Poker at Gary's

On Monday evening we all played poker at Gary's. Two different meals were on offer: a meaty option, and a veggie option, which was eaten by no small number of Poker Kings. You might think this was because certain Kings have seen the light and joined Nik in his ideological vegetarianism. But no, it was actually because it's nearly 9th Av. Oh well.
The most amusing events of the evening took place in the very first hand. Adrian and Gary bet each other loads of money. Gary proudly displayed what he thought was a full house. It took Nik (of all people) to point out to him that he is only allowed to use two cards from his hand. Gary had done the full house f*ck up. Meanwhile, Adrian thought he had a low (or something) but he didn't. So Gary took all the money (for having a pair or three of a kind). Once the cards had been cleared and the chips gathered up by Gary, Adrian realised that he had had a club flush. Meaning he would have taken the money after all. How we laughed.
At first, it was quite hard to pick the cards up off the table, so we took the unconventional, but quite necessary step of replacing one of the packs of cards with another.
Other notable occurrences were Eric not losing money and Adrian finishing the evening extremely down, and actually in 3rd place overall. Maybe we can now put this Gary/Adrian nonsense to bed. The real competition is between Gary and Yossi... Gary was the big winner.
Rafi left half way through the game.
We're not playing next week because of aforementioned 9th Av.