Abingdon Christmas game £10 re-buy report

12/23/2008 02:55:00 am / Posted by Rich / comments (0)

merry christmas

An impressive and accomplished gathering of team Fox and me arrived for the £10 re-buy Christmas game in Abingdon last Sunday. Considering we do tend to win wherever in the world we go in large numbers, I felt certain a Fox player would take down the tournament and cement our claim as pound for pound the most awesomest concentration of pokering talent in the whole of the galaxy.

Matt was in fine form winning a bottle of Vodka for the most re-buys (28). Every player received a consolation prize after busting out,....within twenty minutes of the start of the freeze-out stage the cash game was 8 handed and full of sorry looking Fox players with nothing but a box of chocolates, a few wine bottles and a yard of Jaffa cakes piled up in the corner next to the cash table to show for their efforts. Not the finest hour of the Windrush Valley Card Club to be fair.

A home away from home: Matt, Chris, Pete and Keiron wondering what might have been.

Meanwhile with only myself, Kathryn and Lazers flying the Fox flag the tournament was deep into crap shoot territory. Shove when you get the chance or fold was as sophisticated as it got and with pocket Jacks in the small blind I did just that only to run into Kings so hard I knocked myself out. Then there were two.

Lazers with plenty of tits...I mean chips

Unlucky for some, Kathryn eventually sucummbed in 13th place and Lazers became the last bastion of hope for the reputation of the Fox. Back on the cash table, Keiron was hitting straight flushes every other hand and despite significant verbal abuse was still sporting a hair-cut which was in fact three hair cuts in one. I didn't want to be the first to say it, but it's no wonder he only attracts ghostly ginger terrors with a barnet like that.

Kathryn wondering what the hell I'm taking pictures of

Back in the tournament Lazers was eventually swallowed up by the sky high blinds (I'm guessing here, I don't know how he eventually busted) but an excellent 6th place finish was about as good as we could have expected given 80% of our representatives had busted out some hours ago. Well played him for salvaging the reputation of the club sort of. Kind of.

It was not our finest evening out, but I like to think that given a decent structure that doesn't see almost everyone in shove or fold mode from the fourth blind level, we are more than likely going to clean up in most places.

A game of bingo is fun at Christmas and it was a great evening, so thank you to Nick for running the show, but I don't think we need to feel bad about our efforts. There are extenuating circumstances. Plus there was some distractions too, which would have compromised any red blooded male's concentration. You can read more about that on my blog.

At this point I'd like to extend to you and your families my best wishes for Christmas and the New Year. Good luck with all your bets.

Christmas Party update

12/16/2008 05:12:00 pm / Posted by Rich / comments (0)

It's possible Matt might have won the tournament, I just found these pictures on my phone.


Christmas party

12/16/2008 04:40:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

I've been trying to piece together the small flash backs and recollections from last night's Christmas party to put together some sort of tournament report, but alas I can't even remember playing in it, let alone tell you who won. Someone must have put something in my whiskey cause all I can remember is playing chess, or at least moving the pieces about and losing. I also saw some exciting footwear and I think Big Dick did pretty well in the cash game.

Big Dick celebrates his cash game success

As a general rule of thumb though I think the less you can recall about an evening the more enjoyable it must have been so I think it's fair to say the evening was a success. I don't know about you, but I've never felt more alive than when I wake up in the middle of the afternoon naked from the waist down with a police woman's hat covering up my modesty. Splendid stuff.

Moving on now, the schedule for January's games is yet to be decided, I think January 5th will be the next league night, although I'm sure a cash game or two will be available in the interim to anyone who can't wait that long.

Merry Christmas and God bless us everyone. Let's finish with a song.


Christmas Party - December 15th

12/09/2008 09:11:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)


Next Monday is our Christmas Party,

For a measly £40 you'll get a two course Christmas dinner with quaff-tastic free wine, and a £20 Dealers-Choice freeze-out with a £5 bounty. Tell your friends people, the more the merrier. If you don't have any friends, tell someone else's.

Please ring the pub: 01451 844385 to book it.

League Table inc. 08/12/08

12/09/2008 09:07:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (2)

Reminder!

12/06/2008 08:49:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)


Monday's (December 8th) £100 freeze-out will start at 7:00pm

Very very very important stuff

12/02/2008 03:07:00 am / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

Regarding up coming games people;

7PM START DECEMBER 8TH


Next week will be a £100 freeze-out with a 7pm start instead of the usual 8pm. This game was initially advertised as a double chance, but that would mean giving everyone 20,000 chips and we don't have the time for this (as some of you work apparently) without making it a crap shoot.

Soooooo,....just to reiterate cause I won't tell you again - the game on Monday December 8th will be a 7pm start with 10,000 chips and a £100 buy-in (plus £4) and it'll be a straight freeze-out. We'll almost certainly have antes too in order to guarantee an end to the tournament before 3am. Are we clear? No, OK I'll remind you later in the week.

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DEALERS CHOICE GAME AND CHRISTMAS DINNER
DECEMBER 15TH


The Christmas party will be on December 15th. The game will be a £20 freeze-out with a £5 bounty and the two course dinner will be £15. All this people for a total price of only £40!! The club will provide Mulled Wine on arrival, and free wine at dinner, as well as an extra bounty on seat 1 of each table. Great value credit-crunch dinner and poker tournament.

Please do come along and support your club, you won't get a better and cheaper evening out for the price. Please either let me know or ring the pub: 01451 844385 to book it, and let us know if you would like Turkey, Beef or Veggie.

League table inc. 01/12/08 £40 freeze-out

12/02/2008 03:05:00 am / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

Next game - £40 freeze-out - December 1st

11/29/2008 06:37:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

Monday's game on December 1st will be a £40 freeze-out. As it's the first Monday of the month it'll be a food night so total buy-in will be £50 or a bulls-eye in common speak.

Let's hope for more than the hard-core 12 runners who showed up for the £20 Omaha re-buy last week which was played out in arctic conditions - the first ever re-buy tournament to also be a freeze-out at the same time... eventually won by Gideon, who without a doubt has sold his soul to the devil in my honest opinion.

The card room was a bit nippy if the truth be told

With so few runners the final table was settled before the first break. Matt and myself were out towards the end of the re-buy period and Big Dick busted out on the last hand before the break and was last seen telling Kathryn he was going out for a walk and maybe some time.

The final table was basically just a bunch of hands where chips were moved from player to player until Gideon inevitably caught the hands he needed to bust everyone.

Meanwhile at the other end of the card room the cash game players were all huddled together using each others body heat to remain conscious wondering whether or not Matt was still alive and weighing up the moral consequences of eating him if it came to that.

League Table inc. 24/11/08 £20 Omaha re-buy

11/29/2008 06:35:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

One of a kind

11/22/2008 09:00:00 am / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

Today is the tenth anniversary of the death of Stuey 'the kid' Ungar. They say he was the best poker player ever. Not sure how he'd have fared in one of our £10 re-buys with Big Dick to his left, but it's clear he could play a bit. His auto-biography "one of a kind" is well worth a read. Inspirational but very sad also.

Anyway, if you've got a few minutes the videos below are the from the final table of the 1997 WSOP main event. His third and final success.










League table inc. 17/11/08

11/18/2008 02:08:00 pm / Posted by Rich / comments (0)

League table inc. 10/11/08

11/11/2008 12:29:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

A shining example of poker

11/11/2008 06:00:00 am / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

When the unrelenting horror of Keiron Baker’s hack and slash style of play is unleashed on an unsuspecting poker tournament it becomes something akin to a scene from the Shining.

A surreal, murderous encounter played out between realities with diminutive ghostly figures looking on who have no apparent reason for being there. Had Stanley Kubrick been a poker director, Keiron would have been his kind of Johnny and a Fox £10 re-buy his kind of game.

There was an eerie feel to the evening - the cold dank atmosphere, the leaking roof, the smell of rotting apple crumble - as if the room had become a physical manifestation of Keiron’s subconscious.

After his victory last week, which has yet to be explained by the lab boys, a repeat appeared to be a possibility after a typically volatile re-buy period saw him enter the freeze-out stage with an above average stack, but became an almost inevitability mid-way through the tournament with approximately most of the chips in play stacked in front of him and everyone else reduced to all-in or fold poker.

"All-in and no play makes Keiron a dull boy"

It’s difficult to explain how without complex equations and a truly world class psychiatrist, but none of those things were available to those confronted with this pink shirted leviathan. Some truly creative play saw him bust Milo (8-8) and Wino (9-10 suited) in one hand when his Ace-8 somehow built itself into a straight. A few hands later a rivered deuce saw him bust Chris’ Ace-7 with a dominated Ace-2.

By this time Keiron was consumed with bloodlust fever and rapidly began loosing his sanity, his catatonic ginger railbird stared on lustfully and I fought hard to back swallow some sick as preparations were made for the final table.

With nine live bodies remaining, the final table began

As the final table began and a slew of bodies littered the card room, one expected the slaughter to continue. Not so much tentative stabs at pots from Keiron, as wild hacks with a metaphorical axe. But no!

One or two early blows to his stack saw confusion begin to set in and weaknesses exposed. Like poor mentalist Johnny scratching around in the deep snow howling at the moon desperately searching for his son in order to finish him off, Keiron, completely incoherent and delusional now, lost his way too.

Through sheer good chance however he was able to shove chips into a couple of pots at the right moments to eliminate a few players and although barely conscious by now he was able to make it to heads-up with a chip lead.

The final confrontation was not a long one however. Some misdirection from Richard Taylor and soon the chip lead changed hands and the final hand saw him take down the tournament with the worst hand, when he paired his Jack (ironically) and his five. Keiron, cold decked, was finally frozen-out.


League Table inc. 03/11/08

11/06/2008 09:40:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (1)

League Table inc. £50 +1+1 27/10/08

10/28/2008 03:42:00 am / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

Attenzione!

10/21/2008 03:30:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

Now that we've gone electronic, there is no excuse for dilly dallying about and having start times for our games ranging from 8:15pm to somewhere close to 9:00pm. Consequently I have no choice but to become poker direction's equivalent to Benito Mussolini, the Fox squadristi if you will...if he can get his trains running on time I ought to be able to get a few poker tournaments going on time too.

Therefore my people, from Monday the seating plans will be posted at 8:00pm and the games will begin at 8:05pm on the dot! even if I'm the only one in the room. I will allow moochers into the tournaments up to 8:15pm, but anyone arriving after that who hasn't had the common decency to ring first will not only be denied entry to our wonderful games, but also taken out to the beer garden, tied up with piano wire and beaten savagely.

Tournament report £5 re-buy annual cup

10/21/2008 03:37:00 am / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (2)

I can't fully articulate the nature of the carnage I witnessed this evening. They say a picture is worth a thousands words however...

League table inc. 20/10/08 Annual Cup

10/21/2008 02:32:00 am / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

Annual Cup tonight

10/20/2008 04:14:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)


Tonight is the Annual Cup II. It was previously advertised as a £10 re-buy, but in fact it's a £5 re-buy with a £5 bounty. For that I can only apologise.

Tournament Report £20 re-buy October 13th

10/14/2008 03:35:00 am / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (1)

£20 re-buy
October 13th.
18 runners

GERMANY 2-1 RUSSIA

Only 18 runners for this one, but a decent prize pool nonetheless mostly thanks to Matt’s contribution of approximately 80 re-buys. “Credit crunches, I shit ‘em,” was his mantra and from the off his raising chips were in the saddle and rode us all like bitches…all except the Big Dick in the two seat who rode him back. Matt was last seen out by the river staring at the sky talking to a cloud.

With about £1,700 in monies to play for the proper poker began after the break with a disgusting series of events from my point of view. With nothing much in the way of cards coming my way I decided to offer up some chips with a hand that was nothing more than a poker objet trouvé - a classic nay school boy error. The flop giving me top pair was enough for me to shove my remaining goo in the middle only for Jonathon of Miles to insta-call with a slow played set of threes. Bastard! A perfectly executed coup de théâtre sent me to the sidelines with empty pockets and an empty heart. After you with the cloud Matt.

A bunch of stuff quickly ensued on the other tables I wasn’t much interested in or paying any attention to and in no time at all we were down to a final table of nine with Joey of Aizpura our chip leader with a stack of approximately millions.

The early exchanges were frantic, probably, I don’t know, my view was obscured by Lucky Jim’s right hand, but I do know the eponymous farmer wasn’t so lucky in one hand and exited first from the final table after someone had a much better hand than his.

Twiz was next out, flushed by Nick and then the shit really hit the fan. Kapow, Oooooof, biffo, it was anarchy, chips flying in every which way… raise, re-raise, ALL-IN CALL CALL!! Wino v Gideon v Martin. Wino tabled AK of hearts, Gideon clearly assuming the lord was still on his side showed 2-2, leaving Martin’s Q-Q in great shape. Queen high flop and the turn and river both blanks and we were down to 5. I wasn’t even involved but lord be my witness the adrenalin was pumping now, I had rarely felt so alive and it wasn't over yet by jingo.

I had hardly caught my breath in fact by the time Pete had his chips in the middle too!! Although to be fair this was between 40 minutes to an hour later, I just didn’t have my inhaler with me. Pete 's 4-4 was in poor shape against Paul of Peros’ Q-Q and even Buddha was unable to influence the outcome and we were four handed.

Not many flops were being seen at this point, mostly just raise and take it stuff, and I then took an ill timed visit to the toilet as Joey got busy being knocking himself out of the tournament. I shall confess I may have made it back in time to witness his demise, but I spent a couple of minutes making lion noises to myself in the mirror. Let’s just say for the sake of posterity that Joey got his chips in the middle with 10-10 and Martin rivered a straight after calling a 30,000 bet with 8-2 off-suit. Something cool like that.

Down to three and again it was mostly the pre-flop raiser who took the pot down. We were waiting for two big hands to collide like Lucky Jim trying to catch a cricket ball and the inevitable occurred presently. It was a race – Paul of Peros with 3-3 against the big slick of young Nick. Ace on the flop though and we were heads-up.

With not much occurring during the early exchanges and the chip stacks roughly even, Nick or "Nikoli" went all Russian on us and offered up poker’s equivalent to Perestroika with a proposal the money be split. A leftie, pinko, communist gesture compatible with the global economic mood at present and Martin agreed. Glasnost was the winner, but although no one won or lost in financial terms, the remaining points were still up for grabs and a penalty shoot-out was to ensue to settle the matter.

Ever since young Martin regaled me with tales of his school days where he would play conkers in the school playground on a cold misty autumnal morning before scampering indoors as the morning bell rang to then embark on a terrifying anti-semetic baiting of his Jewish teacher by leading his class mates in five minutes of solid Seig Hailing, I suspected his heritage was Teutonic in flavour and so it proved as he showed nerves of steal to win the tournament via the penalty shoot-out against hapless Russian defector Nikoli Dobsononovic 2-1.


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League Table inc. 13/10/08 £20 re-buy

10/14/2008 03:30:00 am / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

League Table as of right now

10/07/2008 05:02:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)


At this time I'd like to call for a ban on all religious trinkets and the use of witch craft during tournament play. It freaks me out.

AGM and upcoming games

9/30/2008 04:29:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (2)

I'll be honest with you, while I was physically at the AGM, I do not remember it. I'm afraid I was struck down with some sort of rare tropical form of lassa fever and was unable to concentrate. However, I'll make some stuff up just cause I feel I should.


It was decided that pretty much everything will stay the same, and some other stuff. Chris, Pete, Matt will be doing stuff as will Jimbo and myself. We'll all be doing something. I Just can't be specific at this time as to what. But it will be something awesome.

Upcoming games are as follows:-

October

6th - £40 freeze-out, Hold 'em - Buy-in will be £50 as it's a food night

*Oh yes, I remember this. The first Monday of the month game, usually a £10 re-buy will now be a £40 freeze-out. The buy-in will incorporate an extra £10. £8 for food and £2 for the high hand. No admin fee will be incurred.

13th - £20 re-buy, Hold 'em.

20th - ANNUAL CUP - £5 re-buy, Hold 'em with £5 bounty

27th - £50 + 1 re-buy + top-up, Hold 'em

November

3rd - £40 freeze-out - £50 buy-in see above,* Hold 'em

10th - £10 re-buy, Hold 'em

17th - £25 freeze-out, Hold 'em

24th - £20 re-buy, Omaha

December

1st - £40 freeze-out - £50 buy-in see above,* Hold 'em

8th - £100 Freeze-out, Hold 'em

15th - £20 Christmas Dealers Choice shenanigans.

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I will update the league for week 5 when I can drive again. Possibly tomorrow.

Windrush Valley Card Club Message Board

9/24/2008 04:39:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

Alan has very awesomely set up a message board forum for our wee club. This will give us a vehicle to abuse each other seven days a week and allow us to enter Poker Forum team events which we'd obviously take down with ease.

Forum can be found here - Windrush Valley Card Club Forum

League table as of September 23rd

9/24/2008 01:12:00 am / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

League table as of September 16th

9/23/2008 05:26:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

I don't have the results from Monday's game (22nd) as I had to rush off early because I'd left my washing out, bloody rain! As of week 3 Gideon who doth trumpet people to death is still winning, but probably Chris is going to win again this year so shall we all not bother?

Next week is the AGM, people - that's the 29th so show up early - 6.30pm start. You will surrender your future complaining rights if you're not there I'm afraid.

The story of Gideon

9/15/2008 02:00:00 am / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

"The Midianites were in utter confusion, and Gideon won an easy victory" - Judges 6 and 7

League Table as of September 9th

AGM cancelled due to sticky wicket

9/14/2008 11:29:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

The AGM was canceled because the conditions were too moist and because no one bothered to show up. It was determined however that Jimbo has three nipples.

A new date for the AGM might possibly be Monday September 29th, although I may have made that up.

AGM - Sunday

9/12/2008 04:44:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

The AGM will take place at 6pm Sunday September 14th. That's 18 hundred hours for those of you who watch too many war films.

Please attend if you can, you can miss going to B&Q just this once.

Also, the emails for upcoming games will continue.

The End.

September games and AGM

9/02/2008 01:06:00 am / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

New season now people and the emailing will soon cease and this website will be your source of all things WV Card Cluby and pokery.

September's scheduled games are as follows (All games begin 8pm SHARP!):

September 1st - £10 re-buy with food. Free buffet for anyone bringing a new player

September 8th - £50 freezout

September 15th - £20 re-buy + £20 bounty (£40 buy-in in total)

September 22nd - £50 freezeout

September 29th - £40 freezeout with "Lucky 6" £20 bounty (£60 buy-in in total)*

*all players names will be placed in a hat and six drawn - these players will have the bounty on their heads. Bounty will be £100. Subject to change.

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Annual General Meeting

The new season's AGM will be held on Sunday 14th of September at 6pm. There may be just be a chance for some jiggery pokery after the meeting.

If you have any issues you would like raising at this meeting either mention them at the games prior to the AGM or send them to the email address on this website.

Splendid.

Now then people

7/01/2008 05:28:00 am / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

Good day to you. So, due to Mel moving to one her majesties colonies soon, the weekly emailing and league compilation and what not has passed to me. I can't be doing with all that so we'll be using this blog come website instead.

Once we've circulated the address to enough members the emails will stop and you'll be able to just visit us here for news on forthcoming tournaments, league standings, random poker news and gossip and possibly some nice recipes.

There's an email address too for us on the right somewhere for you know, emailing in and that.



Rich Stevenson "little dick"