So, after Updating non-stop for 4 days, and not so much touching a card, the Deauville Main Event ends, & we all rush off to get some SNG action. "Sorry, too late, you can't play". Damn.
So your intrepid Updaters - snoops, Ben, Alright Jack, Flushy, special part-time Updater Jen (...!!) , & me, all decide to go to snoops Hotel room to get some poker action.
"It's a 5 minute walk" says snoops. 4 miles then.
I've got a short sleeve shirt & no coat, it's -4c, & there is frost everywhere. 4 miles is more like 8 miles. Flushy has a blister, & can barely hobble, snails are overtaking us. 6 hours later - it seemed like 12 - we arrive at snoops hotel.
All squeeze into the world's smllest lift, and are soon in snoops room. Except it's beyond snoops ingenuity to turn on the lights in his room, so we all stand in the dark for 10 minutes, while he fiddles with the light switch. Complicated things - you know, "OFF", "ON", but it's too much for snoops, & he fails to manage it, so we all troop back down to the lounge, where it's lovely & warm, almost 0c.
Ben is dealing, & snoops is playing all lairy.
I'm on the Button, with K-T, snoops is in the Blinds with J-8, & we see this flop.
So, I've hit two pair, snoops has middle pair.
Snoops bets out, I move in.
snoops starts dwelling, I try a little trash talk, & decide to show him one card - my
.
Mistake! I assumed a reasonably intelligent being would realise that was my UNDERCARD, but snoops walks into it, "oh, it's the Ten, I've hit the J, I must be ahead, & he calls.
"Fish!" rings out round Deauville, & we all crack up as I reveal my two Pairs, Kings & Tens. snoops is devestated. "I thought I was winning as you showed the Ten".
Turn card -
My uppance was come.
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