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Friday was a nothing day really, spent cleaning the house.

Saturday was the day of the first (of many, hopefully) PPT (Pete’s Poker Tourney - coined by Andi - the “Tournament Director” ).

The day was spent thus:

Getting the table downstairs and setting up the front room.
Going last-minute shopping for Gaffer Tape, Bread & Beer.
Watching Liverpool 1-0 Man U. (Hurray!)

Waiting for people to arrive.

Andi was first through the door, having completely failed to get lost on his way from Leeds, as was predicted!

Rosy, Andi & I played a few rounds of dealers choice, which was good fun. the highlight (apart from me winning ) was when I proudly turned over my cards to display the winning hand, only to abjectly note a 37o instead of my AJo, “They’re not my cards!” — I’d turned over the burn cards by mistake!

No-one else turned up til around 7pm, then everyone arrived in the next hour or so.

The Line up (starting at the button)
Andi, me, Tim, Emma, Liam, Ed, Dan, Adrian, Rosy, Mahinda

We started at around 830.
I took down the first pot… though things weren’t to get any better for me!.
Andi hit a straight flush on the second pot, the rarest of hands!
Tim was the first all-in’er, losing to Dan in the showdown.
I lost all my chips on an AK bluff - the only one I made all night (mistakenly, against Dan)
& rosy rebought too.
The rebuys then finished, a few people “Added-on”, including Andi & Dan.
Tim swiftly exited, unluckily.

10th Tim 1030pm ish

Pizza’s were ordered and consumed, and then the blinds went up…. and suddenly many of us were short-stacked, Adrian, Me, Rosy, Liam (who’d had been playing super-tight up until this point) all spring to mind. I’d yet to pair the board at this point (unusual!) and my only good hands, (TT, KK) hadn’t paid off for one reason or another (TT was taken down, KK everyone folded my modest pre-flop raise… grrrrr!)
Adrian was next to go

9th Adrian 1140pm

Before the blinds really took control and a flurry of dismissals occurred as players got more and more desperate.

8th Emma 1215am
7th Rosy 1225am
6th Pete 1235am
5th Dan 1255am
4th Mahinda 1255am

We’d gone ITM with the two old pro’s and Ed battling it out. It became a marathon session for which I dealt.

3rd Ed 140am

And then a huge heads up session. the cards were just not hitting!

Finally, Liam came out champion and took the £100 first prize. (total pot was £200).

2nd Andi 220am
1st Liam

Despite not doing so well, I thoroughly enjoyed it and have picked up on several areas in which I can improve. Can’t wait until the next one!

Afterwards several people trotted off home, Andi, Liam, Rosy and I stayed up and watched some randomly crap tv, I sloped off around 330.

Got up on sunday and immediately made bacon & Egg sarnies. Tidying up took most of the day before some footie \ 24 action in the evening.

A good weekend!