Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.
The kids arrived home safe and sound yesterday afternoon. They had very exciting stories to tell about their train ride from Illinois. My mom however looked about like she had just spent 18 hours on a train with 2 small kids. At any rate, it is nice to have the kids home. This morning we all piled in the van and headed to Panera before meeting a realtor at a house that we are going to lease starting at the end of this month. Oh, I forgot to mention that we are staying in Texas. There was a slight chance that we were going to move back to Indiana. In fact, while we were up there on vacation we did look around at apartments just in case we ended up back there. We should be able to move into this house toward the end of this month. I am sure I will have tales to tell about the move.
Last night we had our 2nd poker night with our ABF (Sunday School) class. After the first poker night, a fellow participant went out and bought a really cool poker chip set and he has been eager to get to use it. These chips are the real deal. I was surprised how heavy they were. He told me they were made partially out of metal (hence the weight). They ordered Hungry Howie's pizza and everyone brought chips, pop and desert. The get together started at 6:30 (ish) and poker did not actually start until closer to 8. In all, there were 9 poker players (including 6 adults and a 12, 9 and 7 year old). We passed out the chips, went over the rules and then dealt the cards. I knew I was in trouble as I had a good (but not great) hand right off the bat. My 2 pair was covered though by the 12 year old's straight. She played in our first poker night and was the first one out of chips. I could tell she had spent some time honing her skills since last time (of course getting a straight on the first hand helped too). I folded a few hands and then thought I had a good hand again only to be disappointed but the river or the turn. I played conservatively for a while and by the 10th hand or so I was needing to make a move. I bet a ton on an Ace-Jack and hoped for the best. I was pot committed and had 2 of the kids bidding me up so I went all in. I got lucky with a 10 on the last card giving me a straight or else I would have been done. That tripled my chip count and then I was good to go for a while. One by one everyone dropped out until it was just me and the guy who owned the chips. We each had about the same number of chips but he was slightly higher when I went all in and he called. I won that hand which crippled him. With the ante and blinds raised pretty high, he was able to crawl back in. By 10 PM or so though I decided to go all in with a 10-8 and he called with a 7-6. The flop had a 6 but also a 10 so I was better. The next 2 cards didn't help either of us so I took the pile...
We joined the others in the other room and talked until about 11. The daughter was already asleep and the son was looking a little haggard so we headed home. We all agreed we needed to do this again soon so I will have to defend my title the next time.
Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.
Jon
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