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Message: [QUOTE="jacksprat, post: 1311617, member: 58148"] [SIZE=3]Game - 5 card stud PL – short deck (all cards 2 through 6 removed). .. 8 handed, if more players left on final card then one tunover card counts for all (rarely happened).[/SIZE] [SIZE=3][/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Setting - Pokey, smelly, fly filled room, dominated by large pro looking poker table.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3][/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Outside – No street lighting, several dark alleys[/SIZE] [SIZE=3][/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Players originally – We were all snooker players, the snooker hall closed at 11PM Friday, stud time.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]We had been playing for several months, and as the weeks went by, more and more players would turn up and Queue for a game. The guy who ran the game, also the dealer (5% rake) got greedy and put the buy in up to £50 from the original £20. As a consequence four of the snooker players quit the game, and we had to put up with all sorts of drunken reprobates coming in off the streets when the pubs chucked them out.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]3 AM satuday August 1980[/SIZE] [SIZE=3][/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Players – guy, first day out of prison - 4 snooker players - 2 drunks – vicious hard nut. Other drunks queueing in spare room.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3][/SIZE] [SIZE=3]No phone in the house and pre mobile phone days.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3][/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Playing chips – none – cash on the table.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3][/SIZE] [SIZE=3]The guy from prison 3 £100buy ins, vicious hard nut 2 £100 buy ins, other drunks come and gone - eight, which included 3 £50 buyins. There is £1,200 cash at the table of which rake roughly £100.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Big hand with one round of betting to come – [/SIZE] [SIZE=3][/SIZE] [SIZE=3]vicious guy *AA8 – [/SIZE] [SIZE=3]snooker player(1) *KKQ[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]– drunk *T8A. [/SIZE] [SIZE=3]I had folded -*A- first round of betting.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Snooker (2)player folded - *8 – first round of betting[/SIZE] [SIZE=3][/SIZE] [SIZE=3]My pal the snooker player was well aware, he is not up against a FH because he had been counting the cards. He also figured that the remaining 7 hole cards are quite likely to be favourable incase he is up against 2 pairs, judging by the betting patterns of the other 3 unmentioned players - who all folded betting round 2 after hitting non improvement low cards.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]The vicious guy goes allin for his remaining £40.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3][/SIZE] [SIZE=3]The pot is now around the £250 mark. Before calling my pal explains, I think you have an 8 in the hole, but I have to call because there could be several kings and Queens amongst the hole cards, basically I have value to call.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Vicious guy has - AA88[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Snooker player – KKQQ[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Last card – K[/SIZE] [SIZE=3][/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Vicious guy goes nuts and turns the table over on me (luckily, my cash, the pot and most everybodys money fell around me). Prison guy grabs a handful of money (probably his), and sides with the nutter. A few players and the dealer got a slap or two (I was still under the table!). They then threatened, (we all believed them) to rob and beat us up as and when we leave.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3][/SIZE] [SIZE=3]The two drunks then argued about their stack sizes with the broken nosed dealer. We settled on giving them £60 each, definately an overpayment. At least they could leave safely, there were five more drunks waiting. We knew there could be a problem, so we gave them £20 each, and they left quite happily. [/SIZE] [SIZE=3][/SIZE] [SIZE=3]It took us a good hour to sort out the remaing cash, but atleast four of us were good friends. Our main arguement was with the dealer(now black eyed and broken nosed). Eventually he settled on £100. He locked the door and played with us, by 6AM we had relieved him of his £100.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3][/SIZE] [SIZE=3]6.30 AM, one of the wives turned up to collect her husband(normally we are pissed off to see her). Upon entering the house she tells us about these two dubious looking guys waiting in an Alley round the corner. Thankyou very much we all said, gathered up our cash and took the opposite way out( long way to her car)[/SIZE] [SIZE=3][/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Although it was a nice little earner, none of us ever played there again. I heard a month or two later it was raided by police and closed for good. Serves the owner/dealer right! [/SIZE] [SIZE=3]I say - DO NOT PLAY POKER IN SHADY PLACES [/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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