So I ended up playing the $30 BLUFF Invitational office tournament and played a pretty standard tournament. I didn’t cash. No bad beats or huge suckouts, just normal poker where big hands didn’t go my way at the key times.

I skipped the Friday night poker to go instead to the 2p2 Atlanta meetup. I met ‘Chair, d10, Fast Food Knight (a girl? wtf?), GuyIncognito, mmb, jtown1010, Azizal, rutang, AEKDBet, Anacardo, ligastar and probably others that I’m forgetting. It was an interesting group of people that would probably (make that certainly) never get together if it wasn’t for 2p2. So it was unique in that manner.

Then I woke up today and headed up I-75 to “WhirlyBall” which is a game of bumper cars where you’re basically playing lacrosse with a wiffle ball. Pretty random combo and despite what you might think, it actually isn’t that much fun. The only fun part was getting up a lot of speed and hitting someone pretty hard (it wasn’t hard enough to hurt someone, but it did kinda jolt you when someone hit you with “full” speed). Also, the place we did it at was kind of a dump, so that didn’t help matters.

After WhirlyBall, I drove up to the house of one of the other owners of BLUFF, where we were going to play a bunch of poker and whatnot. He lives in an Atlanta suburb that’s a decent amount outside the 285 perimeter. It’s a very nice area with tons of nice houses, kids running around, nice cars, etc. The classical suburban neighborhood with UGA and USA flags hanging off most houses. Then when I pull up to his house, I see this:

Note that it isn’t actually something he drives regularly. His G sedan is poking into the picture. And his wife has a nice truck. But this is his “mudder” which he apparently doesn’t use much anymore and is probably going to sell. I just thought it was funny looking to have this quasi-monster truck with messed up paint and rust sitting in the middle of this neighborhood. Not only that, it has a bad transmission leak. His wife isn’t too happy about it as far as I know.

Anyway, we played some low limit cash games for a little while. I won a bunch, but mainly because I kept getting nice set up hands. Things like KK against JJ on a low board make it easy to win. Then they were running another tournament, so I decided to leave. I was planning on going out to Athens for Part Two, but I felt pretty tired and just wasn’t up to the task of staying up and drinking for most of the night, especially after a 2 hour drive out there. So I went back to my neighborhood and watched the Stanford-USC and Florida-LSU games with a bunch of people on a huge screen (my friend has a projector with a 100″ screen and a 50″ XRD right below it). Those were great games and I’m pretty happy with my decision to skip the party. It would have been fun most of the time, just not tonight for me.

Edit:

In closing, gambler2k4′s comments on Team Domeski

(2:24:56 AM) gambler2k4: team domeski makes me sick…… they get so used.
(2:25:10 AM) gambler2k4: they all look like nerds
(2:25:20 AM) gambler2k4: people come to their parties cause they got money!
(2:25:32 AM) GIFAFI: you don’t look like a nerd at all
(2:25:43 AM) GIFAFI: so i feel ya there
(2:25:49 AM) gambler2k4: lol well when i take my glasses off i don’t
(2:25:58 AM) GIFAFI: i’m sure

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