Every Tuesday night, I play in a poker league. It begins at 7:00 (or shortly thereafter - we're hardly ever on time) and is a tournament style game, meaning that when it begins, you're given a certain number of chips. When your chips are gone, you're out. The game is played until somebody has all the chips on the table. Typically, the game lasts until around 11:30, but on any given night, it may finish earlier or later, depending on how many players we have, when we start, etc.
Now normally, my Tuesday night pre-poker schedule is pretty much the same every week. I get home from work and take a nap (since I know I'm going to be out late, it's good to catch a few z's before i play). Then I'll wake up, grab a bite to eat and make it to the poker game, rested, fed and ready to amass my fortunes on the poker table. My Tuesday night staple food is Taco John's tacos - they are the best tacos in the area, and on Tuesdays, a hardshell taco is 59 cents (they're 99 cents every other day of the week, so that's a pretty good value). However, my routine hit a snag last night, when I overslept from my nap. I hurried to get myself ready to go, but once I got into my car, I realized that I wasn't going to have time to eat and make it to poker on time. So I decided to scrap dinner and made it to the game right at 7:00, albeit it with an empty stomach.
Our game started on time - there were six of us playing - and right away, I won a couple of pots. As the evening went on, my chip count was slowly but steadily increasing - but so was my hunger. I was definitely feeling the effects of my missed dinner. By 9:00 or so, nobody had been knocked out yet, and I had about twice as many chips as when i had started. It was looking like I was going to be there till the end. Now it was just a question of how long it would take to finish - because even though Taco John's is open until the wee hours of the morning, if I don't make it there before midnight, Tuesday will turn to Wednesday and my tacos are going to be 40 cents more a piece. And with as many tacos as I eat, that's a few extra dollars out of my pocket!
Well, one by one, players started gettng eliminated from the tournament, until at about 10:30, there were just two players left, myself and "T", who is a really good, solid poker player. Usually, once our poker game gets down to two people, it's a matter of a few minutes before somebody wins and we all go on our merry way. But not last night. "T" won a few hands early on, and by 10:45, we were about even in chips, with neither of us close to being knocked out. My stomach was starting to serenade me, so I asked him if he wanted to split the pot. He politely declined, so we continued playing, and my stomach continued to yell . I'm sure this time though, it was yelling at "T", as it knew my intentions were good!
Anyway, the ending to this story is that, at about 11:10, I ended up losing the poker game to "T". But don't be sad for me, my loyal readers, because at around 11:40, I pulled up to the Taco John's drive-thru window and ordered my discounted tacos with a smile on my face.
Don't you just love happy endings!!
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11 comments:
well, since you are playing poker for actual chips pretzels and MnM's you shouldnt be that hungry. Playing for money is illegal and therefore NOT something my big brother would be doing anyway, right!?
well, we're using poker chips - but we don't play for money - no way - do you think i'd do something like that? ;)
Rush to get ready for Poker, then rush to make it to Poker, then rush to make it to Taco Tuesday, then rush to get home before you poo yourself, then rush to get to sleep so you can save up the remaining poo for your fellow co-workers. Ah, the circle of life.
I am sure that the only reason that you lost was that you were hungary and wanted to make it to Taco Johns by midnight.
How much did you loss by not winning poker? How much did you save at Taco John's?
Carefully everyone those one is full of excuses.
Go get him little tucker!! Hee hee hee.
no excuses - i was beaten fair and square... and if you'd have shown up, my 2nd place finish would have paid a couple dollars more!! :)
I contributed to the Taco John fund.
Yes, but, you were definitely trying to get the game over with. :-)
Heads-up went something like this: Wait for "T" to show some interest in a hand. If "T" commits one chip voluntarily, either get all his chips in the middle, or get him to fold.
So, I wouldn't say you completely threw the game, but you weren't playing your best, either.
See, I was just trying to help you improve your heads-up play. I can understand how overwhelmed you must have felt going heads-up against me with a 10:1 chiplead (heh), I'm just trying to help you improve your heads-up play.
But, the tacos sound like a better excuse. LOL
Solution: This is what I would call the Taco Johns calculation of least frustration for the manipulation of malnutrition through the savoring of the beef crustacean. Pay your entry fee early and let yourself be blinded down a couple times, and you will still have plenty of chips, but you won't be hungry.
Yep, I love happy endings!
Tuck-
Just added you to my blogroll!
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