Since I already have this week's Illustration Friday topic covered ( smoke ), I thought I'd write a few words on last Thursday's poker game. It was fun. Improbably, I won. Poor Leo: he must have had a dozen times the stack I did, yet our heads-up confrontation saw him gutted in no time flat (it probably didn't help to have an I-want-to-go-home-now Adam jeering at him in the background). Of course I had to get lucky, but the main thing was that he wouldn't let me see any cards for cheap, so my decisions were extremely simplified (all-in or fold). Martini was (surprisingly) cautious, Alex was characteristically unpredictable (that Q-9 all-in will always be a personal favourite of mine) and Flo was not only suffering from incompetent dentistry but extremely uneven luck (isn't that how it always goes for the host?). Okay, while I'm tempted to wrap up with some jokes about cheating here, I'm told that's not very funny, so I'll just thank Flo for orga