Poker Tennis

We organized our first "Fun Tennis " event , which I called "Poker Tennis"... on Sunday morning 4 May 2008... The response was quite good... we had a LOT of japanese members who were very eager to play...

Lisa has much better handwriting than me. She was kind enough to write the rules up on the board... here's how it works:

We were lucky to have exactly the right number of men and ladies so that we could fix the pairing as all mixed doubles... after each round, the players came out of the court and drew cards... then the players changed to new partners and continued on another round.

We played from about 9 in the morning until 11 am and by that time, everyone was feeling the heat a bit so we retired to the bistro for a bit of makan and some cold Guiness Draft!

We awarded the prizes for the best poker hands that the players could make. Lim Koon Seng was leading all the way, having secured a full house on his first 5 cards... However Li Siok caught him on the last card with a higher full house... Soon Hong came in 3rd with 3 of a kind... Harumi, Patsy and Josephine all came in with two pair ... but everyone got a prize... compliments of Tan Kok Pooh, who generously donated the playing cards ...

The best prize was a huge box of a dozen decks of cards, which was for the bottom Champion...who turned out to be Dr. Alif ... whose hand was a One-Eyed-Jack High... Dr. Alif had to go for his rounds and couldn't make it for the lunch... but his prize was eagerly taken up by our currently "One-Eyed-Jack" Captain, Mr. Loo Choo Teng!

It was great fun and we hope to organize another round (Kok Pooh gave us a LOT of cards)... Maybe next round will be in the evening...but in any case you better sign up early if you want to play... The response should be very good next time and there's only so many pairs we can handle for an event like this... Thanks again to all the participants, supporters, donors, tennis committee members, groundsmen, and club staff that helped make the event a success....