Christmas Party 21 December

12/15/2009 07:19:00 pm / Posted by Rich / comments (0)



Right then, now then, now then, right then...the details of our Christmas Party and that: the total monies for this evening will be £50, or a bullseye if you're from the under classes. £20 for the meal and wines and what not and £30 for the game which I understand will be some sort of bounty game.

I should think kick off will be somewhere in the region of 7pm.

When I said these are the details, what I really meant was this is roughly what's happening. In my experience Christmas parties should have some wiggle room to accommodate last minute moments of inspiration.

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Christmas Party 21st December

12/15/2009 03:31:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)



People,

The Windrush Valley Card Club's Christmas Party will take place next Monday - December 21st. Details, like Ethiopian children, are thin on the ground (is that in poor taste? I've been on my own for two weeks so I've lost some social graces I'm afraid) - but anyway, details will emerge over the next 24 hours or so please keep checking back.

It'll be a turkey/beef dinner with many wines and other drinks followed by a bounty type freeze-out poker game.

Kick-off times and prices will be posted ASAP. Somewhere in the region of 7.3opm and between £50 - £80 I reckon.

Hope to see you all there, there really is no excuses for not celebrating the birth of the baby Jesus with us, unless you're an 'orrible evil islamic Turk or something of that sinister nature, but even if you are you should still come anyway.


Coochy-coo: The ickle baby Jesus 2009 years ago.

Final Game Chip Counts

9/02/2009 12:22:00 am / Posted by Rich / comments (0)

Chip counts for the final game next Monday (September 6th) are as follows:

Chris Peros..3,750
Gideon Long..2,950
Paul Porter..2,575
Matthew Bowden..2,400
John Salmon..2,350
Paul Peros..2,125
Mark Waites..2,075
Kathryn Brown..2,000
Jim Gladwin..1,950
Andy Perrie..1,675
Nick Dobson..1,625
Joe Azipuru..1,550
Little Dick..1,450
Big Dick..1,425
James Norden..1,350
Jason Oliver..1,200

Each player will also have the option of buying 5,000 more raising chips for £50.

Kick off will be 8.10pm - It'll be a black tie affair unless you wear something more casual.

il buono il brutto il cattivo

8/25/2009 04:56:00 pm / Posted by Rich / comments (0)

Here is the final league table. Chris Peros is our Champion and why not. League points will be converted into raising chips on a ratio of 25 chips per league point. A further 5,000 raising chips will be available to each finalist for the very reasonable sum of £50.

By my calculations which I've just done on my fingers we should have somewhere in the region of £1500 to play for if everyone claims the extra chips. You could buy 15 awesome Space Lego sets for that so it's worth playing for.

The final shootout will take place on Monday September 7th - kick-off 8.10pm.


Two becomes one

8/18/2009 03:29:00 am / Posted by Rich / comments (0)

Our penultimate game of the season was a bruising encounter one which none of us who played in it or witnessed it will forget until at least tomorrow lunch time.


Our final game will be next Monday's £30 freeze-out with buffet (£40 buy-in) after which we will have a week off. The Grand Finale will be played on September 7th. Only 9 buy-ins required to qualify for the game - each league point converted into 25 raising chips. An additional 5,000 chips can be bought on the night for a bullseye, two ponies, or just £50. IT'S UP TO YOU.




The Final Countdown

8/16/2009 02:56:00 am / Posted by Rich / comments (0)

With just two games of the season remaining it's all getting so exciting I'm literally shitting tension. Who people, who will be the 2009 Windrush Valley Card Club Champion? Will Chris of Peros' chip lead be enough to see him manouever his way through the grand final field? Or will we see one of the shorties David their way past Peros' Goliath with a pokering equivalent of a sharp pebble to the eye?

In your eye you big hairy Arab bastard


Andy Perrie, Pete Spedding and Nick Dobson are one game away from qualification; Jason Oliver will need to play both remaining games.



League update and crossword solution

8/04/2009 05:43:00 pm / Posted by Rich / comments (0)

A seven letter word for "attics" is of course Garrets.

Monday's game was an horrific carnage involving draws and out-draws not seen since Wild Bill Hickock was new to the game. Andy Perrie was the last man standing and this means with only three games left in the season nothing really exciting has happened as far as the league table is concerned. But this is it anyway:

As we speak we have 13 confirmed runners for the Final game in September with another 6 runners who can still make it. Those runners be: Neil of Gladding, Paul of Lazenbury, Nick of Dobson - who has not been seen since the Rosè challenge and we have heard tell of serious concern amongst his family members for his welfare, Jason of Oliver, Pete of Spedding and Monday's victor - Andy of Perrie.

If anyone has seen Nick Dobson please contact us immediately.

£5 re-buy tonight

8/03/2009 02:43:00 pm / Posted by Rich / comments (0)

We're in our last month of the season people. Tonight's £5 re-buy is the first of our four remaining games and by lord it promises to be a ripsnorter. The league winner market (without Chris Peros) on Betfair is a traders dream. It's all just so bally exciting it's playing havoc with my stress incontinence.

See you all this evening. Anyone wishing to know what a ripsnorter is can see me before the game.

Season Finale, League table and any other bidness

7/28/2009 12:03:00 pm / Posted by Rich / comments (0)

Season Finale and League Table update inc. July 27th £30 freeze-out

With my deepest apologies for tardiness, here is the updated league table. We have four games remaining before the Grand Finale which will be held the Monday following the August bank holiday which, if my calendar is anything like yours, will be Monday September 4th.

In order to qualify for the final you must have played at least 9 games. League points will be converted into chips using the Duckworth Lewis method, players will also have the option of purchasing 5,000 further chips for a measly £50.

Any other business

A meeting was held in my house last night between me and my conscience and it was decreed that under no circumstances will the player Richard J. Stevenson, aka, "Little Dick," aka "Golden Delicious," aka "WarBwastard," aka, "Asno" and all other aliases known or unknown, be permitted to partake in any sports or proposition wagering § or card games ‡ where English monies are staked, while under the influence of Rosè.

Any attempts by said player to place wagers or partake in card games where English monies have been or can be staked will result in the player being thrown in the river for his own good whether he can swim or not and whether he's wearing his best clothes or not.


‡- Card games in this instance is a blanket term for any game or games known at this time or unknown which involve one or a number of card or cards of a standard deck of playing card or multiple decks.

§ - Proposition wagering in this instance include all pub games, for example: Spoof, Liars Dice and olive eating competitions and certainly anything that involves darts..and all other games known or unknown - also any project, task, idea, assertion or statement that might reasonably lead to the loss of money or monies and dignity through speculation, gambling or forecasting.

Motion carried.


Tonight's game July 27th

7/27/2009 12:50:00 pm / Posted by Rich / comments (0)

Tonight's game will be a £30 freeze-out - with buffet at the break. £40 buy-in - 5,000 starting chips. There will be a moment's silence before the game begins as my head still hurts from last week's Rosè challenge.

Two sips of Rosè and her game goes to pieces

7/22/2009 01:42:00 pm / Posted by Rich / comments (0)

Kathryn hides her face in shame after surrendering what appeared to be an unassailable lead while an looker, oblivious to the humiliation, falls asleep.

Dragon's Den BBC2 tonight 9pm

7/22/2009 01:17:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

JJ Hazen on Dragon's Den tonight asking for £65,000 to stake him in poker tournaments.  Should be interesting.  Don't fancy his chances.


The blood of Christ almighty

7/22/2009 09:50:00 am / Posted by Rich / comments (0)

It's now 9.50am on Wednesday. I just woke up. I got home and went to bed at 9am Tuesday. Dear Lord our God, if wine be the blood of Christ your son, then he needs a fucking transfusion. It's Holy alright, holy fucking shit!!

Thanks to a few sociable glasses of Rosè, I've lost a day and a half of my life. Who knows what I might have achieved in that time? The last thing I remember is busting out of the cash-game with 6 high and a little bit of poo coming out from laughing as Jimbo announced a near stampede had occurred when Kathryn had gone off to lick her wound.

I haven't had a hang-over this brutal since Vegas when I was in such poor shape I looked in the mirror and could see through me. I'm afraid I have no idea who won the tournament on Monday, or who was in it so I can't update the league table.

If anyone has seen my telephone and a grey hiking sock please let me know. I'm officially on the wagon now for at least six months. My the Lord have mercy on my soul.


Amen.

League table as of 13th July

7/20/2009 01:10:00 am / Posted by Rich / comments (0)

League table and stuff

7/13/2009 04:18:00 am / Posted by Rich / comments (0)


With only six or seven games left in the season, I forget which, it's all getting very very very interesting at the top of the table with Chris Peros ahead but some other people fairly close. Who will win out? Who, who?

In other news, the £5 re-buy went ahead last week, but it may be changed next month as it's a bit shit. I shall try and offer up more than a few hours notice if it does change.

Sport now, England were lucky as fuck to escape with a draw in the first test match and ruin my bet, but had to resort to underhand time wasting tactics by constantly bringing their physio onto the pitch who had disgusting man boobs.

Finally the weather, it was a bit chilly earlier.

Game change this evening - a taste of paradise

7/06/2009 02:34:00 pm / Posted by Rich / comments (0)

There's been a military style coup! Consequently, tonight's £5 re-buy will almost certainly be replaced with a £30 freeze-out with a £10 bounty. Your buy-in will therefore be £42. Starting chips of 5,000. You will receive a £10 bounty for every player you bust.

Apologies for the short notice, but these uprisings typically arrive with little or no notice. We feel it's for the best though. Good luck with all your bets.

Good Lord!!

7/02/2009 04:28:00 pm / Posted by Rich / comments (0)

Congratulations to Twiz are in order as Keltic Lord won today at Perth leading from start to finish.

And they're off..and Keltic Lord is prominent

19 fences later - Winner!

Celebrating with a bucket of water to the cock. The horse not Twiz.
Maybe Twiz too actually, off camera though thankfully.

League table as of right now

6/30/2009 04:15:00 am / Posted by Rich / comments (0)

Big game tonight

6/29/2009 02:15:00 pm / Posted by Rich / comments (0)


£100 freeze-out - 10,000 chips, 30 minute clock - 8pm start - and stuff.

Stocks in the money

6/26/2009 11:55:00 pm / Posted by Rich / comments (0)

Stocks going very well in the $1500 PLO hi/lo - currently 75,000 in chips - 16th from remaining 36 (762 runners) left and now well in the money.

Follow his progress here: Event 48 $1,500 PLO hi/lo

Update: Ouch!


Update: Stocks finishes 28th, unfortunately one spot below a prize money jump, but great performance. All those nights trying to beat the Fox cash game have paid off.

June 29th - "the big game"

6/22/2009 02:09:00 am / Posted by Rich / comments (0)

Since we have five Monday's this month we thought we'd have a £100 freeze-out next Monday (29th) and why not indeed?

P'raps if this buy-in is too much for most pockets in these frugal times we can arrange some £10 SnG satellites for the event?

If I can remind myself I'll shall raise this very issue tomorrow night. In fact I'll write it down now so I don't forget.

Good evening.

Juuuune 22nd game - £30 freeze-out

6/22/2009 01:34:00 am / Posted by Rich / comments (0)


This evening we will host a £30 freeze-out with a £40 buy-in, 5,000 starting chips and a buffet fit for a king; a king who likes curry and chips, but a king nonetheless.

Come on down and grab a chair, it won't be the same if you're not there.

There may be some poetry readings after the game.

Monday's game - June 15th

6/14/2009 02:33:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)


I will not be able to attend this cornucopia of poker so there won't be as much value as usual, but pop along anyway, bring the kids, there's fun for the whole family.

League table inc. June 8th £20 +£20

6/14/2009 02:29:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

Juuuuuuuuuuuuune

6/07/2009 09:47:00 pm / Posted by Rich / comments (1)



I just noticed it is now June and with June comes five Mondays. FIVE I TELLS YA! I'm afraid I've been terribly remiss by excluding our plans for the fifth Monday. Better late than never though, particularly when womens periods are concerned am I right or am I right or am I right? Right, sooooooo, Monday June 29th will be a deepstack £100 freeze-out.


Now we recognise that our whole mantra for this season was all about accommodating this Gordon Brown induced credit crunch into our buy-ins - so between now and the event you'll be able to pay in installments. Just see me on game nights and I'll keep your payments nice and safe until the 29th. You can trust me I'm a Doctor...or at least I watch M*A*S*H every night which is the same.

So anyway yes, the chips will be 10,000 in number and the clock 30 in minutes. Much play there will be, much play. Budget for a late night though. Any questions, please email in - not that one about where babies come from though - or see me on any given Monday.

The end.

League table inc. 25th May £30 freeze-out

5/26/2009 03:05:00 am / Posted by Rich / comments (0)

Bank Holiday Monday game

5/25/2009 05:21:00 am / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

It's a bank holiday, but why not forgo the traditional visit to a DIY store and the viewing of the World's Strongest Man competition on BBC1 and head over to the Fox for a friendly game of poker instead?


Tonight we have a £30 freeze-out with a difference..the difference being it'll cost you £40! But though, for that extra £10 you get 5,000 raising chips, a buffet and a pokering experience unique to the Windrush Valley Card Club. Hours of fun for all the family aged over 18.

What's wrong, skeeeeered?

League table as of May 18th

5/19/2009 04:42:00 pm / Posted by Rich / comments (0)

There was no poker on Monday, but whatever game was played was won by Ean Branston. Next week will be a return to playing proper poker with a £30 freeze-out with 5,000 starting chips and no calling substantial raises because you just sort of feel like it.


League table inc. May 11th game.

5/13/2009 09:54:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

Monday 11th game

5/11/2009 05:22:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

Bit late with this, but tonight's game will be a £20 freeze-out with an optional re-buy or add on. See the panel on the left for details.

8:00pm start.

I will be updating the league after tonight's game. Next week's game will a £10 re-buy.

That is all.

League table

4/15/2009 10:07:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

Next Monday's game will be a £10 re-buy. Kick-off at 8pm. £22 buy-in - 2,000 starting chips. £10 re-buys (2,000chips) for 3 x 30 minutes levels, then 20 minute clock. Cash games available as the tournament breaks up - No Limit Hold 'em 25p-50p blinds.


And we're off

4/10/2009 07:17:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

New season same sort of result.

Chris of Peros was our winner, succeeding despite sporting a rather sinister goatee. The league table will appear when we've played a few more games.

Despite being a bank holiday next Monday we will have a game on. We don't think Jesus will mind. If anyone does encounter any fire and brimstone on the way to the club we can only apologise.

Our game will be a £20 + £20 freeze-out. Starting chips of 3,000, with the option of a further 3,000 any time during the first three levels. We kick-off as usual at 8:00pm (on time this time) and we hope to see all the new faces once again.

Our league will be running for 18 weeks. In order to qualify for our final game big game in September, you will need to have played in at least 9 games.

Each point accumulated throughout the season will be converted into 25 chips. Everyone will also have the opportunity on the night of buying a further 5,000 chips for £50. Clear? Good. See you all on Monday. New players very welcome.

Season opener tonight

4/06/2009 05:32:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

It's time people. New season kicks off tonight with a gentle £5 re-buy. No Limit Texas Hold 'em - 8:00pm start. We're adding £200 to the prize-pool and offering up a free buffet too.

I simply can't imagine a more exciting Monday evening that doesn't involve Felicity Kendall slightly drunk and desperate to remove her muddy clothing. So anyway yes, splendid woo, jolly good.



New season - First night

3/22/2009 02:33:00 am / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)



Here we go then people. Our new season will kick-off on April 6th with a £5 re-buy and 8:00pm start. Details of this game and our other games can be found on the side bar and also the new league structure.

For our first event, we'll be adding £200 to the prize pool and there will also be a free buffet.

Apparently we've been Face-Booked too now. So if you're a Face-Bookee and want to keep up to date with our comings and goings then please search for us under the name "Windrush Valley Card Club."

See you all on April 6th.

Change we can believe in

3/17/2009 02:44:00 am / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)


The Cheltenham Festival game was chopped three ways, between Jimbo, Chris and myself - Dick of Little, although it's been widely accepted that I played the most awesome and so for season 2008-09, that, as they say, is all she wrote.  I do so love a happy ending.

The new season's details have yet to be thrashed out but we're due to kick off again on Monday April 6th. Our whole league structure and buy-ins are being adjusted to accommodate the financial mess America and Gordon Brown have imposed on everyone.

Essentially, we need a change people...a change we can believe in. With this in mind we'll be looking to provide games with a cheaper buy-in and our cash games will now be made available to those who aren't willing to finance their buy-ins with the sale of a kidney.

The tentative schedule is as follows:

We want to run four games - each game will be played on the same Monday every month.

1st Monday of the month - £5 re-buy
2nd Monday of the month - £25 + £25 freeze-out
3rd Monday of the month - £10 re-buy
4th Monday of the month - £30 freeze-out with buffet

Cash games will begin as the tournament breaks up and will be Texas Hold 'em with 25p-50p or 50p-£1 blinds with a maximum buy-in of £100.

There will be a re-structured league also. Hopefully the details will be finalised later this week.

Please keep checking the website, but in the meantime a German rock ballad.


Club meeting on Sunday

3/06/2009 02:28:00 am / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

A meeting to discuss changes to the game choices and buy-ins will be held this Sunday before the Cheltenham game at 4pm.  Please attend if you can, even if you are not intending to play the Cheltenham game so we can have as much input as possible to make future games more appealing.  

Satellites for Sunday's main event are available from 2pm so why not make an afternoon of it?  There's nothing on telly.


Cheltenham game start time change

3/03/2009 07:21:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)


The start time for Sunday's (March 8th) Cheltenham festival game will now be 5:00pm instead of 2:30pm, this is so everyone has time to get back from church.  

The admin fee for the game has been reduced also to £10 from £20.  Still a £250 total buy-in but with £240 instead of £230 for the prize-pool.

Satellite's for this main event can be arranged from 2:00pm the same afternoon.  Five handed tables £50 freeze-outs.  

High Stakes Poker Season 5 Episode 1

3/02/2009 06:10:00 am / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)







No shows for the play-off game

2/27/2009 06:11:00 am / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

So far Paul Peros and Frank Hogarty are unable to play next Monday's end of season play-off game.  Big Dick and Richard Taylor are the next in line to take their places.  Not sure if I have Richard Taylor's email so if anyone bumps into him please let him know.

If anyone else cannot make it please let us know asap. League places and chip counts for the play-off game can be found here.   Thanking you please.


League Play-Off Game Monday 2nd March

2/24/2009 07:03:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

Next Monday March 2nd will be the league play-off game. Four seats for the Cheltenham Festival game are up for grabs. The fifth place finisher will be awarded a cash prize somewhere in the region of an awesome £15, which we suggest should not be spent all at once.

If you have not finished in the top 16 but would like to play the Cheltenham game you can buy in directly on the day, March 8th with a 2:30pm kick-off for £230+20. We'll have a 40 minute clock and 10,000 starting chips.

The top 16 players who have qualified for the play-off (with chips counts) are shown below: 25 chips per point. If you have qualified but know you cannot make the game please let us know as soon as possible so we can register another player.



Monday's game £10 re-buy satellite

2/21/2009 08:53:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

Monday's game will be a £10 re-buy. It's a satellite tournament into the £230+£20 Cheltenham Festival game on March 8th at 2.30pm.

One seat per £250 obviously, the remaining monies given as a cash prize. 8.05pm start as usual. Well worth having a stab at this as the Cheltenham game usually offers a pretty decent prize pool.

Final league placings and stuff

2/17/2009 03:56:00 am / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

Due to a miscalculation with the schedule, Monday night's game was in fact the last game of our abbreviated season. Jimbo of Norden was the winner beating Paul of Peros and that as they say, is that.

Next Monday (February 23rd) will be a satellite for the Cheltenham Festival £250 freeze-out to be held on Sunday March 8th at 2.30pm. The satellite tournament will be a £10 re-buy NLHE starting at the usual time of 8:05pm. One seat entered into the Cheltenham game per £250. Bring many many £10 notes, it's for the best.

The end of season play-off game will be held the following Monday on March 2nd. So then, Gideon Long is our new Champion. Points totals and chip counts for the play-off game for the Cheltenham Festival tournament are as follows.


Thank you to everyone who has played this season, keep checking this blog for details of the new season which should start late March or early April.

Feb 16th game

2/15/2009 11:13:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)


Monday's game will be a £20 Texas Hold 'em re-buy. Three 30 minute levels for the re-buys; 2,000 chips; twenty minute clock for the freeze-out period.

I've done some equations and estimate the game will end around 12.37:21am.

Next game - Monday February 16th and league table

2/12/2009 01:59:00 am / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

The next game on February 16th will be a Texas Hold 'em £20 re-buy - 2,000 chips - 3 x 30 minutes levels for re-buy period, 20 minutes thereafter. It won't be snowing next week they tell me so hope to see more runners.

Last weeks game was contested by 14 hearty souls, sort of, accumulating a healthy £720 prize pool shared between me and two farmers.

Result

1. Little Dick £360
2. Farmer Pickles £220
3. Farmer Jim £140

League table


League table inc. 02/02/09 £40 freeze-out

2/04/2009 04:20:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

Monday's tournament was played out by a hard-core 13 runners who weren't going to let a few centimeters of crystallised water stand in the way of a roaring good night of poker. Mark Waites was the eventual winner and why not?

Next Monday's game is a £10 re-buy. Pot Limit Omaha for a change though and hopefully the snow will melt in time to allow the delicate lambs to come along who couldn't cope with the snow.

Monday's game - Feb. 2nd

1/30/2009 04:56:00 am / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

First Monday of the month £40 freeze-out - 4,000 chips - 3 x 30 minute levels then 20 min. clock. Food night so total buy-in will be £50.

February's game are listed on the side bar. Good day to you.

League Table inc. "beginners" game 26/01/09

1/27/2009 07:36:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

In lieu of any actual new players, Monday's tournament was played vicariously through the minds of the beginner players who didn't show up. Some awesomely donkish moves were made consistently through the game including a beauty by myself which was good enough to see the Salmon fished from the tournament and viciously cursing me and my extended family from the 2 seat of the cash table within seconds. Hee hee happy days!

Matt Bowden was the eventual victor, winning a penalty shoot-out against myself after a 60-40 chop of the monies, which reflected his chip lead at the heads-up stage. Next week's game will be a £40 freeze-out with a £50 buy-in due to the scrumptious buffet available with all four food groups represented, give or take two or three of them.

Final Result

1. Matt Bowden
2. Richard "little dick" Stevenson
3. Simon Stocken
4. Richard Davids

League Table


Also, there will be a backgammon tournament held on Friday February 6th. More details to follow.

A backgammon board yesterday

Game next week and league table

1/20/2009 08:14:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

Next week's game will be a £25 freeze-out with one optional £25 re-buy or add-on, with 2,500 starting chips. This re-buy/add-on (for another 2,500 chips) will be available at any time during the re-buy period (2x40 minute levels) regardless of stack size or can be taken at the end of the second level before the break.

Hopefully we will see some new players for this one so do try and make an effort to bring someone. If you have no friends there are various websites you can join to meet new and exciting people who share the same interests as you. You have a week so plenty of time.


League table inc. £50 F/O 12/01/09

1/14/2009 05:56:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)

Games in January

1/07/2009 09:07:00 pm / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (1)

January 12th - £50 - 5,000 starting chips, 3x30 minute levels, then 20 minute clock for remainder of tournament.


January 19th - £20 re-buy - 2,000 starting chips. 2,000 per re-buy. Re-buy period will be 2x40 minute levels then 20 minute clock after.

January 26th - £25 freeze-out beginners night - 4,000 starting chips, 3x30 minute levels, then 20 minute clock for remainder of tournament.

All games will be Texas hold 'em and begin at 8.05pm

£40 freeze-out report January 5th

1/06/2009 03:02:00 am / Posted by Rich / comments (0)

The first tournament of the new year was a roaring success with unprecedented numbers having something better to do and not showing up, leaving just 13 runners to contest the £40 freeze-out.

It was standing room only unless you wanted to sit down

A car crash hand after only a few minutes reduced the field by a quarter. With blinds at 25/50 yours truly came in for a raise making it 175 to go with the Ace-10 of diamonds. Called by Paul of Peros, Twiz of Porter and someone else, I forget who...Joe of Azipuru I think.

We saw a flop of 3d-4s-5d. Checked to me and I therefore make it 350 and why not as I have the nut flush draw and gut-shot straight with two overs. But wait though, wait….Paul of Peros announces re-raise!!! Fuck my life I says. He makes it another 1,000 to go. Twiz of Porter calls the 1,350!! Gasp!

I decide cause I’m having problems with my patience just these last few decades of my life, that I’m shoving my remain stack in and it’s another 3,500-ish to go if they like it, I know Paul has a set, but I feel like I'm due an out-draw. Call that if you don't like money suckers!! Called in both spots.

D'oh!

Although there’s a wee bit of betting on the side between Paul and Twiz, it all goes in on the turn which was the 5 of cock-sucking diamonds. It completes my Ace-high flush, but it also fills Paul of Peros up as he’s holding pocket 4's. Twiz of Porter also had a flush draw (8-6 diamonds) and that was all she wrote for the two of us.



Paul of Peros then went on to manoeuvre his way through the rest of the field to take first prize in what was in his words, "the greatest moment of my life," which he insisted we capture on camera so he can show his mam.

Paul told us afterwards, “I’ve never felt so alive. I know it’s only the first week of January, but this has made my year. It’s always been a dream of mine to win a poker tournament so what a wonderful beginning to the year. I’m quite emotional really, sorry..I just can’t believe it..no but seriously, thanks to everyone at the Winrush Valley Card Club...yes..but no I mean…so yes, fucking brilliant.”

fucking brilliant

Next week’s game is a £50 freeze-out. It could happen to you too. Why not come along? Bring your friends, bring your Mam too if she’s free and you too could also feel like Paul, fucking brilliant.

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Money places

1. Paul Peros £250
2. Matthew Bowden £150
3. The Salmon £100

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League Table inc. January 5th £40 freeze-out

1/06/2009 12:32:00 am / Posted by Windrush Valley Card Club / comments (0)