Thursday, February 12th Action

Last night at Lederach, we experienced a relatively mellow 10 handed game despite the fact that we had our first ever cash in for $2500. New action player Dave Chick cashed in for the $2500, or 25 times a normal re-buy for Chommie, and the rest of the table was grateful for it but more on that below. The overall message of the night is that the action isn’t quite as loose or crazy without Chommie or Drunk, Action, Racist Dan (aka Gentile Chommie) as even with ten players, we only had one felting all night which was 9 less than Chommie has managed to do all by himself in the prior two sessions. Anyway, onto the details:

Once again the big winner of the night was world renowned “luckbox” Mr. Chad whose astonishing winning streak continued with a +$589 effort. So, that’s 5 wins out of 5 sessions this year for Mr. Chad for $3100, six straight going back to last year and 12 positive sessions in his last 14. Everything is going right for Mr. Chad and he had the Marriott Residence Inn Call of the Night with a middle pocket pair call for $150 on the river against an intimidating board versus Msgr. Hauer. In addition, Mr. Chad brought back into play the world’s only brown Phillies windbreaker and also was the subject, again, of the tirade of the night courtesy of host Sir Lawrence after a LOOSE gut shot straight call in a small pot hit and got paid. When you’re running good, you sit back in your off color Phillies jacket, let your hair flow wild, make loose calls, hit and get paid. That’s Mr. Chad’s mantra and it’s working for him. God bless him.

The other exciting story of the night was the long awaited return of G Ron, his first sighting in the basement since last July. The allure of 10 men in a closely confined area and the opportunity to sit closely next to TJ, still single despite looking so good in his Tennessee paraphernalia, was just the medicine G Ron needed to get over the heartbreak of finding out about the recent engagement of Mr. Cooper. Yuck. But we digress yet again. As for his play itself, G Ron continued where he left off in 2008 winning a majority of the pots he entered including getting paid nicely on a nut flush turned against Msgr. Hauer. G Ron didn’t leave with any phone numbers but left with over $300 in profits which should buy plenty of hair gel and too tight t-shirts favored by the people he hangs out with on nights he is not playing cards.

TJ, back from yet another hospital visit, also had a very successful return winning over $500 through a variety of big hands during the night. TJ also set a personal record by going five hours without making arrangements with anybody to pay them back for any debts in arrears. On second thought, “debts in arrears” sounds like something G Ron should have paid back.

Mr. Cooper had his third straight positive session, cashing out over $250 in profits while, once again, only playing premium hands. Mr. Cooper’s big hands of the night were his double up courtesy of the generous D. Chick, on his flopped set with pocket aces and his big turn of a full house against Sir Lawrence’s flopped king high flush. However, scrapping with Sir Lawrence wasn’t his bravest moment of the night. Instead, it was his “clock” call on ex-NFL linebacker Mr. Dana during a big hand which doesn’t bode well for the long-term health and future of everybody’s favorite balding 168 pound 34 year old Jewish weakling although we do admire his bravado.

Other winners last night include Joseph J. Crawford returning after his brief self imposed retirement yet again. Young Joseph, in a giddy mood now after recently completing his thesis evidently titled “How to overplay second pair on your first buy in” had a good night recording his first winning session of 2009. His hand of the night was flopping an Ace high straight (or a Broadway straight as us sophisticated players say) and making some cash off of Superman Chad. Poor Joey, however, is still $844 from even this year (or the equivalent of 40 lawn mowing jobs).

Kevin S. was rumored to have shown up late although our hidden poker cameras never recorded him being there and nobody can recall him playing a hand. The crack accounting team at Lederach has found $31 of losses unclaimed, however, which we will directly attribute to KS’ 3 hours of folding (if he was, in fact, present).

Mr. Dana made a return to the scene for the first time in weeks and let everyone know he was present by thinking about a huge TJ river bet for over 10 minutes before finally FOLDING although in Dana’s defense that’s about 5 minutes longer than his beloved Orangemen took to fold in most of their riveting Big East battles this year on their way to a 3 win season. Mr. Dana was up early but struggled late although like virtually every player at the table, he was paid at one point nicely by Mr. Chick’s big stack when he turned top set against Mr. Chick’s overpair.

Sir Lawrence looked dazed and lost most of the night for some reason and we’re not sure if it was the lack of a true degenerate calling station at the table (i.e. Chommie or Drunk Dan) or Chad’s continued miraculous run that threw him off his game. The relatively passive Sir Lawrence seemed more content on waiting to trap lesser players such as Mr. Chad and Mr. Cooper and berating them when those plans fell awry rather than using his normal hyper-aggressive style to give him some momentum. Overall, approximately $170 in losses on the night for our favorite host which puts him light years behind Mr. Chad and Moke for the yearly leader totals much to his chagrin.

Msgr. Hauer, this blogger’s favorite player ever, had a miserable night and was the only one cracked, losing $500 in the process. In addition, Msgr. Hauer was nursing a cold although sitting in close proximity to arch-nemesis Sir Lawrence and potentially sickening him as well should make him feel a little better. Msgr. Hauer was ultimately cracked by D. Chick’s flopped trips but the previously described amazing call by Mr. Chad was really the lowlight of the night for Msgr. Hauer who even got into a pointless Kobe vs. LeBron argument although we’re not sure why he cares about either since they don’t play for his beloved Spurs.

Finally, last but not least was D. Chick who sat down with $2500 (really) which included a huge brick of cash which resembled something closer to a pebble by the end of the night. D. Chick played hands often and aggressively and, at times, resembled a young Drunk Dan sans the alcoholism and Attention Deficit Disorder. This was the second straight week that D. Chick found himself down more than $1,000 and rallied late night although this late rally still left D. Chick down…..$927. This blogger still dreams of the night we can get D. Chick and his brick together with Chommie and Drunk Dan, mix in a little TJ and some Kiner $33 pre-flop re-raises with 2 8 SUITED and create the Dream Team that could only be matched by the 92 USA Olympic Basketball team.

Happy President’s Day.