Gentlemens' Cards Night I

Texas Hold 'em for Orf's Orphans!

 I figure the only way to feel okay about taking dough from your mates is to give them some bang for their buck, so, eight of us got together last night for a 'Texas Hold 'em Tussle'.

The concept was simple....everybody in for a RM50 donation to the orphans. For that we each got $5,000 in chips and then it was on.....for pride and bragging rights!

Wilko got off to a blistering start, winning the first few hands and raking in thousands! He was to go on and be one of the late survivors.....The big early loser was Marvellous Ben Mather. Marvellous threw caution to the wind splashing purple chips all over the place! Probably not the smartest move to be betting thousands before the flop - but "Hell it's all for the orphans!" he cried.....
 

Mr Nokia, Ant Wilson joined the table a little late after Angry Bird-ing all day so he was ordered to pay a $400 fine to each of the early losers.......perfect timing for Marvellous but not quite enough to prevent his early demise.... "Hell, it's all for the orphans!" he cried as he reached into his wallet and pulled out another RM50 to buy back in

As Mr Nokia settled back after giving away a substantial proportion of his stash he immediately looked resolutely around the table from one bloke to the next and said...."So, this game is called Texas what??" Ahhhhh, Mr Nokia out lasted a few of the boys but in the end, he mis-read the sophistication of the market and went quietly the way of the analogue phone....

Dave 'The Boss' Kilpatrick looked shaky right from the start when he tried a $3000 bluff with a pair of threes.....it almost worked too but in the end I SMASHED him with my pair of sevens! The Boss's pile never really recovered from that early hit and at 10.30 he was gone......He'll tell you he had to pick up Callum but we all know the truth....The Boss got burned!

Filthy Firthy and Bartman Bartley quietly amassed their fortunes all night.....calculated, cunning they won one stack of $5 chips after the other. And then....Marvellous went out again! "Hell, it's all for the orphans.....I've got another RM50....I'm back in!"

Cool Hand Colbes played solidly but without luck all night....never collecting or losing big and managed to limp through to the final rounds with a few shekels left in his pile.

Around midnight we got to the business end. Marvellous ver3.0 was still in, along with Filthy, Bartman and myself. Wilko had just gone hard 'all-in' and appropriately went 'all-out' but he stayed around to see the final battle.....

In the end, Bartman Bartley took the honours as he managed to muscle the smaller pile holders out of the game.......I followed Wilko going 'all out', Filthy took second place and Marvellous limped into third place.

1. Bartman Bartley - First Place with $27,650

2. Filthy Firthy - Second Place with $12,350

3. Marvellous Ben Mather - Third Place with $1,200

Well done boys and thank you. It was a great night of cards, beers and laughs.

AND we raised RM550 for the Linda Community Orphans

I'm declaring this fundraiser a huge success and recording the stashes for the 'End of Season Trophy'. I will be hosting many more of these nights.....same blokes, different blokes...

"Hell, it's all for the orphans!"

Kilimajaro - ni tu ya kilma

Orf