Friday, I land and meet up with Jay and his new lady friend Lee (i probably spelled that wrong). It was great to see him again, I miss my friends from Arizona. Evidently his lady friend hasn't seen the flame shoes yet, poor her. We head to Black Angus.
Black Angus, on Alma School and Southern, is a mise. We meet up with Steve, D.Voigt, and daCanuck. I had the 16oz steak and a Cape Cod. Everyone else ordered foo-foo drinks as well. Brad's drink was some sort of pink-orangish foam looking thing. We reminisced about call boxes, the whale, Jay's flame shoes, the mirror bathroom, the fact that Lee hasn't seen ANY good movies, etc. Catching up is fun. Boobies are up next, so we head to Jay's new pad so I can get a nice clean shirt on.
His house is very nice for a starter home and the hard wood floors that they installed look really nice. Voigt's new TV is on a coffee table because it won't fit in the entertainment center. He won it on a radio show. We punch up WoW and converse about the Taran Icebreaker v. Blanchard's Stout debate and then finally head out to the strip club.
Bliss was the place on 19th Ave and Deer Valley. Only topless but the couch dances were amazing. Probably one of the few times I enjoy being a big guy, the girls like to use you as a pommel horse. It was pretty damn good. Get back to Ray's about 230am or so.
Ray (in my links to the right) is a good friend of mine and used to own Gamer's Edge. He has recently vacated the industry, which is unfortunate, but he seems really happy. He has too cute kids and his wife Kelly has always been good to all of us. His new house is a mansion. Well, maybe it's normal for Arizona, I'm just used to the small places in Va. Get up that day, played House on Haunted Hill a couple times, it was pretty fun. Watched Police Story w/jackie chan. That was a pretty good movie too, even with me not being a fan of subtitled japanese movies.
The Girardathon starts at about 645 and Ray's got some nifty tourney software to keep track of the blinds. It's Me, Jay, Kelly, Steve, Voigt, Adam, Clark, Brad, Bits, and Ray. Not a bad turnout, money pays to top three. Second hand, I get KQ suited, raise a bit and get a few callers, flop comes suit, suit, blank. I stay in, bets around, turn comes blank and river comes blank. Stupid flush chaser. Next hand I get rockets. I raise it up about 1/6 of my stack or so. I get a raise from Kelly and Brad is a caller and then Jay contemplates calling. He does and I reraise all in. Kelly folds and Brad/Jay call. Brad flips over Ace/Junk and Jay flips over K/Q off. K comes on the flop and a Queen on the river. Greeeat. I have a small stack left (I took down the first hand). That was crap, like three hands later I do it to Clark though with his rockets. Bits ends up winning with daWard taking 2nd. We head to Casino AZ.
I sit at 3/6 and have about doubled my stack when some pretty boy, business man, jackass sits down at the opposite end of the table. He's drunk and loud. Second hand he gets dealt, I get KK. I raise, he calls and another guy calls. Flop comes 3/3/J. I bet, 2nd guy calls, maniac calls. Turn comes A. I check, second guy bets, maniac calls, I call. River comes blank. I check, 2nd guy bets, maniac raises, I call, 2nd guy calls. I flip over KK, 2nd guy flips over A/4 (WHY THE F he stayed in post flop is beyond me). Maniac flips over 3/8 off. ... I thought I was going to have a heart attack right there. That pretty much set the tone for the night and I caught crap for the next couple hours and left down $100 or so.
Brad and I head back to Ray's to crash. We get there about 5am and crash. Get up at around 9am and I get to the airport for my noon flight. I get the miser deal and bump flights from the 1215 through pittsburgh to the 115 through philly and get in just an hour and a half later. For this I get a free round trip ticket and they upgraded me to first class for the trip to philly.
Philly's airport is crap. I had to take a bus to the F terminal, got my gate changed like twice. They were late boarding us and then we sat on the tarmac for a half hour because we were 15 in line to take off.
I hit my bed at 2am. It's tough keeping my eyes open today. Tomorrow I leave for Gencon.
It was great seeing everyone in AZ and I hope to see them again soon.
NOTE - if you are Joe Alread, get a hold of me, I have the newest edition of CardPlayer if you want to read it.
3 comments:
It was good seeing you too.
It is spelled Leigh :)
You just got back from Arizona this morning? I just got back from Arizona this morning!
whoa...jason. were you at the gilbert tourney? I sooo should have went to that.
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