The poker night went great. Everyone had a good time, and the tourney went really smooth. The place we had it at worked out also. We had a TV so we got to watch the Pistons game while we played. (sucks that they lost, but as long as they win tonight and split on the road, all will be well)

Anyway, Little Rob won the big tourney. It was a chip battle between him and Nate at the final table. Nate went all in on 2 pair after the flop, Q’s and 2’s, and Rob called him with a pair of Queens with a King kicker. You gotta love Nates chances here. But it wasn’t meant to be when Rob caught a King on the river to get a higher two pair. Tough beat for Nate. That gave Rob enough chips to bully everyone else out. Congrats Rob.

Sommers ended up being my God damn nemesis for this game. 10, 10, 9 on the flop, I’m staring at 10, J in my hand as he goes all in in position ahead of me. I call of course, and run right into a full house as he throws down 10,9. I ended up taking Joey out of the game that hand, but Sommers doubling up on me hurt my chip count more than taking Joey out helped it. Then as I get closer and closer to the felt, I get a wired pair of three’s, go all in, and run right into Jay’s pocket Q’s. Bastard. To make matters worse, I caught a set of 3’s, but he also caught a set of Q’s! That actually made it kind of funny, lol.

Good luck with your ATM card Jay.

This wasn’t the only game of the night however. It wasn’t by far actually. I got home that night (or morning actually) at 6:00am. We played four games total, although the last one wasn’t a “normal” game. 300 in chips, $50.00 blinds, 20 minute showdown type. Good times.

I think we’re going to do this once a month. It seemed like everyone had a good time with it. I don’t know about the playing til 6 thing though, that was a little much. I woke up on Sunday at 10:30 after only 4 hours of sleep. I was kind of a zombie all day yesterday. Also, Joey and I played heads-up for a couple of hours yesterday, after this weekend, I’m for sure poker’d out.

I decided before Saturday’s game that I was done with poker for a while. That after the tourney Saturday night, I was going to take a hiatus from the game. I feel even stronger about that now. There was an incident that happened that helped me make that decision. It made me realize something. No need to get into it now, because I don’t want to start any problems, but let’s just say I’m not going out of my way to set up games for the people I currently play with all the time. To be honest, I don’t know if I ever will again. As it stands, I’m not real happy with the situation. With this in mind, Fish and I decided to run a once a month game like Saturdays. I’ll play in those, but that’s it. I’m done with the weekly/bi weekly games. The funny thing is, with the exception of Fish, no one else will put together a game. If the effort on our part stopped, no one would ever play poker again, lol. Hopefully this will change as people read this….I doubt it though. Just a side note, this is NOT the reason I don’t want to play poker anymore.

Anyway, I went to bed last night at 11:00, relatively early for me, but I still don’t feel 100% yet. After a few more cups of coffee maybe….