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| Bawbag at the Town Hall on Friday |
1. Bottleneck
2. GingaStinga
3. Petawatt
4. Aces Picasso
5. Killawatt
6. Wee Rambo
7. The Raiser
Apologies: DaBlouse (painting), The Doctor (attending to Dutch royalty), The Professor (in a huff after suggestion of up front payments was made to ensure better attendance), Sea Cock (pedicure), Ricketts (rickets).
First to exit within an hour was your grumpy scribe. Somehow, most probably due to abused substances, I didn't spot the second of the two nuances to GingaStinga's game. Move 1: no nuts, pot raise. Move 2: got nuts, slow play then pot re-raise. My J-10 flush on the flop including the A on the board looked better in the hand than it was in reality. It was being slow-played to the max, little did I know there was an even dirtier slow player in our midst. Calls from the floor relating to felines about the mass of check-check-checking may have compounded matters. Still, against a K or Q + a lower club would have been perfectly acceptable. GingaStinga having both K&Q was very bad manners. I duly flounced off into the corner to queue stuff on Spadify.
This allowed Wee Rambo to move up into 2nd last place. The puir wee scone thought he'd made it to the Munchy Break by going out the hand before the Munchy Break. By this logic, I made the Munchy Break too by going out 25 hands before the Munchy Break. Still, he's relatively new to the ways of the PP$ force. The Doctor still doesn't have a clue what's going on after about 15 years of playing and Petawatt is still unsure how to raise properly so there's still plenty time to pick up the finer nuances.
After initial signs that his boringly effective form was returning, Killawatt began to lose some chippage, with one biggie going Bottleneck's way, ultimately leaving Killa hovering around a grand and at his all-in/double-up stage. Using his ethereal skills he managed to get all in with 5-5 v GingaStinga's 4-4. Heads in hands for everyone except the Auburn-tinged one when a 4 arrived and Poker Behemoth was oot.
Leonardo Dunderfunk who wasn't in attendance was next to perish at the hands of GingaPotRaisa. With about three seasons of bad luck still due after his many years of being a lucky bar steward, Constable Andrews managed to get into a double up situ ahead, but GingaStinga hit an A on the river to shoot the non-present Aces Duncbucket out of the game.
Then there were three. PP$'s very own Pistorius, Mr Petawatt, sporting yet another new arm since he realised it gets you out of shuffling, dealing and construction duties stuck to his patented online tournament gameplan by hanging around until an all-in was forced upon him, doubling up on that all-in, then bleeding out soon after (see last game report and probably next game report too). But that's what will happen if you slowplay AA in a 3-way situation as he dangerously and disastrously did. The golden PP$ rule - Winner Takes All - is supposed to deter people from this sort of hypnagogic play, but Petawatt, just like Cameron & Lansley, shall not waver from pursuing a defunct policy despite every man and their dog telling them otherwise. This allowed GingaAllInna to add a K8 to his hole K8 and suddenly Bottleneck was in a heads up scenario against a GingaAllInna who just could not stop putting folk out.
First hand of heads-up followed the Gings Plan A, going pot raise/all-in etc but he took a right chipsmashing as Bottleneck's pair held up against AK. Undeterred, GingaAllInna piled what he had left in again on the next hand. Bottleneck called and this time came from behind with a QJ against A-10 to truly StingaGinga and walk off with 35 of the queens spondoolicks. In reality, these last hands played themselves but Rob had to be quick as his lift had started the engine before he could pocket the pennies.
Later in the week I'll update the Championship Table. In other news, it looks like there is a decent chance of a City Game at The Doctors Surgery next Saturday. Keep an eye on your email for details. Respeck!!!
