One for the ladies!

And I'm not talking about pocket Queens for once.

At last night's homegame, Leonie cleaned-up, bluffing a few of us into monster hands. In the end she split the pot £50-£40 with Chris the Fish, who was nearly out-fished for once!

There was some good poker last night although not from me in the first game.

Kermit took a chunk of my chips with a straight and then Leonie wiped me out completely.

I'm dealt pocket Kings and raise it up pre-flop. Barry 'Scrooge McDuck' and Leonie call and I'm loving the flop of 8, 4, 2. I move all-in and McDuck folds pocket 9s, a great laydown but Leonie calls me and turns over pocket Aces! Gutted, I put the kettle on and take the expected piss-taking on the chin.

Leonie was on fire and shortly after pumping me, she outplayed Paul the 'Pokerbrat'. Paul leads out the whole way, making medium to large bets but never enough to shake Leonie off. The flop brings 9, Ace, rag and Paul bets the flop and the turn. I think a Jack hit the turn and another 9 rivers.

Leonie must have made a face on the river, as both Pokerbrat and Kermit laugh at her reaction and confident she missed her hand, Pokerbrat moves all-in for close to 50,000 chips. At this stage Leonie is the chip leader anyway and we're all floored when Leonie calls and turns over a 9!

Pokerbrat was relying on his Ace to take down the whole pot and he got pumped on the river. He didn't take it too well, in fact he kicked himself over his bet on the turn being too small but personally, for me, it was the all-in move that was his mistake. If you thought someone had missed, why move all your chips in? A bet of 10-20K would have shaken her off if she'd missed and if she did turn out to have the nuts (as she did!) she would have got value, but not all your chips!

Pokerbrat went home in a huff and Leonie was now dominant.

Kermit and McDuck lasted a little longer but by heads-up, Chris the fish and Leonie were sitting with about 150,000 each in chips, so they split the pot and played high card for the remaining £10!

WELL DONE LEONIE!!! Her third game with the crew and her first win.

The second game was pretty quick, Chris managed to fish (there's a surprise!) Kermit out of the game when Kermit's two pair was voided when Chris rivered a King, giving him a better two pair!

Chris then made a questionable call when I flopped a 3! The flop was pretty bad, 3,8,9 pairing my 3 and I also had a Jack so I moved all-in hoping to take the pot down with a 'move with outs' (the blinds were 1000/2000 at this stage). Chris called with King, 6! My 3s held and he doubled me up giving me the chip lead.

I took him out with Jack, Queen in the next hand (he had Jack, 2)

I'll be playing at the Pomme on Sunday night at the cash game from 8:30pm and next week's home game is at mine from 7:30pm.

jT