Spent my evening getting terrible starting hands and watching the game from the sidelines.  Very boring, to sit their the whole evening watching your colleagues play!  My table had good poker players and I was not too confident to go with a weak opening hand.  Then eventually I thought ahh why not, and went with my five, eight off suited.

I just thought lets give it a try and see what comes out on the flop.  Always remember that your opponents never know what you have, if you’ve been playing tight all night, then they may think ahhh she has finally picked up a good hand, I had better back off for now…

Anyway I got lucky with my five, eight – got another five on the flop and the river card turned out to be an eight.  My two pair ended up being strong enough to take that hand.  But then I tried it again later and got bust, sometimes you get lucky and sometimes you don’t – thats poker folks! Better than wimping and limping on the sideline!!!