Happy New Year!
The blogosphere is awash in New Years greetings and resolutions. While I wish you all the best things in 2004, I am not going engage in the public resolutions thing.
I am gunna talk about Poker. Thanks to Brad, I got to play some poker on New Year’s Eve Eve. The games at Brad’s house are friendly affairs with a $20 buy-in and a $2 raise limit. Enough to make it interesting, but not enough for hard feelings.
I have a great time everytime I go. This session was no exception, even though I left $20 lighter than I arrived. 🙂
A few nice scenes from the gameplay…
Playing five card draw, deuces wild, Chris drew 5 cards to the derision of the table.
He pulled a nice set of three aces and took the pot easily.
Rich produced the rare and elusive straight flush.
Brad retired the deck and intends to mount the hand in a picture frame for preservation.
Here are a few lessons I learned:
1) Even when you have a full house, someone else may have four queens.
2) A flush is a good hand, but not a great hand, when playing Anaconda.
3) Don’t let the newest player sit to the right of the most experienced player.
4) Luck plays a big part of poker, don’t forget it.
Five card draw… deuces wild, plus jokers???
The Poker Gods are miffed…
I appluade your decision not to publish resolutions. I applaude all bloggers that refuse to do what every other weblog is doing for filler content!
great photo of rich, but how do I know those cards were not photoshoped!
Five card draw, deuces wild with one joker is a storied game with a long history.
Oh, and a flush is crap in Anaconda.
Was I the sucker at that table or what? I should have left when I was about $10 ahead. Instead, I left $15 short.