The Circus casino on a Friday night is poker's answer to the soup kitchen. The buy-in is free (okay, there is a £1 registration fee), there's a guaranteed prize pool of £1500, and everyone gets free chips (the edible kind), sandwiches and soft drinks. Can't be bad. Last time I went I was 13th, tonight I was 20th. I should go more often: I might win something!
Best hand tonight: I had 44 and the flop was A23. When one guy went all-in for 700 chips I "dwelled up" as they say, and called. A guy with AQ folded (!) and another guy called. Turn 3, river 5. Nice pot, and special prize for the guy who folded AQ for having some kind of poker sixth sense.
