I have a bit of an adrenaline rush at the moment following Adobe’s fantastic PokerCoder event which was held in London last night. It was a fantastic chance to network… whilst playing poker. A big thank you to Sean McSharry and everyone from Adobe who organized the event and made the whole thing possible, it was a refreshing twist on the usual geek event and hopefully will be the first of many!

I didn’t do too badly, making it onto the final table through a strategy which weaved elements of strategy, cunning and sheer luck! Unfortunately losing to a pair of three’s in a slightly misguided assumption that the other guy was bluffing, and simply leveraging his huge pile of chips to intimidate! I was also slightly intimidated when someone else pointed out that one of my fellow finalists was actually a professional poker player and not a Flash developer as I had previously assumed. Oh well, on the bright side, at least I didn’t get knocked out on one of the early rounds with a pair of aces. I like to think I brought some glory to the Brighton contingents valiant efforts.