[Taso]

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edited real quick, want to get permission from Brian before I post it.

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Trip report!?!

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Me and my brother showed up a little early, cdhockey (Chris) who I've played with before at my own game came and we all sat and talked for a few minutes (an essential part of the pre-game, makes it less awkward when they show you a bluff), and then, I can't remember the fellows name, maybe Sanford, yeah, that sounds about right, showed up and we started playing 5 handed.

I can't really remember any big hands going on here (and even for the hands later in the night, the big ones I remember are the ones I was involved in, so its a biased TR :P ) But I do remember me trying to bluff a lot, and getting called a lot.

Anthony showed up a while later (Brian found both he and Sanford on meetup (or whatever its called?) sporting a cast on his right arm. He may have had bad luck on the motorcycle, but lemme tell you, he had some incredible luck in the game. I don't think he lost a hand for the first 2 hours of the game, and he played a bunch of them too. Big pairs, flopped flushes, he had it all. He's a swell guy though, so we didn't mind losing to him. Anyways, obviously, I stacked off to him semi-bluffing an open ended straight draw on the flop.

A few minutes after this, Ryan and Esection arrived, whereupon the game got nice and loose. Me, Chris and Esection (Matt) were straddling, re-straddling, and re-re-straddling, and defending too, haha. I was loving it; mad ruspekt to the fellow straddlers. I will admit, I hadn't straddled until Matt questioned my level of bitchdom, and then I HAD to straddle.

With all these straddles going on, I was able to rob a bunch of 8-way limped pots, and eventually I was back to around $35, just down $5, when me and Anthony both hit our flushes on the turn (mine the better) and I managed to double through, basically. It was an exciting moment, a moment of hope, the kind of moment that was deserving of some LOTR type music. He could be beaten it appeared. I think that was the first or second pot he lost, for real, after maybe 2-3 hours of play (I think Chris beat him a pot too, its hard to remember)

Somewhere in the night, Russ showed up. Russ likes to play big pots, and he likes to bluff big and bet his hands big. For some reason, he always ends up trying to bluff me out of a huge pot, and I read him perfectly, and it never works. I don't remember the hand exactly, but I had 32o, hit a 2 on the flop, and ended up calling him down for about $30. I was happy, he was fairly angry. What can ya do?

After a while, Anthony was getting low on chips and went all in on the flop, with a K and two random diamonds. I had Ax of diamonds, called the $20 (I think there was something like $50 in the pot already, I figured I was about 40% to win, it was a questionable call, no doubt, Brian said as much too) but at this point I was up over a hundo anyways, and I didn't mind gambling really. In any case, he had the K of diamonds and another diamond, so I was about 40%, but hey, I hit my card on the turn, and that was all she wrote.

Overall, I finished with about $160, so I made about $120. I can't remember who else won. I think Russ ended up about $5, Chris was +$80 I think, Brian finished dead even, Ryan, Anthony, Sanford, Matt, and my brother busted out.

In any case, it was a fun night as usual, Brian ran a tight ship, the game went smoothly, and it was a pleasure meeting the new players.

Obviously, this is the game from my point of view, what limited memory I have of it. I encourage anyone else to post about it, maybe Brian, you can write about the hand you played (jk), Chris, I know you bluffed me a couple times...Esection, you can write about immasculating me, challenging the size of my straddle.


Taso

(I've never written a TR before, sorry if this sucks)