Well I hosted the poker night and a good time was had by all. Beers were drunk, pizzas worked through with commendable (if gluttonous) industry, chips thrown in and bluffing skills tested. It was a fun game, and one of the big surprises of the night for me was the fact that four hours could go by so quickly. That was not my biggest surprise, however.
I won.
Yes, I won.
Not to sound too “Denny Crane” about it, I WON.
We all started off with 180 in chips, a simple enough number: 10 chips valued at 10, 10 valued at 5, 10 at 2 and 10 at 1 gave us all 180. Then we started playing. My friend Ian was first to go all in and drop out about 2 hours in. About an hour later my friend Donny went that way too. About half an hour after that my friend Craig dropped out, and when the game ended I had more chips than my friend Paul. Admittedly he won a sudden death hand for a small cash prize we all put into, but I walked away with the biggest pile of chips!
My only outright disaster was folding once and then finding out I would have had two pair if I had just stayed in to see the five community cards dealt out, but these are early days for me so I hope I can gloss over any silly mistakes. By the end of the night I think I was starting to find my feet: playing conservatively on the whole, edging up the betting when I had a strong hand, but occasionally doing so with a weak hand when I could afford it (so the others round the table couldn’t pin down the sort of hand I had from my betting). I also discovered the benefits of position in relation to the dealer – you get a lot more advantage out of seeing how everyone else bets. When you’re first in line, you’re really going in kinda blind.
So I end my first ever poker night with a win. I have no doubt this was some sort of weird beginners luck, but that said I’m not that proud to refuse it. Alas no photos of me wearing a little green dealers hat but keep looking, there are always more games to be played. All we have to do is work out a way to play blog poker and I think we have the next generation of blog parties right there people.
Can you see the vision?