Poker Night

Today was good because I woke up, took down the tree, and talked with parents and ate food, and my parents were being funny. My mom was making arguments how it was possible to be "brooding pleasantly" and other contradictory things of that nature just to disagree with my dad, even if it didn't make any sense. Then at seven I went to BGs for poker with Keith, Adam, Ben, Jake, Neal, Gagne, Thies and I thought there were nine but maybe just eight. Oh, greg kleehammer. Goody. Yup. Great times. Except that the first two people out, ben and gagne, got fully reimbursed with the amount they started with, which I had a problem with because they were getting more chips than they could have had by winning, and you shouldn't get rewarded for losing and things of that nature, but my vote was vetoed and I wasn't getting things to turn in my favor so a few kids later I was out because of the river. Then next game everyone was in and it was good. We initiated a betting limit of 3x the ante because in the past the betting gets outrageous at the beginning and kids go out fast and then the winner of those first few hands comes out super rich as a result of beginner poker players. So we did that and it worked, I'd say, and an hour into it we repealed it and it was good. Kids were playing crazy games like Spit in the Ocean, Baseball Poker, 5 card stud, and 5 card one draw, which I disapproved of so I sat most of them out either because so much betting was involved or I wasn't familiar with how to play them, but the times I did play I won, and minimal betting was going on in the non-Texas holdem games. Then I was medium rich went all in and poorer people than I won but I won the side-pot and then I was down to 30 chips. I won once more and went up to 50, then a few hands later I got pocket jacks and went all in and was called by two people and I ended up tripling up to become matched with Jake and our chips together were about ben's. Then I won again about 40. Then I put Jake all-in with pair of jacks early and won again and suddenly I was chip leader. Then I went all in, Ben called, and ben and I tied each with a Queen-Six and everyone was wowed. Then I went all in next hand and lost on the river, but I had wanted it to end that hand anways. I am confident that one on one with ben, and many other people, I can take him out any day, so losing bothered me none. Oh, and earlier we were playing Black Jack and betting and I got turned up an Ace. I totally pulled off the "what is the ace again? eleven? And the object is to get 21? so basically I won already" and the next seven people instantly folded to my bet. Adam called just because he wanted to play. He's like "i assume you don't want any cards?" and I said, "no, hit me." It was awesome. Adam burst out laughing along with some other people I had bluffed out and I got high fived and congratulated. Everyone was amazed at my tricks and I enjoyed it also-proof that acting is more than half the battle. Mainly, it just feels great to trick everyone in the room. Anyway, tomorrow I plan to play some magic with the geeks, hopefully at neal's dad's house, else it's at the den because it's at my house way too much, and the den would be a weird place to play. That's it for me and my tricks. Hope to catch ya on the flip side!