Dan having been overcome by a serious bout of man flu meant a hasty return to the Poker Suite, for the first time this year. Having lost Dean to his Singaporean Mistress, we were down to 9 players for the first game of the evening. However, those 9 players all complied with Lee's instructions to arrive on time and we kicked off by 8.25. Can it be a coincidence that the loss of 2 Accenture slaves meant we started earlier than normal???
In a combination that was to be repeated many times throughout the evening, Dave & Charlie played the first bloggable hand, which Charlie won, his trip Qs helping him to double up against Dave's trip 9s.
In the most memorable exit of recent years, Vic went all in with AJ, just as Ol' Blue Eyes came on the ipod singing 'And now, the end is near...' Charlie called with 88 which tripped up, pushing Vic out 9th. Well at least he did it his way...
Sharon was out next (8th) when Dave's 55 held up against her A6.
Baz was out 7th, with Dave claiming the scalp again, 99 beat Big Slick.
JJ's J9 hit a 9, but wasn't enough to beat Charlie's pocket jacks. JJ out 6th.
Charlie also dispatched Jude, with a 7 card straight to her pair of 9s. Jude out 5th.
Down to four, the pressure ratcheted up, when IJ went all in with A2, but got lucky on the river hitting a straight against Dave's KK. Dave took the bad beat well, flinging his chips at IJ and then abusing him when he took a quick phone call.
Dave recovered his cool and knocked Lee out 4th, with his QK against Lee's J10.
He then got his revenge, knocking IJ out 3rd, QQ held up against A6.
Heads up between Charlie and Dave was a long drawn out affair, with only one all-in move called. The rest of the players left them to it, to try their luck at 'Who wants to be a Millionaire'.
An hour and a half later, Charlie beat Dave to claim the points.
Well done Charlie!
Game 2 – 7 players - (1st Baz, 2nd Dave, 3rd Lee)
Despite our prompt arrivals, the epic heads up battele, meant the second game didn't kick off until midnight, which gave a reformed Paul plenty of time to finish the feed and get set for action.
JJ continued his disastrous run of luck in 2008, exiting first when his pocket 10s were beaten by Dave's K10, which hit a K. JJ was gone (7th) in a shot.
IJ's pocket rockets hit an ace, and knocked Charlie out 7th, but IJ ran into Dave's own pocket rockets shortly after and was knocked out (6th).
Baz then embarked on a run of destruction knocking every remaining player out:
- his Q10 sent Paul Q5 home (5th);
- pocket Js held up against Vic's AQ (4th);
- AK turned into a lucky straight to beat Lee's 55 (3rd)
- heads up he beat Dave with AA against AK, although Dave hit a K on the turn and had 4 spades, giving him plenty of outs. But it was not to be Dave's night.
Well done Barry!
2008 Poker Rankings table:
Dave garnered 4 points from his two second places this week and closed the gap on Lee, who hangs on to the top spot, but only by his fingertips.Barry's 2nd game win propelled him into the top three, overtaking Sharon.
Charlie's first game victory puts him 5th on the scoreboard, while JJ languishes in 11th. No burgers for the Borehamwood boys in January. Better luck in February..
Conversation topics:
With Dean absent, quality conversation was a little thin on the ground. There was also naturally, a sombre mood given the sad news of Jeremy Beadle's death (see below). The most notable question of the night came once the ladies had departed and the tone was lowered in its usual second game manner. The Corrs came on the ipod and provoked an interesting debate:
Unsurprisingly, all around the table agreed that you would allow the brother to watch, for a crack at the 3 sisters together.
Also perhaps unsurprisingly, Barry was quite happy to do the brother first, in order for his chance with the 3 sisters, which begged the question:
was he just going through the motions of doing the 3 sisters, in order to do the brother???
Congratulations of the week:
to Charlie on his new job with Dresden Kleinwort Benson...
& refuah shlemah to Sharon's teeth.
We Remember: Jeremy Beadle
What's the difference between Big Ben and Jeremy Beadle?
Big Ben's little hand is still moving.
Mrs Beadle is in two minds about his funeral.
On the one hand she wants to throw a lavish bash ...
on the other hand she thinks a small finger buffet may be more appropriate
Just heard the ITV are televising Beadles Cremation....
its call you'vebeen flamed
Sites of the week
this is class but don't watch at work with the sound too loud..
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5hgsw5Hg0Ag
and from JJ:
http://5x5m.com/files/xtremefootball/
the Biggest ever cash pot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGtECF5DxIQ
and a random one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cZ5IAD_ssA
given our attempts to get cash out of Lee's Wii, Barry found these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ1JMnkQVcQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMriTkE3igY&feature=related
News of the Week
Thanks to Barry for this one:
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1302689,00.html
Jokes of the week
JJ provided this one: the real purpose of post it notes...
Thanks to Dave for all of these...
Hymie went to the races for the first time and knowing nothing about the betting procedure, decided a good place to start would be the paddock, where unbelievably he saw a rabbi blessing one of the horses. He wrote down the horse's number and placed a £2 bet. Sure enough, the horse came first and he won £20.
Seeing the rabbi bless another horse, he again wrote down the number, bet his £20 and the horse won, earning him £100. This continued, race after race, until he had amassed £5000. Just before the last race, he watched the rabbi bless another horse. Excitedly, he bet the whole £5000, but to his great dismay the horse finished last.
Devastated, he found the rabbi leaving the race course.'Rabbi,' he wailed, 'why did every horse you bless win, except the last one?''
"Are you Jewish?' asked the rabbi.
'Yes,' replied Hymie, 'Progressive.'
'Well, that's the problem with you Progressive Jews,' explained the rabbi, 'you don't know the difference between a Beracha and Kaddish!'
and that's all for this week folks!
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