We played our first $5 a head tournament that Friday night and we played continually until we had to leave on Sunday. Our turn out to Waldo's was quite small in 2003 (4 people only) which worked great if you wanted to stay in the game. You never sat long before another game started. The games started fairly slow as we had to thumb through the Poker For Dummies (too often) to find out what we were supposed to be doing.* Once we had the basics, we all were hooked.
Here are the pictures of Harvey (PGE - Pre-Gepeddo-Era), Waldo, Jason Mowat and Me...
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| We all had to wear Waldo's parent's gardening hats. I wish I still had the awesome purple Palamino Club hat. |
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| Harv, Jason and Waldo (There he is!) |
Following this weekend we started our home poker game. It ran occasionally and we moved from tournaments to 10 cent / 25 cent Fixed Limit Hold Em. Can you imagine playing for a $3 pot? (Those were the days when Harv was ultra aggressive and ultra tilty LOL). We continued the tradition of cards during our Waldo cabin weekend and the turn outs grew bigger. I believe it was 2004 when we played with a full table and The Crantini Kid and Gepeddo got their poker names.
Over the years, Jay, Mike and I have stuck with it and we've made a healthy regular game out of that night. You've all joined us as friends of ours, friends or co-workers of friends, clients or even in Solly's case, you delivered pizza and decided to stay and play. A couple of you are 7 degrees of separation from the original player that was part of our game. I'd say we've ended up with a pretty fun and diverse group with a common love of losing money the game.
Cheers to you all, thanks for making it fun!
*--We had so little knowledge of the game that we believed 73 off suit was the worst starting hand. When we learned this was not the case, 73 off suit became a trademark of our future games, inspiring a tournament series and a long running jackpot bonus.
25 comments:
sounds like a great story for how the game got started......i'm sure as the game continues to evolve and players get better you'll one day learn that you play really quite bad.
here is the ranking of skill from what i've seen so far:
kramp
bobby
co
dandy
tmart
geppedo
army
lemon
lucksack schneider
there are some people in between there that i've left out, however, the important fact is that you're at the bottom.
Cramp Cramp Cramp, I think you should have been a Lawyer the way you run your mouth so good. Have you told your wife yet that it costs $150 a night to join our bi-weekly poker game and that is why you never come home with any money? I'm sure she will understand.
Brain Kramp, in all fairness you are right, you play good at times, great at others, you are one of the better players at our game, if not the best (at times). I won't comment on the rest of the list as I know some of it is done tongue in cheek. I am glad that you have picked up the game so quickly and that you have enjoyed becoming a regular at our home game.
(Big Stack....shhhh....don't tap the glass, it scares the fish. The above was damage control and my fingers hurt just typing that crap.)
guys, in all seriousness, kramp is probably one of the best at our game. i know that i respect his play above all others. i know kramp jokes around lots but he is probably the best i've ever played against.
p.s. this is not a joke and i'm not kramp writing this.
wow, who left that message? i guess tooting my own horn all this time has finally paid off and people are starting to respect me. if i had to guess who wrote that i would have to say it was probably army or co or maybe even dandy. they're the only ones that are humble enough to step outside of their ego's and realize reality when it slaps them in the face.
I know it iw kind of a recession these days but is business really that slow for you Chiropractors that you can spend all day on your computer. And to think you have to stooped that low to get your kids to log in and pump you up. Geez Kramp your horrible.
P.S. brings lots of money tonight.
i wish i could come and get my rent money for the month from both bobby and clayton, however, my wife needs me more then she needs your money. and she LOVES your money.
For those that didn't get the memo, the anonymass comment was Brain Kramp.
I told him he was gutless because he picked people in his skewed "rankings" that were not leaving comments on the blog. I told him I was going to log on as Co and trash him, but he decided to use my move to say what a great player he is. We all know that the only person to say Kramp is a good player is Kramp himself so because he was sick of waiting for others to do it, and he didn't want to put the time in to be a better player, he figured he better just do it himself, anonymously. Can anyone blame the little guy?
whoa whoa whoa, easy there clayton. i would never leave a comment that didn't have my name on it. that would be a low and gutless thing to do. and while you have a much bigger gut then i do, i still have one. i have no idea who left that comment.
I think we should host a game where revisit our roots and bring out the old plastic chips. We could invite over all our friends that want to learn and watch them play a whole bunch of cheap tournaments, listen to early '00 music and cheer Kramp on as he tries to remember that there is no card after the river.
On the other hand, why should the fish get all of Brain Kramp's money without us getting a shot at it too?
That reminds me, our blog is setting up a referral program for Kramp Chiropractic so that we ensure our game is healthy for many years to come. You've gotta give the fish a pellet every now and then!
first of all this fish has been giving free adjustments to patients for about a year now...... i don't charge anyone! "why?" you might ask. it's simple! since i've been playing poker with clayton i have been able to pay all of my bills with his money. i feel quite bad that he has to sell his body in order to not let jen know that he loses so much. although i have heard him say that selling his body has been the most enjoyable job he's ever had!
ouch!!!!!
Kramp's free adjustments is to chiropractors as broken toilets on free day is to commerce.
nice one big dumper! i'll remember that as i'm collecting my monthly donation from you at the next game.
Kramp lets make a side bet on the next home game. Every pot you win over say $30 dave it dollars you have to drink a beer and have it finished before one full rotation of the deal. I will even supply the beer. Any takers???
that's a horrible bet because you'd have to buy at least 2 cases of beer per person in the bet......i'm gonna score big next game. and i'm going to make sure it's all from little stack bobby and big dumper schneider.
Big Stack,
We should make anyone that wins 30 Kramp dollars in a pot, drink a beer in the rotation, just to give the little guy a chance.
You will still need several cases of beer as Kramp pointed out.
i can't wait till next game. i'll only need to bring $10 because i'm going to get more action than charlie sheen. you'll be spewing more chips than i can handle. hurry up and book the next game, my kids need to eat!
The only thing you have in common with Charlie Sheen is that you get busted all the time as well. Keep your head up Kramp I am lookng to fund my Vegas trip with Donkey money.
if you're looking to fund your trip with donkey money then just play with yourself cause you're the biggest donkey at the table..... i don't think i've seen someone play as bad as you before..... no wait, yes i have i think big dumper aka lucksack schneider is worse than you. so look to play him alone if you're looking to make money.
Big Stack that "busted like Charlie Sheen" comment was pure gold! You used his own props against him, so nice!
All a fish can do is flop around and try to defend himself...
I remember the debate between those of us playing back in the day in Joffa's rented basement, when some of us wanted to change the fixed limit game to no limit. This was probably partially a reaction to not being able to protect your hand in a limit that made the game "no fold em hold em" and also because No Limit was catching on everywhere. Our casinos only spread Fixed Limit and it was a common game back in the day so it seems like i should never have been an issue, but people were worried that pot sizes would get too big. The truth is No Limit is a scarier beast and the pots were small because most people learned to tread lightly, except Mikey. Eventually the blinds had to go up because the pots were puny.
I just had a friend ask me which poker book she should buy her 12 year old as he is starting to get into poker with his friends.
Even though I have never read it, Poker For Dummies got our game going and look at us now!
Happy Birthday buddy, I expect you'll be blogging about your poker exploits in a couple of years. Or maybe I'll be blogging about you playing heads up against "Old Man Durrrr" for billions of dollars...
We should have a yearly poker game at someone's cabin. The only problem for a couple of you - no ATM's nearby except Kramp.
it's true.....one of my nicknames is ATM Kramp...... but it's because i've got All The Money!
The urban dictionary has a lot to say about ATM and none of them refer to "All the Money".
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