Wanna Bet?

So as I mentioned a few weeks ago, I have joined a poker league. Tuesday night was the second night of tournament play (the first week I came in second for my table). I did not fare so well this time and was the first one out for my table, second out if you count the guy that was a no-show and had to take sixth place by default. Anyhow the emerging trend seems to be that the people that get out first in their tables start another game for cash. We had five of us all ready to play a cash game when five more people decided that they were going to join. I don't really think any of them had a clue how to play being that they would call anything and go all in and just make ridiculous calls, it was annoying and the game ended fairly quickly, although I did not get out quickly enough to join the next cash game that was starting. Around one am, Chris, the owner of The Brickhouse and founder of the league asked if I was in for yet another game, and I said yes, despite the fact that I had made plans to meet Lauren at 10:30 the following morning to go to immigration and get our multiple entry stamps for our passports, which I need because I am leaving for Thailand in 17 days! Anyhow, I didn't win any of the games that I played and ended up home just after 3am. Getting up the next morning sucked.

Yesterday at work I was sleepily making my way through the day when Chris sent out a group text message saying, "10 000 WON ($10) .buy in tonight at Brickhouse!!!" I immediately perked up and sent a text message to Trey seeing if he was in for it so that I would have somebody to split cab fare with (and so I wouldn't be the only one playing poker like it was an addiction). He was just as keen as I was! This meant I had to text Lauren and bail on my plans to go to the sauna, as is normal Wednesday night tradition, tho I did promise to make it up to her by cooking her dinner tongiht. We even got David, my manager, out for it as well. It ended up just being the three of us and the two owners of the Brickhouse but it made for a good time, despite the fact that I didn't win the first, the second or the third game. I think I made it home just before 3, only this morning I had to be up at 8 to make it to my tutor.

So if I don't seem to be posting much lately or seem to have fallen off the face of the earth there is a good chance you can find me at The Brickhouse playing poker, possibly losing all my money and making it so that I need to stay in Korea for a second year...I might need an intervention ;)