Texas hold'em -- June 25, 2005

Ugh, not pretty. I wanted to hit a party that Maia was throwing for Fred Spademan's birthday, so I changed our usual format. Started at 50/100 blinds with no limit right away. We also started at 8pm instead of 8:30. I intended play to be faster and to wrap the game up earlier, but the guys ended up feeling like they got shorted play time and that it wasn't worth the $20 buy-in.

6 players tonight. Clockwise around the table starting with 1st deal: Ken, Frenchy, Clint, Jonathan, myself and Tom. Craig was supposed to be there, but his car died.

No white, red or blue chips in play and starting chips per player at $9500.

Action escalated early, as you would expect. Frenchy busted out, then I got busted out by Ken with an ace-high hand, then Jonathan and Ken went out. Down to Clint and Tom in heads-up play. They went back and forth until blinds were up to 4000/8000, I think. It looked like Tom was going to pull it off for a while there, but Clint came back with several strong hands and cleaned him out.

Clint got the whole kitty, making this his first win since he joined the game in February. Then we took off to Maia's party, where Jonathan and Ken also eventually ended up.