For Real!
Monday
Worked all day then went to cricket.
This entailed a great rush as I realised I’d left all me cricket stuff at home at around 5pm, giving me around 2 hrs to get back home, get me stuff and get back again. I made it.
Monday wasn’t a very interesting day really.
Tuesday
Neither was Tuesday.
Wednesday
or Wednesday for that matter.
Thursday
or on… no, hang on, Thursday was pretty cool!
Basically I went into work and then had my first ever live poker tournament at the union.
It was great fun… here’s how it went… This is how I wrote it elsewhere so you may not understand all the terms!
If this applies to you, it might help to open this page Poker Glossary and look up any terms that you get stuck on. Alternatively you can accept I had a pretty good time and move on to the stuff I did afterwards!
Basically everyone started with $1,000 worth of chips (for £1). now the blinds were raising every 15 mins or so and the rebuys lasted an hour, so you could try and play tight, but ending up anywhere < $1,250 would’ve been suicidal when coming into the freezeout (the blinds were $400/$200 by then). Realistically you wanted $3500 +
Therefore every hand (except about 2) went to all-ins. You could try entering a hand without an all-in, but you’d be re-raised by someone anyway.
It was crazy, and basically down to luck! (GREAT fun though!) there was a guy on the table next to ours who was going in EVERY hand, he lost £15 before quitting (impressive on a £1 rebuy!).
Anyway, I won up to $1,800 on QQ for my first all in, and risked it with an AQs (as rosy says, all-ins ranged from Axs to 86o (4 all-ins were on 86o!)). I lost to A8o when the 8’s hit a set - I was down to $650.
I decided if I didn’t hit a hand by the BB I’d go all in whatever (BB: $200 by then) so did so blind. I was quite happy when I got A6s. I was dominated however and lost to a kicker after aces hit their set.
as the end of the hour approached I realised my piddly $1000 wasn’t going to get me anywhere and so went all in on a fair few marginals, to try and double up; had I got to $2000 I’d have sat tight til the freezeout. I lost when favourite once, and when not twice.
It came to the last hand and I had my last $1000. Of course now I knew I had to go all-in whatever, so again I played blind.
Of course every short stack at the table was all in, so I had the chance to go to $5k.
The cards were dealt…
27o
(this is the worst possible hand!)
the board comes down T88J9.
It takes a moment to register, but I hit a straight! the dealer didn’t actually notice, so I had to point it out to him.
my triumph was shortlived, however, as the guy next to me pointed out his Q…
ah well!
great fun, I’d quite like to play just a proper freezeout next time though!
Afterwards I raced down to the quiz and met up with Liz, Cassie, Alsion, Mahinda, Adrian and latterly Ed, Linden and Rosy (who, it turned out, finished on the bubble in the poker tourney!). We did poorly, however.
Then onto the Retro Bar’s new “Indie” night, which was anything but! the music being a bit naff, I made my way home around 1am or so (?) apparently there was a bit of “fun” after we left involving some of the mugss lot, but I’ll not go into that here.
Right. thats it!
To be fair, it was billed as ‘an eclectic mix of Indie, Emo, Rock and Classic pop’ rather than a straight indie night.
Still, the music was rubbish, and the DJ was clearly playing his own favourites rather than making any concessions at all to his audience…who were mostly sitting down and grumbling about the rubbish music.
There was indeed much fun to be had after you left. Don’t know how much of it I’ll blog. Probably not a lot, as it’s of the somewhat sensitive nature.
Comment by Mahinda — February 13, 2006 @ 3:01 pm