Barry and I arrived late and missed Lewis’s early decimation of Sharon’s chips. Dan KO’d Sharon with JJJ55 versus JJJ33.
On my second hand I held KK and eagerly awaited the flop. Post flop (J53) Lee re-raised me, so I re-raised him and Lee went all-in. I called and Lee revealed JJ. S#ite. However, in amazing scenes I hit runner runner hearts to double up. The Youngs were both sat on their sofa by 9.30pm – astonishing.
Barry tripled up versus Jude and Lewis.
Dan KO’d Dave with trip 10s.
I quite quickly lost loads of my ‘hard-earned’ chips.
IJ doubled up with a lucky flush versus Jude (runner runner again).
I doubled up in style against Barry with a lovely 9 on the river.
Dan KO’d both Lewis and Jude with an A on the river.
In a key hand for me, I hit a flush on the river to double up against Barry.
Dan KO’d Barry and IJ with A9 versus 62 and AJ respectively. Dan – you knocked out everyone up until heads-up.
Heads-up I got very lucky again with runner runner for a straight against Dan.
Shortly after Dan got lucky when only the board pairing made it a split pot.
In the final hand Dan went all-in with A2 and I called with Q8. The flop came 2 and then 8 and it was all over. Congrats to me on my first win for ages.
Game 2 (1st Dave, 2nd Ilan, 6 players)
Like buses you wait ages and then three come along all at once. We had 3 four of a kinds including two four of a kings in less than an hour.
First Barry hit four 7s. Then Lee hit four Ks with his hand improving from two pair on the flop, to full house on the turn and to four of a kind on the river.
Incredibly Barry repeated this feat two hands later.
IJ KO’d Barry with trip 8s.
Lee doubled up with A9 versus my A8. I hit my 8 on the river but it made Lee a straight also.
Dan KO’d Lee with AJ versus KJ.
IJ had AA versus me before Dave knocked me out with top pair.
That left Dave, Dan and IJ.
The killer hand was Dave 8 9 off - Dan had A 2 - flop came 7 8 7 - small bet dan - dave calls - 8
- checks then A on river Dan goes all in and Dave cleans up having reeled Dan in "Good n proper"
Ilan was v small stack and did not last long. Congrats to Dave on his first win for ages.
Video of the week (from Lee)
I managed to track down the link to this week’s video of Vic playing heads-up poker. Such style and grace…
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3728266100951844857
Conversation topics
Jude revealed that on average she sees Dean for 20 minutes each day. It’s a good job Accenture is so committed to work-life balance. http://careers3.accenture.com/Careers/Global/WorkingHere/WorkLifeBalance/
Barry is seriously considering purchasing trophies for the league table winners. He’s due to present himself with the trophy he bought for himself in four weeks. A photographer and lighting crew have been booked.
Dan seems to have been affected by the Polonium outbreak as he spent a good hour working out whether he’d been to a certain restaurant before deciding it was a completely different one. Then he convinced me and Lee that the second test was about to start – it starts tonight.
Quote of the week
Lee was talking about the restaurant asiadecuba. Dan: “”What kind of food do they serve?”
Story of the week (from Barry)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6190772.stm
Fancy a bite? (I dare anyone to buy and eat this impressive looking chocolate in one sitting)
http://www.woolworths.co.uk/ww_p2/product/index.jhtml?pid=50295663
Sledging (may be we’ll win this competition)
http://www.cricket-forum.net/aus/Crickets_Greatest_Sledges_99221.html
El Al food (thanks to Barry)
This might well catch on…
Bad names (thanks to Dave)
So you think you’ve got a bad name…
Poker card sharks
http://news.sky.com/skynews/picture_gallery/picture_gallery/0,,30000-1242416,00.html
Brainteaser
Congratulations to Barry on a partial correct answer to last week’s brainteaser. The answer was 3 muskateers - Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.
See below for this week’s teaser. Can you decipher this anatomical letter equation?
4 = B o t L (F, T, P, F)
Date for the diary
The third annual charity poker extravaganza is provisionally scheduled for Feb 3rd. Please keep the date free.
