Poker has arrived ! Ooooo, its here, Poker has come to Adelaide Casino ! In
the form of the "poker zone". Like we used to add the
suffix city, to everything, like wind city etc. , the
casion likes to add the word zone.

The poker zone is next to the grandstand bar, and it
comprises of 7 tables, surrounded by a bar / rail,
which allows spectators to view the action. Its pretty
crowded in there, but once your sitting down, your
fine. They kicked it off with a tourney, 60ppl , $50+$15,
which is a bit steep on the rake.

Went and put our names down on the omaha list, went to dinner
at rigonis, then came back. There was little chance of
them starting omaha, but they had lots of 4-8 holdem
going. So had to transfer our names on teh 4-8 list.
Took a while to get on, but as the tourney progressed and they
lost a table, they'd add a new 4-8 table.

Chad got dispatched by himself to some table, which had a couple
of matchroom guys. Barter and I got put on the new table,
which could prolly not have consisted with ppl who had less idea.

First hand small blind calls, big blind checks no one else
is in the hand. Flop comes A-J-8. Small blind bets, Big
blind calls. Turn comes a 5. SB checks, BB checks. River
comes a 4. Now the SB, says i check and turns over his cards.
But the BB hasnt checked yet. So he looks at the SB's cards
who has turned them over. Then the BB decides to make a bet.
The SB says i check. The BB looks at the cards again, takes
his bet back. The SB has turned over 2-3 for the nut straight,
the dealer asks him wheether he can beat the straight. He
says no. Dealer pushes chips to the SB, and he says oh i thouhgt
you had the straight. Barter and I are looking at each other
trying not to laugh out aloud.

Anyway it was amateur hour there, but you still need cards,
we didnt win or lose much, tho chad did ok. Anyway its
reasonably well organised, and should be interesting to see
the standard of play in future weeks. Perhaps u need to play 10-20 to
get anything resembling a game...  ¶ 6:16 PM