Flop: A, K, J – all clubs. Johnson will bet into anything!
With Mike’s return to school this Friday, our Saturday/Wednesday summer poker games have come to an end. We played our last game Wednesday. It’s very sad. I feel like a heroine addict living in a nation that just won the war on drugs.
The poker games started the beginning of last summer. Our game is Texas Hold’em, and $5 buys you $500 in chips (we are big stake gamblers, you see). We have anywhere between 5 to 10 people show up for a game. The usual suspects are myself, Johnson, Mike D., Tommy, Nicole, Chris, and Adam – though we occasionally have special guest stars like Guy Who Calls Anything and Perez. As you can tell by the cowboy hat that Johnson is wearing in the photo above, we are very serious about our gambling. Poker is great. For a $5 buy-in one gets four or five hours of non-stop hilarious fun. Even if you go home broke, you just had 4-5 of hilarious fun. Compare that to the cost of going to a two hour movie for $10 and which may or may not turn out to be hilariously fun.
I think I’m going to start having some games when I get back to Stanford – so if you are at all interested in some crazy low-stakes Texas Hold’em action, drop me a line.
Nicole after hitting quads on the river (not pictured: opponents)
I am as dedicated to poker as any one can be.
I have got a fan page over at Facebook. If you wanted to check it out: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Poker-Players-Only/136818223026737