Poker Party

I had a bunch of guys over last night to play poker. Mark Kohne, Bruce Green, my brother Dan, Brad, Bob, Eli, Niemi and my neighbor Terry were all there. We play in my garage in order to smoke cigars and be close to the fridge.

I took a lot of heat for having a poker game on my wife's birthday. It's a long story, but it's not like it seems. The bottom line is that Cathie was okay with it and to top it off, she got to have 8 hour of tune guys sing 'Happy Birthday' to her. Cathie's friend Dana came over with her girls and hung with Cathie and the kids ended up getting to bed around 12:30am when the game was done. We played one long round of tournament style Texas No-Limit Hold 'em, which surprisingly, neither Eli or I won. Normally it's either Eli, Bob or I winning and this time Brad, Eli and Bob ended up in the final three before we called it to move on to the next game. We played dealer's choice for a while and I ended up taking in about $30 in a game of blind-baseball. We always have a great time when we play. Wasn't quite the same without Ted and Will there.