It's all happening, yes, yes, yes it is.

Major update in Hatland, campers. We have two new members in our exclusive poker crew, who after a long trial period have proved that they can ball like the best gangstas. Jarron Miranda (known online as "Jarron M" -- yes, original -- on Full Tilt) and Kyle "fakedante" Minett have both been inducted into the Five Hats poker crew.

In other news, Jarron and I drove to Lithgow the other night to play the $10 APL (shudder) freezeout. As we got to the club, the lady said, "You do know that poker isn't on tonight?"

This did not bode well.

So we decided, far be it from us to waste a perfectly good 1.5 hours of our lives, and we decided to drive to Star City in Sydney, picking up Sarah and Matty P from Bilpin on the way.

Matty and Jarron jumped on 80NL and I sat down (foolishly) at the softest $5/$10 fixed limit table. I realised early on that these people weren't playing poker, really, just no fold'em hold'em, so I decided to knuckle down and wait for cards. It was boring as fuck. It went like this:

Call preflop with ridiculous odds with a hand like 9sTs. (I'm in late, 6 people have called already, pot $30, pot odds 6:1..)

Miss flop. Fold.

Repeat.

Repeat again, only this time, HIT flop. Bet. Called by 6 people. Turn isn't scary. Bet. Called by 5 people. River is somewhat scary. Check it down, call bet from donk on end of table. Top pair is good. (Donk's bluff, not so good). $130 pot.

After having a few two pairs drawn out on etc. I had my once-proud stack looking short. When my flopped BB 2 pair 8s3s on a board of 8c3d6h flop ended up being outdrawn by 5s2h catching a gutshot I should have left the table with my pride intact, buuuuut... I didn't, and lost most of my $150 buyin. Damn luck wins again.

We even made a movie on my phone to show the contrast between the start of the night and the end of the night. The sync between the audio and video went a bit out of whack at the end... but an enjoyable video nonetheless.

Keep tuned for more Five Hats and Shit updates!