon went all-in with a flush draw and low pair and fell to Charlie’s top pair.
Pyramid Dave (his chip stacking was inspired by the Egyptians this week) was very lucky in two large pots to claim a monster lead. First A5 came good against Vic’s A6 and then Dave’s QQ came good versus Ilan’s KK and Charlie’s 88.
Lee exited next hand to IJ who got a small amount of revenge on Dave with KQ hitting Qs to beat Dave’s wired Jacks.
Scott was then KO’d by Ilan and I won a few chips versus Dan with AA.
Dan was then exceptionally unlucky going all-in versus Ilan who hit runner runner to KO Dan.
Heads-up Dave got lucky again with J7 to double up against IJ’s A6. A lucky 7 hitting on the river.
IJ doubled up with JJ versus Dave’s flush draw but the end was nigh as Dave won with trip 8s versus second pair.
Game 2 (1st Dan, 2nd Vic, 9 then 8 players)
Barry hit a JJJ 44 full house to take early chips off Dave.
Charlie doubled up with a nut flush against Barry.
Lee KO’d Dave with KK.
In a telepathic hand, the first four cards were 6322 and there followed a discussion on the cards that would be beating someone holding 22. Dan was unusually quiet during this discussion and with good reason as he was holding 22 and won a large pot against Charlie. See photo below.
Vic KO’s Barry with 10 10 versus 4 4.
Dan was then shafted royally with trip 7s on the flop (flop was A27) only for IJ holding AQ to hit QQ for an astonishing full house.
I went all-in with my usual good timing. Vic (AK hearts) and Charlie called (AA) and Vic’s luck finally turned as he hit the nut flush. Charlie wasn’t impressed.
Vic continues:
A lot of the action after J left featured Ilan. First, with 2345 on the board, Ilan went straight to the point with an all in raise. I called and it was no surprise to split the pot with both of us holding the low flush. Ilan had better luck when Lee went all in pre flop with a pair of 9s. Ilan called and turned over pocket tens to send Lee to the Sofa. Ilan's demise though came soon after. With the flop showing 4 7 3 and two spades, Ilan called Dan's all in with a flush draw. Dan turned over 7 4 for two pair and it held up to the river. Ilan had him covered, but the end was not long in coming.
Dan therefore went into heads up with me with a good chip lead. However, thanks to some good cards, the positions were soon reversed. When Dan announced all in and I looked down to see pocket Kings, I couldn't wait to finish him off. Unfortunately when the board was dealt, Dan hit two pair which just about sums up my night: pocket Kings twice, call an all in twice, lose twice. Even pocket rockets weren't able to save me from this situation (the big blind just folded) and Dan wrapped it up at 1:45am.
Mazel tovs
Happy 33rd birthday to me.
Be’sha’ah tovah to Caroline and Barry who are expecting to be outnumbered with their third child in March 2007. Suggestions for names will be gratefully received. Diesel has already been suggested.
How to?
Here’s one for the ladies. Best bra purse wins a prize.
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Bra-Purse
Fancy a meal here?
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2006-08-21T112143Z_01_DEL285484_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-INDIA-HITLER.XML&src=rss
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-13539330,00.html
Quotes of the night
Charlie (he’s a poet but doesn’t know it): “I saw a dwarf in Canary Wharf”
Charlie (on form tonight): “Am I stupid or honest?”
Sharon about Vic: “Are you sure that’s a person?”
JJ: “Burps”
Barry: “What have you been eating?”
JJ: “Avi’s sausage”
Dave: “Who’s Avi?”
Anagrams (new feature)
Following last week’s anagram here’s a couple more:
Barry I – A so scary brain
And my favourite:
Daniel Graham – A mangled hair
For those of you who would like to try this out for themselves, see the following link: http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/advanced.html Feel free to contribute any that you find to next week’s blog.
Websites of the week
Here’s a couple of great sites from Charlie.
http://www.i-r-genius.com/rudeplaces.html
http://www.dazbert.co.uk/sites/rudefood/
Story of the week
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91059-1231805,00.html?f=rss
Brainteaser
Congrats to Barry on winning last week’s brainteaser. The correct answer was Golf Ball. See below for this week’s brainteaser.
HintLightning Ridge is in Australia and is famous for being the only place in the world where a certain gemstone is found.
I have one, you have one.
If you remove the first letter, a bit remains.
If you remove the second, bit still remains.
After much trying, you might be able to remove the third one also, but it remains.
It dies hard!
