Poker - night four: a new hope

on the back of my win at the first work texas holdem tourney i was a little more confident going into sunday's game. Even so, i still made a few very bad plays...
The raging swan wasn't able to come, but we had Vincent 'poker stud' bringing us back up to six punters. He was the first to leave coz it was getting late, and in a bid to absorb his winnings i met him at the flop and he went all in... and won with a flush, costing me three hundred.

Cant remember much more, except that Dan's erratic bid to see the flop (usually hundres at a time) caused many hands to fold and on one hand he sucked out alot from Joel and myself to see the flop, the turn and river only to show a hand full of crap. Joel won it quite happily. (grr must remember not to call dan to see the flop)
The other thing worth mentioning is the straight flush Joel revealed, the highest hand seen so far.

The final hand came down to joel and myself. (It had gone back and forth paying blinds for a few hands until one of us would call to see the flop... I should've waited until i had atleast a pair, or an ace with a face kicker.) I was dealt an ace and a low card, and payed through the nose to see the rest of the cards. Joel raised so i would have to go all in to see the river. He won it with a two pair... i on the other hand didn't have anything. My ace did squat.

So, the final rank was
1st Poker-in-the-rear (for the forth time)
2nd Mr.Pink (Yay)
3rd Dark
4th Dumbluck DJ
5th the Queen of tarts
6th poker stud

as for awards, its a toss up between dan and dark for the little pussycat 'hang in there' award. And dan also gets the 'help joel to win by bidding hundreds to see the flop' award'