A Sour Week That Gopher Rescued ;)

It’s that time again.. Time to sit here tap away some more stuff to fill up the big white space that is my blog page.

Poker stuff… Still pretty barren in this department. Played a couple of very early morning SNG’s nothing big just $10 tables. Took a couple of money spots and one win. Also played a 200 seater over at PKR one afternoon, whilst doing some work on a separate PC and took 7th. Played another MTT with Ash at PKR yesterday, again about 200 entries. We finished 11th and 12th and we were both totally sucked out with monkey calls. I can’t remember Ash’s hand but I know my pre flop raise was re-raised by a Q4 off and the idiot hit a straight. Man, 2 hours in to a game, last 12 players, yah expect a bit more than that eh..

We had one night during the week in Skype that was great fun. There were about 5 or 6 of us in Skype and four of us entered a 27 seat multi SNG. A couple of us were little bit ‘lit’ from beers etc.. But Gopher was on fire! I think over the evening, he had drunk his fridge dry of beer. He doubled up on the first hand and there was no stopping him after that. I will admit that for much of the game he played some very cute big stack poker. But…but…. Man did he get the beer overconfidence thing going! We were all screaming for him to reign it in.. and he was like “ Och, yeah I know..  am not calling with this 7-9 off”.. then when it came around to him.. “Och he hasn’t got anything” and in goes 2000 of gophers chips.. we were dying with laughter because he took down nearly every hand he played.. Then when it got down to the last 3-4 players, Gopher pipes up “ok I need coffee now brb”.. "good idea" we all chorus down our mics..then before he leaves he changes his mind and decides he is going to get a beer.. Giggling groans from us lot..then before his ass lifted off his chair.. “no I am gonna sit here and play instead..” Three minutes of mic silence, where we are all shouting.. “Goph?” ..”Goph you there?”.. "Maybe he passed out?".. Next thing we know he climbs back into his chair “I am making coffee”.. Then proceeds to cast his chips over the table with the gay abandonment of a farmer with an abundance of seed stock on sowing day.. Off he shoots to get his coffee.. “Good man I say, get the coffee down yah and try and get a level head again”.. “Yup, I intend too" comes the slurred reply as he settles back down again into his chair.. ”I decided on one more beer instead” he adds.. At this point we [the Skype crew] collectively fall out of our chairs laughing.. Anyhow, Gopher ends heads up and with a slurred “he aint got nothing” throws it all in and he turns over his cards, the guy has him beat and was probably pumping the air at that point.. Cept this guy didn’t know that our inebriated Scottish pal had been given Satan’s Table Skin that night and he had the portal open for a quite a while.. Gopher was repaid for his new allegiance with Beelzebub, by sucking the guy out on the river.. too much fun for one night. And that is about it for this blog entry.. good luck on the felt everyone, especially the Portal Posse!