Poker at Tim's
(09/29/07)
We talk about doing it more often, but we rarely actually do. But this particular Saturday night, we pulled it off! We got ourselves a poker game together at Tim's apartment (the one he was in quite briefly before he stumbled upon his house), and A.T., Rich, Chris, James, Ken and me showed up for cards, chips, drinks, pizza, sandwiches and, interestingly, Halloween sugar cookies (hey...look at the date).
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It's the pre-game
show, brought to you by your sandwich-munching commentators, Rich
and A.T. According to Rich, tonight's big poker game should be,
and I quote, "Mrrph mmrr Mrphh MRRPH mrgh." |
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A.T. and Ken getting down with
the munchies and the boozies. |
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Don't know why Chris is so happy.
He IS sitting on a love seat...ALONE. Something about THAT ain't
right... |
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Tim shows off his new flatscreen
HD set. I'm going to give him the benefit and assume he didn't actually
click on the "Country Music Videos". |
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Yes, the proud poker champ Tim,
and his nifty table, are ready for some Hold 'Em. Soon as Rich finishes
mixing those drinks... |
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And the Pokering begins! Now
that Rich's famous Mai Tais are in the mix, we're good to go! |
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During the first break, Chris
swallows some pizza while A.T. thinks over his strategy. Or maybe
he's watching a country music video in the background... |
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James finally showed and got
dealt in. I think you can see by the look on Rich's face how he
feels about Tim's growing stack. |
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JUST kidding. Rich is having
a great time! See? |
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Chips in play, liquor flowing.
Can you just sense the excitement? |
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Me and Tim, holdin' 'em and
foldin' 'em. I'd like to rethink that sentence, please... |
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Things are getting down and
dirty as Tim works his shufflin' magic. Taste the tension! |
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Me, Tim and James - HUSTlahs. |
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James and Rich (who, obviously,
hasn't had enough to drink yet). |
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Speaking of drinks, A.T.'s ready
to hit the Jagermeister! Perhaps he thinks there's some gullible
college girls showing up later? |
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Here's A.T., knocking down that
first Jager shot... |
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...and then blowing it right
out his nose when someone makes him laugh! Oww! It buuurrrrrns! |
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Rich throws 'em down. Are they
good enough to beat Ken's? Ken seems unsure. Perhaps if you zoom
in, you can figure it out. |
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That's right! A.T.'s got BOTH
of these for you...jerks and your...chips and your full...houses
and...screw you! |
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Lots of action, lots of action.
Chris goes for the bold move and bets some GREEN ones. The stones
on that guy! |
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I think this is the point where
the guys got tired of talking smack to one another and decided to
text the smack instead. Hey, it is 2007... |
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James points out to Rich that
he misspelled that word, and besides, that's not anatomically possible
for his mother to manage anyway... |
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Tim says, "Huh?" |
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Arrr! I'm Jack Pokey, the card-sharkin'
pirate! Behold me spades, matey! |
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Look deeply into my chips. You're
getting sleeeeepy... |
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And we close the night with
a shot of the poker boys. Champions all! Well, okay, that's not
really accurate. Like,champions "one", really. |
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And one more in case someone
blinked. You know how it goes. |