RagingAZN
Two Pair
KP'S HORSESHOE (Auckland, New Zealand)
Every poker room deserves a thread and I think ours is no exception. Join us on a wonderful journey from 2007 'til now where I hope you will enjoy the pictures and stories that have made "KP's Horseshoe" what it is today. I am KP and this is the story of my poker room...
CHAPTER 1
"Why did you call with 9-high?"
"I was bluffing."
RT (From one of our first home games)
I was introduced to poker by my best friend in '05-'06 when we were still in high school. We would dabble in a few games over the holidays but it really took hold during a youth camp trip where we played for hours into the night with plastic chips and paper cards. We were hooked so I set out to set up a regular game in my parents garage. Being from New Zealand, even now its hard to get decent gear but in 2007, it was very hard to find much poker gear at all! I managed to find a folding poker table (which was damn heavy!) from an emporium type place and a set of beautiful dice chips from the games store. They even had an automatic card shuffler which I thought was a steal at $20. I had some plastic coated playing cards and we were ready to play!"Why did you call with 9-high?"
"I was bluffing."
RT (From one of our first home games)
Friday 10th of August, 2007. None of the first 9 of us had any idea about how the blinds worked so we all played ante only NL Texas Hold 'em for the first few games. Everybody would ante and action moved as normal. We started with 10c antes with a $10 buy-in. To be fair it was actually quite a good format, it ensured a lot of action, although that was probably because we were donkeys (we still are!) At the time we were 17-18 so that was a lot of money for some of us then. I remember winning a few bucks at the first game and thought I was on my way to being a poker superstar!
At our very first game, we had the now infamous "call bluff" pulled out by RT. At showdown, the hands were turned over and we couldn't believe it when he had called and showed 9-high. I guess everybody has to start from somewhere...
We started at 7:30pm and played until about 3-4am. At this time, I was playing first team football (soccer) on Saturday afternoons so suffice to say, I didn't play very well that day as I was suffering from a poker hangover. Everybody was super impressed with the setup and we all thought it was very professional but little did we know how things were about to change...
Keep tuned for chapter 2!