Chipsoft 2012 Poker tournament

On the ferry in the morning.

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On the last (working) day of the year ChipSoft organises a Texas Hold'em poker tournament. Every year more people sign up. I started at table nr. 2 with Esther as dealer. Esther is one of 4 professional dealers dealing for us today. The dealers play big tournaments themselves as well and some have worked as croupiers in casinos.

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The whole room had 4 poker tables in it.

I brought a hat and my sunnies for a change. It didn't help. I got knocked out fairly early.

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Table nr. 1.

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Table nr. 3.

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Table nr. 4 with Rolf "Ace" Slotboom as dealer.

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The final table. 9 players left. 7 players will go home with cash. The nr. 1 player is taking 800 euros home tonight!

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Eelke on the left and Wander on the right playing against each other.

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Final shot. Wander became the best player of the day!

$$$

I finally got around (after 1.5 years) to filtering out my Dutch coins.

My collection of coins and notes in Guilders and my (finally!) complete Euro collection. Well, that is to say only for the original countries...

In the evening I met a girl at Leidseplein to give her back her camera that I found in the snow in December 2009. She never came forward to the police to report it missing but Marjolein found out who the camera belonged to by looking at the photos and searching the interwebs.

I made myself a nice meal. I have another portion ready for work :-)

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