Last week we played poker on the old lay down that I used to drag everywhere. It seemed like a more personal setting then what it had been lately. For some reason it hit me today why. When we play at the shop at the big table you’re kind of sitting far away from the person directly across from you. Not so much on the middle of the table, but definitely at the ends. Since the old laydown is round (octagon actually) everyone is an equal distance apart from each other. What happened was everyone was in the same conversation. There wasn’t 10 separate little conversations going on. There have been times that I’ve played poker with people at the shop, that I never even got to talk to because they ended up sitting at the other end of the table. Not that I don’t like the table at the shop, but I’m enjoying this personal setting again. It’s nice when you’re playing poker with 5 buddies, and you can talk to all 5 of them.