26 September (S&L’s house) £20 loss – “Long live the Hoff (see video)”

Game 1 (1st Dan, 2nd Scott, 8 players)

Lee and I shared the first pot with identical hands of AQ.

Shortly after a deceptively great flop AQ4 left me looking at trip Qs and thinking I was reeling in Barry. Sadly, this was the first (out of three occasions on the night) that I walked into AA. W@nk.

In the hand of the night, the flop came 222 and Lee had limped in with AA. Lee hit AAA22 on the turn but Dan had hit four 2s on the flop to decimate Lee. Nice birthday present.

Dan hit an A high flush on the river to KO both Vic and Lee.

Monster Dan then KO’d Sharon with Q10 versus Q9.

Dave KO’d me with pocket rockets.

Scott doubled up with an A high flush versus Barry’s J high flush.

Farmer Scott then milked Dan with KK.

Barry doubled up with AJ versus Dave’s QQ.

Barry was then all but KO’d by Dave’s two pair (KK 77) versus top pair (AA).

Scott finished the job by knocking out Barry with a J on the river.

Scott was then faced with a text all-in dilemma as Dalia texted to say Lia was downstairs. Scott gambled and texted back “do you want me to come home?” An anxious wait followed until the bluff paid off.

Scott doubled up versus Dave and then Dan KO’d Dave leaving a second game in a row featuring heads-up between Scott and Dan.

Dan wasn’t to be denied. A nice straight and flush won further chips from Scott. Cautious Scott then slow-played his pair of Qs allowing Dan to hit the flush on the river to take the spoils.

Game 2 (1st Lee, 2nd Vic, 8 players)

Barry won a big early pot versus Dave with top pair versus 99.

Optimistic Scott (44) was KO’d by Barry’s two pairs. Why did you call?

Vic almost tripled up with trip 8s versus Barry and Dean.

Dean tripled up versus Dave (KO’d) and Barry.

Dan got very lucky to double up against Barry with 77 versus JJ. A straight arriving on the turn. At this point, Scott helped Dan by placing his large pile of chips in piles of one.

Lee hit the nut flush to KO Dan and then KO’d Dean with pocket Ks.

I lost loads of chips to Vic with A 10 versus AQ before walking into my third lot of pocket rockets on the night held by Lee.

Lee (how you can think you are not lucky getting KK, AA, KK in about five hands is beyond me) then KO’d Barry (top pair with A kicker) with KK.

Heads-up was a three-hand marathon as Lee’s pocket 10s held up against Vic’s pocket 8s.

Conversation topics

No-one managed to get a word in all night as Dean bleated on to Scott about a new venture he’s leading (in his spare time) that requires 50 new hires.

Quotes of the night

In a strong contender for quote of the year Scott said “all right, which cunt’s go is it?”
Everyone: “You!”

Lee to Dan (after very bad beat with AAA22 versus 2222J): “You are not welcome in my house”
Dave: “No change there then”

Dean (talking about his new business venture): “From great oaks, small acorns grow”. No wonder Scott wasn’t interested.

Life at Accenture

Dan was out pimping until 1.30am the previous night.

Dean proudly boasted he was asleep at 9.30pm the previous night. Don’t think this laziness hasn’t been spotted by Accenture. Why else would they think you have the spare capacity to take on this new project?

Dean admitted to resorting to lying on his business cards to get the partner title he craves.

How to?

http://www.wikihow.com/Be-a-Slacker

The Hoff (this is amazing)

http://www.youtube.com/v/RB-wUgnyGv0 (contributed by Alexei – mazeltov on your engagement. For those that want an explanation of how this is done please email me and I will forward Alexei’s email)

Stories of the week

Take that you pesky panda:

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2006-09-21T092909Z_01_PEK289017_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-CHINA-PANDA.XML&src=rss

3 year old buys car on ebay:

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13544104,00.html

Idiot-proof Mondeo:

Ford are bringing out an "idiot-proof" Mondeo .They proudly boast that the 2007 model, which will be unveiled at next week's Paris Motor Show, will incorporate technology which will make it impossible to put petrol into a diesel tank.

Mazel tov/messages

Happy 33rd birthday to Lee.

Wishing everyone well over the fast. May everyone be inscribed in the book of life.

Brainteaser

Well done to Barry on last week’s brainteaser. The correct answer was ‘painless operation’. See below for this week’s brainteaser.

Which is the odd one out and why?

Boundaries
Chameleon
Cancerous
Librarian
Scorpions
Keyboards