poker is fun.

on sunday night, superette played host to its biggest poker night ever with nine participants joining in the fun. it was a $5 buy-in/ winner-goes-home-with-it-all game.



the group for the evening included ann, girlladyfriend, ashbloem, david, boston tara, will, nebraska, interravision and carrrrrrrrrmen. there were so many people, one of mogo's trusty craft fair folding tables had to be retrieved and added on to the end of the dining room table. it was a little tight but it worked out just fine.



and thank god for that new poker set that ann and dabney received for christmas. it was perfect; plenty of chips for the nine players (and by the way, one deck works for 2-10 players). everyone dined on a lot of cheese in the form of rotel and pizza (except of course for girlladyfriend and interravision, a.k.a. the lactose-intolerant twins, who ordered salads). a mish-mosh of beverages was imbibed: bourbon courtesy of ashbloem and david, proseco courtesy of carrrrrrrmen, guiness and bailey's courtesy of boston tara, wine from will and nebraska, and superette's always random assortment of leftover beers.



during the 3 hour game, everyone played quite aggressively and what was funny was that carrrrrrrrmen got a taste of her own medicine and didn't like it one bit - everytime someone would raise before the flop, she pouted. ah, sweet revenge.

ashlbloem was the first to go out. carmen, still bitter about the fearless betting, was later eliminated. then interravision knocked out boston tara and girlladyfriend in one dramatic hand. david was hanging in there for a bit but then went out next. then nebraska's small stack eventually got the better of him. ann knocked out will out with a well-timed flush. finally, it was ann and interravision in head-to-head action.



at first, they were pretty evenly matched chip-wise, but ann steadily whittled down interravision's stack in series of quick hands. then it came down to the final hand during which interravision went all-in and ann called her big old bluff. jack high won the evening. a pretty anti-climatic final hand, but dabney would have been so proud.

(thanks to notyomomma for the splendid phone pics.)