Second best home game ever (LONG!)

[andyfox]

That was the latest I've stayed out since the John Quincy Adams administraton. I kept threatening to leave, but I had to get even. I was winning the whole night, and it was hard work, but I did indeed manage to do it. Which was my best home game performance since the Magna Carta.

My favorite SBHE (second-best hold-em) hand was when the river ended up T-6-A-2-2, no flush possible. There were about eight of us who were still in the hand. Checked around. I was the small blind, so I proudly turned up my 8-7. Justin then turned up his 5-4, claiming, "Second best!" Alas, my 8-high didn't hold up for best, much to our chagrin.

My favorite omaha-8 hand was when DD ended up heads-up on the river against mike l. Now mike had been claiming expertise in omaha-8. Which, compared to the way the rest of us played, was a semi-accurate claim. So on the river, DD bets and mike calls. DD shows his cards and says, accurately, "6-low and a 7-high straight." mike lays down his cards, stares confusedly at the board, stares questioningly at DD's cards, stares perplexedly at his own cards, and politely asks, "Did I win any of this pot guys?"

Justin was nothing short of incredible. He decided to bank. Everyone gives him $200, he gives everyone $200 in chips, then proclaims he's $200 short. Josh graciously recounts the cash and discovers that Justin is not short, it's just that he can't discern the difference between $20 bills and $100 bills. Thus you see my concern to finish the evening's festivities with exactly $200, so as not to further confuse the young man.

I'm not sure which was funnier, Gabe's "YOU IDIOT!" or his apology to the family restaurant when he let out an expletive at something mike said that was almost a near-expert comment.

I too haven't laughed that hard in a long time, maybe since the Cro-Magnon era. And I am surely improving at card-throwing. It's all in the wrist.

Thanks, Josh.