I arrived late and slow-played my straight and straight flush draw to Dave and Sharon. A four on the turn made my low end straight look a lot weaker and Dave won early chips with a 7 high straight as well as a higher straight flush draw. Sharon also had the low straight.
I then showed good instincts to lay down 88 versus Dave’s 33 after a flop of 763. I shouldn’t have bothered as I was out next hand.
Dan doubled up against Sharon with AA versus QQ (the Queen taketh) following a flop of 4 6 10.
Barry made an £8 raise to Jude which everyone read as an over-bet. Jude showed cool instincts to call and decimate Barry’s stack.
Sharon went all-in with 85 and Jude and Dave (QQ) called. A lucky straight arrived to double up Sharon. The Queens giveth.
Sharon repeated the old double up trick with two pairs. Jude showed a different side to her game by raising with absolutely nothing.
Barry (K3 suited) came back from the dead doubling up against Dave (A3) with three more hearts.
Dave doubled up against Sharon with 33 versus A9.
Barry (KK) then was very unlucky to be KO’d by Dave’s 99. Trip 9s arrived on the turn.
Lee doubled up with A7.
In an exciting hand (for Sharon) both Sharon and Dave held AA and it was no surprise they were both all-in pre-flop. Sharon hit 4 spades for a flush. Ouch!
In yet another big hand, Jude went all-in with 33 and Lee went all-in with AA. The flop was 3 6 K but an A arrived to Lucky Lee’s delight on the river to double him up.
Jude went all-in with AJ and doubled up versus Sharon. Jude (A 10) repeated the feat versus Dan’s 77 hitting two pairs.
Dan tripled up with pocket 8s.
Sharon doubled up against Dan by hitting two pairs versus Dan’s straight and flush draw. Sharon was on a roll and KO’d Dave with JJ versus 33.
Dan then fell to Jude with 55 versus 99.
Lee was KO’d by partner in crime Sharon leaving just the bitches for the finale of a very long but interesting game.
The heads up contest looked like Jude would win but Sharon (watched by me) played strongly to fight back – a key hand was when Sharon hit trip 9s before the end came with a K high straight for Sharon versus Jude’s two pairs. Finish time 12.05am.
Game 2 (1st JJ, 2nd Lee, 7 players)
IJ won a big early pot versus Barry and then Dave did the same.
Dean was excited to hit a straight on the flop but the following cards screwed him royally and he lost to Lee’s full house JJJKK.
Barry went all-in with J8 (top pair) and exited to Dean’s AK.
Dave and Dan clashed with Dan getting a lucky 10 on the river to double up.
Dean was massively on tilt having laid down a hand to me and was then KO’d by Dave’s two pair.
With four players left and Dean’s parting words ringing in my ears (I hope you get a massive lead and then come third) I was a tad over-cautious when Dan re-raised my raise all-in. I laid down QQ (probably shouldn’t have shown this in hindsight). Dan had AQ and I would have won.
Short-stacked IJ (A5) was KO’d by Dave’s 10 4 but seemed more disappointed with the recycling takings this week.
Lee hit a monster with AQ making a full house AAAQQ versus Dan.
Dave got lucky against Dan hitting four to a flush to double up.
Lee doubled up against Dave hitting a full house on the flop.
Dave went all-in with an up and down and I called with trip Ks to KO Dave.
Heads up I did my usual suicide bluff with AK and two Qs on the flop. Lee had a Q and doubled up.
In an astonishing hand Lee went all-in with 33 and I had QJ suited. The flop was 3 J J followed by 9 and Q. Lovely.
Lee came back from the dead doubling up with A6 hearts versus my top pair on the flop.
Lee repeated this trick once more hitting two spades for a flush.
The final hand saw Lee with J9 versus my K9 with a 9 on the flop. The K kicker held up.
Conversation topics
With the rain teeming down and thunder/lightening there was a real danger to the smokers standing outside under the metal umbrella. Dan was encouraged to find something in the middle of the garden.
Total is sending Lee on a moor by himself in October to reflect for the night.
Life at Accenture
Dean revealed he is feeling the effects of being a junior executive as he admitted to no longer having lunch. As I went to sleep at 3am, I gained some small comfort that Dean was getting up at 4am to check on some new system he’s spent 6 months working on.
Dwarftastic
Anyone for basketball?
http://today.reuters.co.uk/tv/videoStory.aspx?isSummitStory=false&storyId=4f7f7a9a01bfea4cfbbde36c7f3329d7be15cb88&WTmodLoc=NewsArt-R4-WatchVideos-2
How to?
Recent events have shown the importance of this ‘how to’.
http://www.wikihow.com/Treat-a-Stingray-Sting
There’s now no excuse for not knowing your pot odds.
http://www.wikihow.com/Calculate-Pot-Odds-Quickly-in-Hold-'Em-Poker
Letter of the week (contributed by Dave)
Dear Audrey,
I know the counsellor said we shouldn't contact each other during our "cooling off" period, but I couldn't wait anymore. The day you left, I swore I'd never talk to you again. But that was just the wounded little boy in me talking. Still, I never wanted to be the first one to make contact. In my fantasies, it was always you who would come crawling back to me. I guess my pride needed that. But now I see that my pride's cost me a lot of things. I'm tired of pretending I don't miss you. I don't care about looking bad anymore. I don't care who makes the first move as long as one of us does. Maybe it's time we let our hearts speak as loudly as our hurt. And this is what my heart says... "There's no one like you, Audrey." I look for you in the eyes and breasts of every woman I see, but they're not you. They're not even close. Two weeks ago, I met this girl at Flamingos and brought her home with me. I don't say this to hurt you, but just to illustrate the depth of my desperation. She was young, maybe 19, with one of those perfect bodies that only youth and maybe a childhood spent ice skating can give you. I mean, just a perfect body. Jugs you wouldn't believe and an ass like a tortoise shell. Every man's dream, right? But as I sat on the couch being blown by this stunner, I thought, look at the stuff we've made important in our lives. It's all so superficial. What does a perfect body mean? Does it make her better in bed? Well, in this case, yes. But you see what I'm getting at. Does it make her a better person? Does she have a better heart than my moderately attractive Audrey? I doubt it. And I'd never really thought of that before. I Don't know, maybe I'm just growing up a little. Later, after I'd tossed her about a half a pint of throat yoghurt, I found myself thinking, "Why do I feel so drained and empty?" It wasn't just her flawless technique or her slutty, shameless hunger, but something else. Some niggling feeling of loss. Why did it feel so incomplete? And then it hit me. It didn't feel the same because you weren't there, Audrey, to watch. Do you know what I mean? Nothing feels the same without you. Jesus, Audrey, I'm just going crazy without you. And everything I do just reminds me of you. Do you remember Carol, that single mum we met at Pontins last year? Well, she dropped by last week with a pan of lasagne. She said she figured I wasn't eating right without a woman around. I didn't know what she meant till later, but that's not the real story. Anyway, we had a few glasses of wine and the next thing you know we're banging away in our old bedroom. And this tart's a total monster in the sack. She's giving me everything, you know like a real woman does when she's not hung up about her weight or her career and whether the kids can hear us. And all of a sudden she spots that tilting mirror on your grandmother' old vanity. So she puts it on the floor and we straddle it, right, so we can watch ourselves. And it's totally hot, but it makes me sad too. 'Cause I can't help thinking, "Why didn't Audrey ever put the mirror on the floor? We've had this old vanity for what, 14 years, and we never used it as a sex aid." Saturday, your sister drops by with my copy of the restraining order. I mean, Vicky's just a kid and all, but she's got a pretty good head on her shoulders and she's been a real friend to me during this painful time.
She's given me lots of good counsel about you and about women in general. She's pulling for us to get back together, Audrey, She really is. So we're drinking in a hot bath and talking about happier times. Here's this teenage girl with the same DNA as you and all I can do is think of how much she looked like you when you were 18. And that just about makes me cry. And then it turns out Vicky's really into the whole anal thing and that gets me to thinking about how many times I pressured you about trying it and how that probably fuelled some of the bitterness between us. But do you see how even then, when I'm thrusting inside your baby sister's cinnamon ring, all I can do is think of you? It's true, Audrey. In your heart you know it. Don't you think we could start over? Just wipe out all the grievances and start fresh? I think we can. If you feel the same please please please let me know, otherwise, can you let me know where the Sky remote control is, I've looked everywhere.
Paul
Stories of the week
Man forced to marry goat http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4748292.stm
For richer for paw-er http://news.sky.com/skynews/picture_gallery/picture_gallery/0,,30000-1233680,00.html
Charlie spotted an update on the threesome story of a few months back. See article below.
Internet sex gambler wins threesome but loses gal to third woman!
London, Sept 11 -- Next time you have those wild sexual ideas, like wife-swapping or a threesome, think twice for in the bargain you may lose your own partner forever, as happened in case of Richard Green. The Internet sex gambler had laid a bet, whereby he got his girlfriend Katie Greenwood to promise him a three-in-a-bed romp if his website got five million hits. And though he won it, he lost his lover after she left him for the girl they had a threesome with. Katie, who's an admin worker from Warrington, Cheshire, kept her word and went for it, but now she has dumped Green for pretty dancer Holly Henderson, the girl who made his fantasy come true. The 21-year-old claims that after their romp Richard became madly jealous.
"It was his idea to have the threesome, but I went along with it to keep him happy and now it's bitten him on the bum," Newsoftheworld quoted her, as saying.
"Afterwards he became a nightmare. I couldn't even go to the shop without him following, thinking I was seeing someone.
"I turned to Holly as a friend to get me through a difficult patch and things progressed from there," she added. Richard, 30, a former Lancashire county cricketer, who posted pictures of the romp on www.makethishappen.com admitted: "As soon as we'd had the threesome I knew it was a mistake. I just couldn't trust her any more."
What beer is for?
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Brainteaser
Congrats to Dave on winning last week’s tricky brainteaser – that’s two in a row. The correct answer was roman numerals. See below for this week’s brainteaser.
I am where the sky is orange;
I am where the grass is red;
I am the land of violet bananas
and the home to blue oranges.
What am I?
