Shark-ie

The boy and I went to a poker night last night.

We have been getting into poker over the last few months. It started with me browsing the channels one night and being so bored that I stopped on a poker tournament. Something in the boys head clicked that night, and though I went to bed, he stayed up til like 3 in the morning just immersed in the game. And it has been somewhere on a hill ever since; up or down, you choose... right now I am leaning towards up.

We tried hosting a poker party with our friends, but it did not really work out all that great. The mix was just off, either too much alcohol (which is my choice) or not enough forethought about who was coming and if they even knew how to play...
I managed to convince my step father to give me one of his poker tables and a set of chips; so when we do decide to host another poker party we look all legit. The boy bought a couple of poker simulating computer games and he has been studying up. I happen to have a poker game on my phone, so you can guess what I do on the T. Though in all seriousness I should finish the book that I am reading instead of playing... So it has kind of become our thing.

Two weeks ago, a guy in our small group emailed that he was going to be hosting a poker party and any that were interested could come and play... Well guess who RSVP'd.

The poker night was last night, and including the boy and myself, there were five people total at the party; four guys and me, the only girl. And they where all from church. I have to admit that at first I did not hold out much hope of the party being much fun because of that fact. I was wrong. The party was a blast! One of the guys was a middle school math teacher, and he was kind enough to teach us a few new games that were about ten tons of awesome in a one ton bag, I specially enjoyed crazy pineapple. With dealer rotation came game rotation, so that kept everyone on their toes. It was rather amusing though, because we would learn a new game, play it for a hand, and if it was too stressful for us to handle we would bring our heart rate back down with a good ole' game of Texas Hold'em. Who would have thought that a round of no limit poker was a stress relieving thing... So at the end of the night guess who brought home the pot... Any guess? Any at all? Nope not the math teacher, want to guess again? Nope not the boy, he actually bought back in after loosing all his chips. WAIT, you in the back. What did you say? Louder please and stand up so that everyone can hear. YES! Person in the back, you are correct, the girl won the night! I think that it surprised the heck out of my boy. I think that he thought that I was just humoring him with the watching of the WPT tournaments, not paying attention or something.

To be fair, I will admit that I was incredibly card lucky last night. I think that I caught something like 3 flushes, and a couple of straights, I had "big slick" (ace, king) on more than one occasion, and my fingers where like magnets for aces. What that means to people who do not speak poker, is that when I put a lot of money in the pot and someone called me on it, I had the cards to back it up.

So the house rules of last night were that the winner would take everyone else out to dinner. I have no problem with that, I just think that it might be more fun if I invited the guys over to our (the boy & I's) place, cooked them a yummy home cooked dinner, and had another poker night. I am going to email them, all this idea. What do all you in computer land think?