Tuesday night at the pub as usual

Yesterday, I went to the pub to play poker. With a friend, we used to play poker once a week and we found a nice place in Tooting Bec where we can play poker with nice people. Most of the players are from England, most of them but some of them like me are from different countries such as France, South Africa, and Germany.
The poker tournament starts at 8 pm and if you want to play at the tournament, you have to pay a fee of £5. You start the tournament with 1500 chips, but in this pub, you can get more chips by buying a shooter at the bar. It cost £2.50 and you get 500 chips more. It’s just one per person and the barman knows everyone.
It is already the beginning and, as usual, it is quite difficult to have everyone around the table. You have 4 table of 8 players, sometimes 9 players (too many registration but it means also more money for the winners). To know on which table you are playing, you have to pick up a card and, after that, it depends on the suit you have picked up to determinate your table. The person you picked up the ace is the dealer, this is the rule.
Around my table: I’m the only lady around the table, actually on 40 players, yesterday, it was 5 women not more. The organizer was sitting down just beside me and he is quite good, he used to play online and told us some good and bad hands that he played today.
Three young guys are there and you can quickly guess that most of them are beginner and sometimes is quite easy to get their money. A young guy, a ginger guy raised 400 chips when the big blind was 100 but his friend went all in. He folds so the table just make a noise like “booooooo” for fun. But he was so pissed off that he told us that it was forbidden in poker to do that. Just after that, we told him that it is forbidden too to leave his chips in the felt, he didn’t appreciate at all. These kinds of players are quite funny actually.
After that, you have the expert, he knows exactly how to play but yesterday night, he couldn’t play properly. He told me that it was unlucky. And actually, he lost against me. But the good thing is (or not).
You have also the great guy, he knows the rules and know how to raise but he is also very friendly and don’t care about the tournament, he wants to win but if he doesn’t, it is not so important.
The atmosphere of the tournament was great and I think it is a great way to meet so good poker players and have fun. I finished 11th but the big blind of 1200 killed me and I made some mistake that didn’t help me.




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