A bunch of Steemians - and many bystanders...
...gathered yesterday night at the Qubus restaurant to play the second Poker at Steem Fest tournament. Thank you 
Hive account@roelandp for putting together the Steem Fest! None of this little activities like a bunch of Steemians playing poker would be possible without you.
Players started to arrive at 19:30 and by 20:00 we were already 14 people (by the way, thanks 
Hive account@llfarms and 
Hive account@guyfawkes4-20 for arranging the place for the tourney). We were ready to play but, we didn't expect so many people wanting in... We only brought one deck but we needed to play in two tables - the ideal number of players per table is 9. Thankfully, 
Hive account@timsaid came to the rescue and he had one deck of cards that he let us use. Thanks 
Hive account@rivalzzz for the other deck!
We started to play around 20:30 and since we didn't want the tourney to finish too late, we decided to make it a 1,000 chip stack with starting blinds of 5/10, timing every blind raise every 15 minutes.
Bringing sunglasses and a hoodie to kick some ass 
Hive account@nanzo-scoop, 
Hive account@gargon with a strong live poker experience, 
Hive account@aggroed who we all know loves card games, 
Hive account@pgarcgo striking with some sick math and probability skills, 
Hive account@bubke with an indescifrable Poker face, 
Hive account@zlatan-spielberg wielding a new skill set and 
Hive account@leotrap with a hardcore aggressive strategy saw their faces in table number one.
Hive account@blocktrades with some sick reading skills, 
Hive account@el-cr brought some serious poker experience from Panama, 
Hive account@cryptogee who arrived a bit late but still kicked some ass, 
Hive account@lizanomadsoul from Germany bringing great hand reading, 
Hive account@martibis showing that bluffing can get you far, 
Hive account@gexi showing us that a tight strategy sometimes is the best, 
Hive account@theaustrianguy winning and losing stacks like crazy and me 
Hive account@anomadsoul faced each other in the second table.
After around one hour and a half of play time, only 7 players remained. That meant we were able to join tables.
Oh right, we also had the presence of 
Hive account@gtg, Hive account@timsaid, Hive account@guyfawkes4-20, 
Hive account@celestal, 
Hive account@tarazkp and Hive account@llfarms as bystanders, Hive account@gtg even started to read Poker for dummies just to be able to understand what was going on every hand.
3 hours passed and only Hive account@el-cr, Hive account@theaustrianguy and Hive account@bubke remained alive. Competing for a 1,500 Steem prize pool is serious business and the player's face definitely changed to a more competitive one.
A few hands were dealt and the smallest stack gave in to the attacks of the larger stacks and Hive account@theaustrianguy won third place. Only Hive account@el-cr and Hive account@bubke still playing for first place.
After several hands and realizing the stacks didn't change much - this means both players have similar approaches, experience and reading skill set - both Steemians decided to split the pot.
Congratulations to Hive account@el-cr Hive account@bubke and Hive account@theaustrianguy! I hope we get to play together next year!
It's worth mentioning that Hive account@blocktrades, Hive account@gargon, Hive account@pgarcgo and Hive account@nanzo-scoop played in the first tournament in Lisbon, I think I'm starting to see a pattern here :P
Again, thanks to Hive account@roelandp for organizing Steem Fest and giving us the chance to put up this little side events for specific niches.
