Guess who's back, back again...

Around 0200, after a solid six or seven hours of play, we still had a full table. And this is on a school night, too! Matt, Superdave, and Bert's guest, Jimmy, played three handed for a looooooong time late into the night. Around 0400 there were rumors that Dave was gonna quit so he could get to McDonald's "right when they open."

He was bluffing. I begged Nelly to deal around that time and I passed out on the couch. When I woke up at 0700, they were finally quitting.

It all started 12 hours prior with a $100 Free-roll. Each of the nine player seats at the table was given 40 tournament chips and I high-carded for the button. To start, Matt was on the button. The blinds were vacant seats, The Scott was about UTG + 1, raised to 10 with the blinds at 1/2. Keenan was on his left, and folded. $5/$10NL Blue went all-in. Matt folded the button.

But what about the other five seats? They claim they were stuck in traffic, or something. I was determined to give everyone a fighting chance at the free roll, so I didn't just take the stacks off the table... who wants to play a four-handed free roll?

The Scott had AdTd that first hand, Blue was holding pocket sevens. Flop was T96. Sure enough, Blue hit his six-outer for the straight.

Eventually, with the big stack, Blue knocked out Keenan AND Matt. But as I said... I was determined...

So I dealt two cards to every remaining stack. I mucked the vacant seats, and asked Blue what he would like to do. Who knows, he might've wanted to fold? He went all-in and took down the blinds against the empty seats for a good five or ten hands.

Then Dennis (from The Scott's game) showed up. After a brief explanation of the situation, he took his seat. Nevin walked through the door not too long after.

I tried to tell Nevin how we arrived at this point of the game. He sat down UTG + 1 with a few chips still in that stack. He flat-banged it. Blue called out of the blinds. Nevin was out of the free roll before he really got in.

Blinds were up to 5/10 (with only 360 in play) there were five remaining "players." Blue and Dennis each had stacks (Blue had doubled up Dennis several times) and the button had one big blind left. Rock and Kenny walked through the door. Rock chose the big blind, with half it's stack committed to the pot. Kendrick took the sb with five chips in the pot, and nine behind.

They fought valiantly. After ten or fifteen grueling minutes, and bumping the blinds up to 6/12 - the two late (well, latest) arrivals doubled up to a level of contention, and Dennis was knocked out. Blue, Rock and Kenny took a 40/30/30 chop, and we moved in to the $1/$2 NL action.

At one point in the middle of the free-roll Blue could smell and see the food that had been prepared by Nelly. He mentioned that he would rather have busted out of the FR so he could eat the scrumptious meal than continue to play it.

Nelly made her Mushroom Swiss Chicken, and it was damned good. She always makes a good meal. Any suggestions for next week - let us know.

For our first game back, it was no Fish Tank. Lineup is as follows.

Seat	Player	Signature Phrase
1	Kendrick	"Come on, duece!"
2	The Scott	"Are those all diamonds?"
3	Keenan	"All right, fuckstick"
3.5	Big John	"Checkinthe dark"
4	Rock	"Come on man, bet that shit!"
5	Blue	"LAG blah LAG blah blah"
6	Matt	"We got any beers (hiccup) left?"
7	Dennis	"I fold"
8	Nevin	"I think you're BOTH weak"
9	SuperDave	"Ring ring... I'm calling"

Big John had showed up a few minutes later so we squeezed him in as a tenth player. When Rocco showed up, Matt offered to sit out until a seat opened up. Keenan was a little upset by this after the beat Matt just put on him. Read Keenan's Blog to hear him tell the story incorrectly, in his own words.

Gypsy Pete showed up a little later to fill Big John's shoes.

Pretty late into the night, Bert and his buddy Jimmy showed up. Appearantly Jimmy and Kendrick have some history, and they exchanged a few jokes upon arrival.

After eleven or twelve hours of play, we managed to run the Bad Beat Jackpot up to $2078. If you do the math, that's roughly a $100 pot every ten minutes. I think?

So yeah, we got action.