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Wednesday was Jonny Stewart’s Birthday, so in the evening, rather than spend a fortune getting drunk in a pub, we spent a fortune getting drunk and gambling!

We bought loads of Pizza, Beer, Wine, Nuts and Pringles and headed back to Jonny’s for a proper lads night. Jon had already sourced a proper Texas Hold’em Poker set, so after food, we set up the table and got down to business. We played for about an hour as a practice run with no money until everyone arrived. £5 went into the kitty and we each received 20 chips. The rounds started off relatively quickly with Alex going bust on about the 3rd round. Slowly however, everyone got a little scared to bet and each round just got checked until the river card when almost everyone would fold leaving two or three of us to battle it out.

We did surprisingly well - with a few full houses, straights and flushes - although the majority of rounds were won with one pair - Jonny even managed to win with a 9 as high card!! The only contentious issue was between Jon and I over an identical straight. The 5 cards on the table were 3, 8, 9, J, Q. I had 10 and a Jack, Jonny had 10 and an Ace! We couldn’t decide who had won - considering its the best 5 cards from the 7 - with both of us having the same straight 8,9,10,J,Q. If we took best 6 - Jonny won with Ace High. If we took best to include both cards from each hand - I won with Jonny simply on Ace high and me with two Jacks. We couldn’t find the rules so we simply split the pot. It turns out that splitting the pot was the correct thing to do - so that resolves that!

The night ended on a frantic note when I won two rounds in a row! I had what looked like the majority of the chips just as the alarm went off for the last round. Everyone went all in - making the pot in the centre and my hand look just about even. Rather than just cave in and go all in too, I flipped a coin to decide if i should try doubling my money or risk losing it all. Of course - the player with the most chips at the end wins the pot so I was lucky that the coin came out in the negative. I folded and hung on to my stack. We flipped the cards and Addam won the pot with an 8 - making a straight. We stacked up the chips and addam won by about 5 chips. Thats gambling for ya!

Addam and I had an agreement to split the winnings if one of us won - so yesterday morning, upon realising we didn’t have to go to work as there was no power, we went for a celebratory fry-up at Harrys - which was lovely (lovely waitress too ;-)) Cheers Adz!

I genuinely had the most fun i’ve had in ages! It was great 8 lads just chilling out and having a laugh instead of getting mullered in a smokey bar and spending shit loads of money. Must do it again!

Anyway - I’m off to Bath tonight for the weekend. I don’t really know why - i’ll be back for Christmas in two weeks! I forgot Ben’s birthday though (sorry skippy) - so lets just say its a belated birthday piss up. Any excuse ey!

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