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Third Saturday in the Three Thirty Four!!!

LETS GOOOO!

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WedgeRock said:
Aye! Clay, plastic and ceramic all on the table at the same time. Two different $25 chips?!

At least you were at a card table.
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Three different $25 chips. The two stacks of WHTC chips under the single $25 chips.

I admire your attention to detail and enjoy viewing pictures from your home game. Without a doubt, a number of PCF'ers have drawn inspiration from your posts.

I live in a very rural part of the country, less than 30,000 people in an area over twice the size of Rhode Island. The game is a one hour drive from home. I count myself fortunate to have a seat locked up considering there are 13 to 14 players eager to play each week and only ten seats.

I have played in a number of home games over the years and what sets this game apart is its history. Elton hosted the game from around 1970 to his passing in 2008. Dave, the current host joined the game in 84 fresh out of high school. In the day, they would play two orbits of $5/$10 limit hold-em followed by one orbit of $5/$10 limit seven card stud.

Player's from Elton's game tried to buy the table off his son, but he refused to sell. In 2010 Dave stopped by and as the story goes, told him he wasn't going to make him an offer on the table, but if he wanted his father's memory to live on, he had a home for it. Elton's son let Dave take the table on condition that if he called asking for the table back, Dave would return it. The rest is history.

Dave, Larry and Steve have been playing together for decades. When Dave took over, he changed the format to $2/$5 NLHE. They dropped the stakes to $1/$2 during the pandemic due to the difficulty of filling the seats. I joined the game in May of last year. The stakes are perfect for me. Everyone buys in for the table max of $300 with the exception of Jimmy and I. Jimmy buys in for $200 some weeks, $300 other weeks. I buy in for $250. Players are allowed to re-buy for $500 after 8PM. With rare exception, the game comes to a hard stop at midnight.

Shortly after I joined the group, Steve's brother failed to show up at the game. Dave inquired about him. Steve said his brother wasn't feeling well and decided to go to the hospital. The following week Dave asked Steve how his brother was doing. Steve told Dave he was so busy that he didn't have a chance to stop by. That was on a Tuesday. Dave called me on Sunday to inform me that Chris, Steve's brother, had passed away from leukemia.

It is a strange feeling showing up at a game in the wake of another players passing. About two orbits into the game, Larry quietly pulls out his wallet, takes out a $100 bill, and slides it across the table to Steve. Without a word, the player sitting to Larry's left followed suit, then Dave and each player to his left. I had a hard time controlling my breathing, it was so spontaneous and unexpected. When it came to me, I too, took out a $100 bill and slid it across the table to Steve, who was tearing up.

He thanked everyone at the table, letting us know how much his brother would have appreciated it. That is the group of guys I play cards with.

As to the odd chips, my understanding is the majority of them are from casino's players in the group played in on poker trips over the years. Mementos from their travels together.
 
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First hopefully annual The Gathering complete. Despite a bunch of players dropping out in the last 24 hours, we still had 12 runners. Total time 7 hours. The bounties we're a hit and it was the first time the Desjgn card were used which were also a big hit. I went out in 8th, but it was good to have everyone together again.
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The Nuts said:
This was supposed to be a fairly quick 3-4 hr tournament... It lasted 8 hours 0_0

I allllllmost won but then got ice cold in the 8th hour and fouled like 10 times in a row. *Sad trombone*

The winner:
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@Gorbash got 3rd place.
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3-4 hour tournament my ass lol. It was awesome to finally meet a fellow PCF'er and play a game I literally had to Google search and hour in advance :). Thanks for hosting Brian.
 
Nice night last night. In for $20 and out for just over $40. Big chunk of that came from two games of Scarney in which I chopped with the low and another with aces full of eights pictured below

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Six deuce! @horseshoez

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Mojo1312 said:
Three different $25 chips. The two stacks of WHTC chips under the single $25 chips.

I admire your attention to detail and enjoy viewing pictures from your home game. Without a doubt, a number of PCF'ers have drawn inspiration from your posts.

I live in a very rural part of the country, less than 30,000 people in an area over twice the size of Rhode Island. The game is a one hour drive from home. I count myself fortunate to have a seat locked up considering there are 13 to 14 players eager to play each week and only ten seats.

I have played in a number of home games over the years and what sets this game apart is its history. Elton hosted the game from around 1970 to his passing in 2008. Dave, the current host joined the game in 84 fresh out of high school. In the day, they would play two orbits of $5/$10 limit hold-em followed by one orbit of $5/$10 limit seven card stud.

Player's from Elton's game tried to buy the table off his son, but he refused to sell. In 2010 Dave stopped by and as the story goes, told him he wasn't going to make him an offer on the table, but if he wanted his father's memory to live on, he had a home for it. Elton's son let Dave take the table on condition that if he called asking for the table back, Dave would return it. The rest is history.

Dave, Larry and Steve have been playing together for decades. When Dave took over, he changed the format to $2/$5 NLHE. They dropped the stakes to $1/$2 during the pandemic due to the difficulty of filling the seats. I joined the game in May of last year. The stakes are perfect for me. Everyone buys in for the table max of $300 with the exception of Jimmy and I. Jimmy buys in for $200 some weeks, $300 other weeks. I buy in for $250. Players are allowed to re-buy for $500 after 8PM. With rare exception, the game comes to a hard stop at midnight.

Shortly after I joined the group, Steve's brother failed to show up at the game. Dave inquired about him. Steve said his brother wasn't feeling well and decided to go to the hospital. The following week Dave asked Steve how his brother was doing. Steve told Dave he was so busy that he didn't have a chance to stop by. That was on a Tuesday. Dave called me on Sunday to inform me that Chris, Steve's brother, had passed away from leukemia.

It is a strange feeling showing up at a game in the wake of another players passing. About two orbits into the game, Larry quietly pulls out his wallet, takes out a $100 bill, and slides it across the table to Steve. Without a word, the player sitting to Larry's left followed suit, then Dave and each player to his left. I had a hard time controlling my breathing, it was so spontaneous and unexpected. When it came to me, I too, took out a $100 bill and slid it across the table to Steve, who was tearing up.

He thanked everyone at the table, letting us know how much his brother would have appreciated it. That is the group of guys I play cards with.

As to the odd chips, my understanding is the majority of them are from casino's players in the group played in on poker trips over the years. Mementos from their travels together.
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I enjoyed reading that, thanks for sharing! Quite a few similarities with my group. I moved back to CA from NoVA in 1983, junior year of high school, became friends with a group of guys around my age +- a year or so (all of us were from like 5 different schools, lol) and started playing poker together later that year. Those were some good times/years back then - turkey day football, over the line, roller hockey, bowling, shooting pool, rec league basketball, etc. We lost our friend Mike, one of our founding members and my first year roommate in college, in 2017 - heat related medical emergency on a boy scout hike in San Rafael. Those of us who are still in the LA area get together whenever we can.

Played last night at my buddy Eric's house - 7 handed. 25/50¢ NLHE/PLO, $1/2 7 stud type games. In for $100, got worked over the first two freaking hands of the night (went all-in & got quartered in Pineapple Omaha8 and then all-in and coolered, PPLO8 again, on an Ace high flush to my King high flush, both times on the river and both times I was ahead after the turn - $%& ME! - I would have taken pics but I was too tilted/traumatized, haha). Bought in for another $100 and only won back $13 by the end of the night so in for $200 and out for $113).

Broke in the Super Poker World chips and got 3 rounds of "mario kart racing" in (25¢/.50/.75/$1) - the last round, the wives came around to see what all the shouting was about and we ended up dealing them in for the last race...

2 decks for 11 people.
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Figuring out the scratches.
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Fast forward, #4 car Mario for the win! (of course I didn't have any 4's... smh) You know it's sad when you have more M&Ms than chips...
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Samuel said:
I enjoyed reading that, thanks for sharing! Quite a few similarities with my group. I moved back to CA from NoVA in 1983, junior year of high school, became friends with a group of guys around my age +- a year or so (all of us were from like 5 different schools, lol) and started playing poker together later that year. Those were some good times/years back then - turkey day football, over the line, roller hockey, bowling, shooting pool, rec league basketball, etc. We lost our friend Mike, one of our founding members and my first year roommate in college, in 2017 - heat related medical emergency on a boy scout hike in San Rafael. Those of us who are still in the LA area get together whenever we can.

Played last night at my buddy Eric's house - 7 handed. 25/50¢ NLHE/PLO, $1/2 7 stud type games. In for $100, got worked over the first two freaking hands of the night (went all-in & got quartered in Pineapple Omaha8 and then all-in and coolered, PPLO8 again, on an Ace high flush to my King high flush, both times on the river and both times I was ahead after the turn - $%& ME! - I would have taken pics but I was too tilted/traumatized, haha). Bought in for another $100 and only won back $13 by the end of the night so in for $200 and out for $113).

Broke in the Super Poker World chips and got 3 rounds of "mario kart racing" in (25¢/.50/.75/$1) - the last round, the wives came around to see what all the shouting was about and we ended up dealing them in for the last race...

2 decks for 11 people.
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Figuring out the scratches.
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Fast forward, #4 car Mario for the win! (of course I didn't have any 4's... smh) You know it's sad when you have more M&Ms than chips...
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Dang that horse racing looks awesome! 11 people - oh heck yeah!
 

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