Through this game and weekly get-together lots of old-friendships have been rekindled and lots of new friendships formed.
As some of those new friendships had only met online, we also decided to arrange an in-person game.
We’ve now had a couple of these meetups and in-person games. Anyone is welcome whether you want to come along to play poker or not, you could also come along just for a drink or a bite to eat and to say hello. The meetups are organised with a ‘before’ bit just for socialising, in a venue that has space, food and drinks and a private function room for the game.
Our 1st In Person Game: 18th June 2022
The first meetup was a huge success, we had a good number of players (12) and a few guests too who came along to say hello and ended up staying and watching the game. We also had a rotating seat for one of the players who shared his game play with two friends who’d come to see what the craic was and ended up playing.
Nice one Gabriel – pretty much losing and then with your 2 ringers you ended up coming 3rd!!
The winner on the night was the amazing Paul Kaleta, raking in a huge horde of chips and making a whopping sum of literally tens of pounds.
Our 2nd In Person Game: 10th September 2022
Our 2nd in person game was really put together to accommodate the players who didn’t make the first, Mita, Cameron and Claudia. In the end (best laid plans…) despite best efforts, only one of these 3 players, Claudia, could make it but it was worth it because Claudia ended up winning! Congrats Claudi.
Our winner:
13th July 2024
Another in-person game and another great evening. A little different to the first two in a few ways, some traffic problems and late arrivals making the start a little manic and we switched from one table to two as we realised that after all, with Gabriel and Aboy joining we were stretching it to play with just one table (we had 12 players in total). So we switched to two tables of 6 but rotated players doing a 1 seat exchange every 40 mins. It worked really well. Another very nice evening with some really great moments b ut more importantly than all, as is always the case, a really good showing and mix of awesome people.
The top 2 hustlers at the end of the night were Laimo & Aboy. Not much to choose between them in the end, though Aboy did rebuy a little more then Laimo (who I don’t think had any rebuys this time).
Future Meet-ups
We’ll definitely have some more of these. Watch this space. The date of the next one will be posted right here.