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Texas Hold 'em Tournament

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Distribution Source : ArriveNet
Date : Monday, January 09, 2006
Author: Dean Beedell

Sunday 30th April - The Bear at Home's first Texas tournament was an outrageous sucess; great atmosphere and cameraderie was generated from the start, and Alison's curry kept the losers happy. The early exchanges were notable for the "heavyweight" departures of  The Landlord, Simon Claridge & Big Mac, leaving the smug semi professionals in charge of the chips at the tables. However they did not reckon on  the women gate-crashing the poker party, and both Heather & Jubs made it to the final on merit. The final two places were drawn as "lucky losers" and Stuart "chavster" Montgomery and Riccardo Nicholas were the lucky dudes. The "know all" players were seen off early, clearly unable to read either of the girls who did a great job of pretending they didn't know the rules. Down to the last three and only Stuart could stop Hev & Jubs wiping the floor with the blokes. He adopted the "I'll go blind" strategy, which was marginally more daft than their own cunning plan, so jubs was knocked out to leave the last two to slug it out. By the time Heather went "all in" on a 7-high, nobody cared except Stuart, who won by default. Thankfully he bought everyone in the pub a drink, so we forgave him. When asked what his tactics would be when defending his title, he said "go ****** all in blind" of course; not surprisingly the queue has already started to take him on !!