Game 1 – 10 players - (1st JJ, 2nd Barold, 3rd Jude):
Dave, hot off the plane from Vegas, doubled up early on with 10 8 - 2 pairs- vs Judes KK
Sharon (88) was out first to Dave's trip 4's
Dean got very lucky hitting runner runner for a full house vs my straight
Lee completed a Young nightmare, out next to Ilan's trip 5's
I (A 10) tripled up vs Dan (KQ) and Charlie (99) - Dan out after hitting 2 pair on flop, but a Jack on the river gave me a straight and won me a huge pot
JJ knocked out Charlie with a straight
I doubled up against JJ (A 10) with K 10 hitting 2 kings on the flop !
Ilan fell next to Jude's 10 10
I won a big hand vs Dave with nut flush
I then knock farty Dean out with A9 vs K6 and an Ace on the flop
JJ crippled Dave (6 black chips left ) with AQ vs A9 and a Q on the flop
Dave all out next hand to JJ's JJ !
Jude (AJ) all in - JJ called (A9). Typical of JJ recently, the flop came 9A9 and Jude out in 3rd.
Heads up with JJ I was slight chip leader until all in with K10 - JJ called with 55 and no help for me - I was very low chipped, went all in next hand blind, and lost to JJ's better crap than mine.
Game 2 – 8 players - (1st Charlie, 2nd Dean, 3rd Dan):
JJ crippled Dave with AK vs K9 and a higher straight to the lower straight
Dave then doubled up with KJ vs Lee's JJ hitting a king on the river, to Lee's delight !!
Dave then all in with a flush and straight draw - Ilan calls with 2 pair, but a King on the river gave Ilan a full house and Dave out.
Dean doubled up vs JJ (his nemesis all night) with a full house vs a straight
To huge applause, excitement and joy, I knocked JJ out with 2 pair. There was a huge sense of euphoria in the room, as JJ left the house !!
Charlie doubled up vs me with full house to my trips
I then fell to Charlie (AA)
Ilan out next hand to Dean, followed shortly by Dan.
Heads up, Charlie took the spoils, Dean second.
Poker Rankings table for this week:
Conversation Topics:
Lots of chatter about Vegas, after Dave's trip (for the record, surprisingly, only 13 mentions from Dave, with only 3 name drops !!). The best story was the $17000 cash game when both players in heads up turned over a king of spades. Whoops. Someone had been naughty, but the cameras couldn't tell who, so everyone involved in the hand had to get their money back. DOH !. It seems, however, that the worst thing Dave learnt over there was how to string fold !
The second game was actually quite enjoyable later on, as it got late. Dean helped us all to a game of call my bluff (apt for poker!). Bicepahalous, as we all know means having 2 heads , and not, as Lee suggested, getting syphillis every 2 years.
About an hour was wasted on probability questions - how many children must be in a classroom before the odds are in favour of two of them sharing a birthday ? (20 apparently) - and another about opening a lock on a safe. Exciting stuff.
Dean spent all night farting for Britain, and (as he had been all day to Jude's delight) watching the politics shit on tv - something about some bloke resigning and another taking his job - Wouldn't surprise me if it turned out that Dean grassed him up to HR !
Quotes of the Night:
(Dan delaying game by being in toilet)
Barry: "Dan are you shitting?"
Dan:"No, I'm coming"
Charlie: "Man missing in a dyke ? She must be a big woman !"
Joke of the Week:
(Thanks JJ)
A wealthy hospital benefactor was being shown around the hospital. During her tour she passed a room where a male patient was masturbating furiously.
"Oh my G-D!" screamed the woman. "That's disgraceful!!!!! Why is he doing that?!
"The doctor who was leading the tour calmly explained, "I'm very sorry that you were exposed to that, but this man has a serious condition where his testicles rapidly fill with semen, and if he doesn't do that at least five times a day, he'll be in extreme pain and his testicles could easily rupture."
"Oh, well in that case, I guess it's okay," said the woman. As they passed by the very next room, they saw a male patient laying in bed while a nurse performed oral sex on him. The woman again screamed, "Oh my G-D!!!!! How can THAT be justified?!"
Again the doctor spoke very calmly: "Same illness, but he's with BUPA."
Videos of the Week:
Amazing shot. Love the gun on the wall at the end. Impressive stuff.
http://www.killsometime.com/video/video.asp?ID=953
Image of the Week:
Click to enlarge !
News Stories of the Week:
The world's first ATM was installed 40 years ago this week. But where was it ?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6230194.stm
Last Year's Blog:
We discussed the positioning of mezuzot and Be’shet.
Ilan was promoted to Elite status following a vote of Elite members.
The personalised message in JJ's salary review this week last year – ‘another good year Jonathan, well done.’
Lewis, who was playing with 5 stitches in his shoulder, dealt for over an hour and warmly embraced the new twin-pack shuffling routine.
The two frogs pictured in a previous blog have croaked. Yisgadal…The hard work sadly got to one of Dean’s colleagues who passed away this week from a heart-attack aged 34. The funeral will be held at midnight after next year’s planning session. Dean was too busy to attend his corporate hospitality day at Wimbledon. Dan fought back when asked to produce a re-plan at 9pm for the following morning. Now he’s got a whole day to produce it.
At the half way point of the year, last year, this was the table. How times have changed ! Sighhhhhhhhhh.
SPECIAL ONE OFF FEATURE : - Cannons Gym (City)
I have always wondered what happens in a gym when they have a fire drill. I found out today. Unfortunately for me I was swimming when the fire alarm went off. After fighting with the staff for a few minutes, I finally agreed to their request to leave the building. Dripping wet, with just a pair of shorts on, and goggles on my head, I walked out of the building. Luckily they were handing out towels, but still......... !!! Ten minutes later, we were allowed back in. Typical. Oh well. At least I wasn't in the shower.
And on that note, that's all for this week.
B.
