what a laugh

[Newmanseye]

I had a real stinker of an evening yesterday, I was to run a poker tourney that no one turned up to, I got a parking ticket at 8pm at night, and there is no cash game on the go, so i'm stuck for the night.

So I head in to Cincins and we had a bit of a mess about for £2 a pop, then a few people come in and want to play a cash game but some are in for a higher stakes game others are in for holdem only and some are low limit players, so as you can tell we have 8 guys wanting to play but no game on offer. we all decided to go for a £5 rebuy dealers choice ( excluding silly games like pineapple and the like).

Well we decide to start with 10K in chips with blinds at 50 / 100 and there is no sign of the blinds increasing  I thought it may turn in to a chip chucking fest but it did not, there were only200k in chips on the table by the close of play but my point was this, what a great tourney, its similar to Horse but all games except holdem are pot limit where holdem is no limit, games played included 6 card Omaha, 6 card Omaha hi lo, 4 card Omaha, and 4 card Omaha Hi Lo, 7 card stud, 5 card stud, 6 irish, 4 Irish, no limit holdem and 3 card Irish.

To say it was mental would be an understatement, we had guys trying to claim high pots with bottom 2 pair when the quads are out and stuff, just non stop laughathon,

so who else has tried this sort of thing to apease the masses? 

Anyone?

[Rookie (Rodney)]

We do this pretty much every week at the Inthebelly game. Always after the normal freezeout there will be a Dealers Choice/HORSE event going on. In fact, some of the players look more forward to the silly £5ers in afterwards than the actual tournament!!

Oh, and also, a new game has been made up, and is very successful within the Inthebelly crew, its called - "rookie"

[bolt pp]

When i was 18 on the dot i got a switch card from my bank.

I was living with a girl that lived on a very small estate in Charlton.

Anyway i went up town to buy a pair of sunglasses and this was the first bit of credit Ive ever had.

there was a check book with card and i tried to pay with a check and the woman said i didn't need to, all i had to do was give her the card and away we go.

This was unfortunately to easy and me and my mate and our girlfriends went to the cinema that night up town, all in all it cost about £100.

the next day i was buying all sorts of rubbish with no idea how i was going to pay back the bank(very silly i know but as the 18 year old i was i didn't think so and dont think i couldve been convinced otherwise)

After about 5 days of spending i went into the bank to enquire about a certain part of my account, the woman was astonished that I'd run up such a big bill and stopped the card.

but much to my amazement i could still issue the checks and just kept on spending....................

We got back from shopping one night me, my pal and our girlfriends and there was an unfamiliar car parked outside her flat.

We went inside and ordered a pizza.

I was registered with the bank at this address.

30 mins later the intercom went and i answered it thinkin it was the pizza.

The guy on the other end said"i work for hsbc and i'm instructed to "........i dont even think he asked my name but i interupted him saying:"what, he's not here, he's gone out, you've got the wrong number"!!!!

I can hear the other intercoms in the block going and decide to go down the two flights of stairs to see if i can see how many of them there are.

the bill was £3000 and ALL the gear i bought was in the flat and i was gutted.

so i went out the door and closed it quietly

As i got down the first flight of stairs someone else buzzed him in!!!

It was too late to gat back in the flat so i ran up to the third floor and crouched down hiding!!!!

He starts banging on the door relentlessly and i'm directly above him with no shoes or socks on freezing and i doesn't look like he's going anyware!!!

It looks like it cant get worse.....until the pizza turns up.

Someone else buzzes him in and now he's standing at the front door as well taliking to this debt collector.

there is a big window adjacent to me and the debt collector has clocked me in it crouching down on the balcony above him.

The walls were paper thin in this little block of flats and I'm sure everyone else was listening to what was going on.

So then this debt collector comes out with it, the sentence that people will go on to ruin me for years about:" Mark i can see you, come down mate, your pizzas getting cold"!

I'm not joking you could here the laughter from my mate and girlfriend from inside the flat, everyone.

I bowled down the stairs and said i wasn't hiding just knocking for my mate that live upstairs the look on he's face said he didn't believe me.

As it turned out this guy was a diamond and said that he didn't want any stuff and that he was instructed to take the card only, he came in the flat and after i had a little chat with him he even let me pay for the pizza with the check(the pizza guy took it)

After the most ridicule you could imagine that night i was getting phone calls for a week after that began with "mark come down, your pizzas getting cold" and i still get stick to this day.

the moral of the story, pay your bills!!!!!

[Newmanseye]

 
 
 

[Graham C]

LOL great post bolt