Neil's Home Game

Had a great time playing in my cousin Neil’s home game last night. I haven’t played in one in over 6 months so last night was a treat. It was loud and crazy at times. The suck outs came like water flowing from a stream after a big storm! The shit that goes on in this game makes Online Poker seem much saner. All in A-10 of hearts vs. K-J of hearts on a 2 heart board, Jack of clubs on the river for the sick beat. Of course the normal all in pre A-Q vs. A-K, queen on the river for the suck out/bounty, etc. Hands like this happen all too often in this game but as they say, “That’s Poker”. So the first game was a horror show for me, getting knocked out first out of 11 players. The normal set up hands, running Jacks into Queens for half my stack on a non-scary board. Than flopping top pair and a flush draw vs. Kings to get knocked out, normal stuff. In the second SNG I was on the winning side of 3 key coolers to get heads up with my cousin Ant. He had a huge stack by playing chip bully from when we were 5 handed until heads up. We made a deal and played it out for the 2 bounties left in the pool. He had a 7-1 chip lead so I needed a double up badly, didn’t happen so he took down the bounties. Well played Ant., we will meet again heads up! Shout out to Neil for hosting another fun night of Poker. Thanks for reading and good luck at the tables. Tony