This week’s action…..

Deadly and Hammerheed are giving it the red face, puffing and panting, after a kick around at their local football CLUB…..

That leaves 5 card CLUB members, seated at the workbench of the Professors lab, eager to collect some points in the penultimate game of the 2008 – 2009 season. What do points make…….prizes!

With talk of patterns emerging where hosts pick up spoons, the superstition holds true, and none other than the Proffessor of Negative Equity claims the accolade. This secures the CLUB booby prize for the season with an unreachable tally of 8 wooden ornaments with 1 game to play – Congratulations Spooney! (Is that 2 in a row?)........

League leader Irwinator was making waves, splashing the pot at every opportunity with the river as his medium. On more than one occasion, our top spot holder prevailed at the hands of the poker gods on this waterway. But this luck was short lived and the streams ebbed ever close to the ocean, and the estuary was at dwindleville……

Swiller was in contention for a top spot, and points tonight could secure better prizes in the run down for the loot. This was most likely on his mind when he flopped a set and opted to slow play it to maximise his rewards. But rewards come with risks, and even though he filled his boat, he inadvertently opened the flood gates as I filled mine. This was the beginning of Swillers demise, and this time when the chips were in he had me wired up. Two CLUBS on the flop gives me an outside chance, runner runner – CLUBS, there was to be no return from this mental blow…….CLUBBLE boy…..

Cally’s game has been a bit more conservative towards the end of the season, and as the only challenger to the gold medal, he was certainly siding on caution. But caution was thrown to the wind and on many occasions he should have been putting on his jacket, and making the trip back to Lisburn – Did you know that Lisburn was originally known as ‘Lisnagarvey’ derived from the Irish term meaning ‘Fort of the Gamblers’? Fact, and gamble he did, in a heads up battle against myself to defend his fort, claim his spoils and line up a nail biting finally next week…….

I’m Rob D………What is the Matrix?