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On Thursday nights I play poker with a bunch of dead guys.  By dead guys, I mean that they are married and have kids.  Just to let you know how I ended up with all these dead guys you will need a little background.  My best friend, the Aussie, is dead.  His wife is in a mom’s group here in this area.  Well, once a week the women allow their husbands out to play poker.  They always seem so happy to be let out of the house too.  Anyway, one night they needed someone to play and the Aussie asked me and I went.  I’ve been playing with them ever since.

 

About four times a year they get together and have a big tournament.  By big tournament I mean a 50 dollar buy in.  We’re not talking big stakes, we play mostly for fun.  Besides, the dead guys aren’t really allowed to spend money.  We play no-limit Texas Hold’em with about 40 guys for these tournaments so the payouts really aren’t that bad.

 

Tonight is the big tournament and I thought I would blog about it and let you know a little bit about the dead guys that I play with.  There is of course, the Aussie who has spent many years in the casino business like me and that is where we met.  He has a pretty good idea of what is going on and doesn’t make to many mistakes.

 

We also have the Drug Dealer; he’s not really a drug dealer but he works for some pharmaceutical company so that is the way that I think of him.  His wife is the president of the mom’s group so he is kind of the leader of the group.

 

Next to him will be the Eye Doctor.  The Eye Doctor always make me laugh because he has to stand up and lean over the table to see the flop.  An eye doctor that can’t see; you can’t make that kind of stuff up.  Also, whenever the Eye Doctor has a good hand his knee bounces up and down so much he moves the table.

 

Next to him is the Real Estate Agent.  The Real Estate agent is the class clown.  He usually drinks the most and he gets friendlier the more he drinks.  I love it when he gets to the point where he laughs at all his own jokes while we just sit there and stare at him.  The Real Estate Agent love action and plays real loose.

 

Next is Fuck Stick.  Fuck Stick is the guy you’re terrified to introduce your girlfriend too.  He has a hysterical sense of humor but is one of the dirtiest mouths you can imagine.  I suggested that Fuck Stick and I move to Nevada and open a brothel and he told me that was great and his wife could be our first girl.  That’s Fuck Stick.

 

There are more but I have to start getting ready to go.  If I’m not to drunk I will fill you in on the rest of the people and how I did when I get home tonight.  If I’m to drunk you will have to wait until tomorrow night because I have to work tomorrow morning.

 

Tune in later.

 

Matt

 

Update: They called at the last minute and asked me to run the tournament so there was no drinking on my part.  Unfortunately for me I went out in the middle and wished I had been drinking.  Because this is a big tournament for us we invite a lot of people that aren’t part of the usual group so I didn’t know a lot of the players there.

 

Anyway, we started with four tables and our hero was able to catch some hands early and build up a better then average stack and keep things going until we were down to 12 players and getting close to the final table.  At that point there were only six players per table and I had about 30k in chips which was a little better then average at our table.

 

Blinds were 500/1000 with me in the big blind.  Everyone calls the blind around to me and look down and see Ad 10d.  This was the first family pot I has seen all night and liked my hand in the spot.  The flop comes up 7d 2s 8d.  I love this flop here with all the people in the pot.  It’s checked to me and bet 3k.  I’m not sure about this bet here but I figured with five other callers someone had to have picked up something. 

 

It gets folded around to the big stack who calls and it gets folded around the rest of the way.  The turn comes up Qd and I’m thinking I’m golden here.  I think about it for a second and push in 23k and the get called immediately.  I had only seen this guy play a couple of hands so I had no idea what he could possible have that would allow him to call so quickly.  I turn over my ace high flush hoping he has the king.  He shows me a pair of two’s giving him trips.

 

Since I’m writing this you can already figure out what happened.  The river card is the 8c giving him a full house and sending me home early.  I’m not sure if I should have done anything different in this spot.  The only thing I can think of would be to push in on the flop but I don’t really like that play and probably would have gotten called anyway.

 

Oh well, what can you do?  First place would have been 500 and that would have been really good for me.  But, what can you do.

 

Thanks for your time.

 

Matt