Friday, September 18, 2009

Street Fights and Poker

Ok, I'm going to tell you about my trip to the doctors the other day, nothing to do with poker, so just read the next paragraph if you're not interested.

I was sitting outside the Doctors Surgery with a coffee, just waiting to go and see him for my Flu I can't seem to shake, anyway, 2 cars pull up on the road at the traffic lights and all of a sudden, 2 meatheads jump out and start fighting. They were fairly swinging them that's for sure, these poor older ladies at the coffee shop next door starting screaming as they both spilled onto the sidewalk trying to smash each other into oblivion, at first, I thought it was quite amusing, but it looked like it was going to get pretty serious and these people sitting at the coffee shop were looking at me in a way to say, "aren’t you going to do anything?"

Anyway, without thinking I jumped up and stood in the middle of these guys yelling at them both to cut it out and stop being idiots (I'm actually a big guy myself and played rugby league for about 20 or so years, so have no dramas about being able to hold my own in a confrontation - saying that, I've been belted a couple of times), anyway, as I was yelling one guy swung a punch and just missed me and the guy he was after, I grabbed the fella and yelled again in his face. He didn’t even give me the time of day, he had the RAGE in his eyes and was only after the guy that he started the altercation with.....so after me yelling a little more (basically just pointing out the police station was 100m around the corner), I finally got through to them. So the crazier guy as he was retreating was saying to the other "I'm going to smash your windscreen ", again, I just said to him, "Dude, that's a Bentley, you'll be up for about 5 grand if you smash that", anyway, he must have heard something I said as he looked at me and jumped back in the car. They both drove off and the police showed up about 30 seconds after that. So there ya have it, that was my trip to the doctors.....an interesting one hey. I sort of think, maybe I shouldn’t have stepped in, all the "what ifs" starting floating through my head. But, then I think, well at the end of the day I probably saved them both a lot of law fee's and possibly a trip to the hospital.

Ok, let's move onto POKER shall we......

Friday 18th Sept @ 4.00pm EST: Poker Rewards Survivor Tournament. This is a $200 freeroll and has no entry requirements. Basically, you're playing poker to survive, all you want to do is try and keep enough chips not to be booted out. For more details, check out: MGS Survivor Tournament

Saturday 19th Sept @ 2.00pm EST: Saturday Bounty Buy-In. $3 + 30c will buy you into this Bounty Tournament. $3 for every player you knock out and $150 added to the kitty. Your mates aren't your mates in these games. Every man and women for themselves.
Saturday 19th Sept @ 6.00pm EST: Poker Rewards Survivor Tournament. Those that miss out on the Bounty Game, this is a $200 freeroll and has a 10 raked hand entry requirement. Basically, you're playing poker to survive, all you want to do is try and keep enough chips not to be booted out. For more details, check out: MGS Survivor Tournament
Sunday 20th September @ 1.00pm EST. Sunday Freeroll. 25 Raked Hands to Enter. Limited seats and registration is open. Don't leave it too late to get involved. $200 in the Prize Pool.

That about wraps things up for this weekend, have a good, enjoy your Poker and behave. Don't forget to water the plants!!

All the best