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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that dude loves peanut m+m's huh?