[Grisgra]

Some notes:

1) I took the tube there and while I somehow failed to manage to buy a ticket by credit card, feeling like a moron the whole time (after I inserted the card the only option it gave me was 'multiple tickets' . . . what's up with that?", I did successfully manage the rest of the way.

2) I confess I grew to appreciate the general jihad in the States against smoking indoors -- no smoking at the table, but enough floating through the club to stink up my clothes. Ah, well.

3) Pedro--who I take to be a regular there--is quite a character. He must be the unluckiest player in the history of the world. He never wins with aces, always gets outdrawn, and in general gets constantly beat by worse players. At least, that's what he told me over the course of the ~6 hours he and I were at the same table. The poor guy, I would have felt sorry for him if he would have ever shut up for more than 10 seconds [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img].

Oh: online poker is fixed, and he played up to 500/1000 six years ago. Online.

4) What's with the player-dealer stuff? Didn't expect it! I felt like an idiot not knowing the correct shuffling/dealing procedure, but to their credit everyone at the table was exceedingly tolerant and helpful, and I was very appreciative.

5) On that note, in general everyone was fun to game with.

6) Finally, I must note that as a limit player, the only thing I know about winning in NL is to limp with pockets and flop sets. I did, 4 times, and by the end of the night more than tripled up off of my 100-pound buy-in. Woohoo!

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