Sunday at thor’s house

Posted by Nat
May 21, 2006

After going to sleep around 3 AM, I woke up around 9:00 AMish and walked over from the guest house to the main house (no wireless internet in the guest house). I just did some random tasks online while I waited for everyone to wake up. Around 11:30, people started to drift into the living room and kitchen. In the 2+ hours while I was at the kitchen table by myself, I saw the weather go from rainy to sunny to cloudy to foggy to thunderstorming. And that cycle happening multiple times. The weather here is literally the fastest changing weather I’ve ever seen.

In the early afternoon, thor, jucifer and I were sitting around in the living room talking about something that I don’t remember when all of a sudden… it started hailing. Yes… hailing. In late May a few hours from New York City. I know we’re in the mountains, but still… it’s hail. I got some pictures of it:

thor’s deck with the hail on it
jucifer testing out the hail just prior to getting his ass kicked
jucifer getting his ass kicked by some Catskill hail

Despite the weather, the area around thor’s house is very nice. I got a couple shots of the view:

Bridge to the guest house, which is where jucifer and I are staying along with MrSmokey1’s friend — his name is Zach
The garage/guest house
The view off the main house’s porch, looking at thor’s pond

As you might expect, there was a lot of online pokering going on. Most people were playing all the major sunday tournaments, but there wasn’t a lot of success. I think the biggest cash was Bushman’s $5K-ish score for 3rd in the Paradise Playa $40K guaranteed (I think) $100+r. thor also got to the top two tables of the Stars 109r, but he never really had many chips in it. Bushman had a big chiplead in it with 30-some people to go, but he ran into some bigger hands than his big hands and he went out like a man in 28th spot with 27 spots paying. It really looked like he was going to win it for a little while though.

I got a few pictures of the online pokering that was going on downstairs:

This is a pretty dark shot, but Bushman is all the way on the left (not really visible), jucifer is in the background, MrSmokey1 is playing on the dual monitor setup and thorladen is sitting to his left
thorladen’s laptop and MrSmokey1 playing online hearts. thorladen was playing upstairs for most of the afternoon because Dise and Stars kept putting people from the house together. Once MrSmokey1 busted, thorladen brought his laptop downstars.
Another view from behind the setup

I’ll write about the post-Sunday tournaments part of Sunday later. I want to go play some wiffleball now.

Related posts:

  1. Sunday post-tournament report
  2. Bunch of pictures, commentary to come later…
  3. Sunday tournaments
  4. Quick WPT Bahamas Post
  5. The Final Table
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