Thursday night poker is back !

Thursday night poker will be back on a limited basis. Please visit http://hambonesmancave.blogspot.com/ for upcomig dates.

Drinking Decks - The Ultimate Drinking Cards

If you like to catch a buzz and you like to do it playing cards then a set of King’s Cup cards from DrinkingDecks.com is your ticket. I am going to assume that everyone reading is familiar with the drinking game Kings, if not you can check out the rules here, but if you aren’t familiar what the fuck have you been doing?

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My Poker Room Needs Help

Poker is Fun by Prahlad Friedman

Update

Due to the cancellation of poker, the new cards have been returned,

Mancave make big investment

As the mancave wants to maintain being a first class operation it has made the major investment in new cards. But to pay for this they will no longer be serving Killians red, but will be switching back to MGD.

Jeff Will be Belly up on Thursday

An unnamed official from Hambone's mancave has reported that there will be a record turnout for this thursdays game. Apperently underbelly's recent remarks has stirred up interest in this weekends game. This game is getting so much attention that it is even gettin poker wanna be Mike Kelley out of retirement. When asked why he is coming out out of retirement Mike Kelley was Quoted as saying "I just want a piece of that whinny B*st*rd". Underbelly(pictured) could not be reached for a quote.

The Man against Jeff saga continues!

The poker freight train known as Jeff Kelley has been building up steam for the last four weeks. The whole poker world was waiting this Thursday’s game as the week the first place finally comes to him. It is not to be.

Knowing of the force he has become, all the other players in the game have made it clear that they refuse to play. The hopes, as one unidentified player said, “By taking as week off, I am hoping Jeff cools off.” And another said, “Scared? You’re damn right I’m scared!”

So the owner of Hambone’s Man Cave cancelled the game, using the lack of players as an excuse.

“This is all about the Man not wanting someone like me, from the civilized world, to win.” Jeff said as his news conference, “Those Harvard people stick together. They are afraid of us from the east taking over the poker world!”

Oh Poker Gods, why do thou mock me?

So I was struggling all gave with mediocre cards. I was bluffed out of a few pots by Hambone. Finally I end up all in with Kelly. We have about the same stacks. I get a straight! Great. Nope. Four hearts on the board after the river! Kelly has a heart and I don't!

Somewhere up in the clouds, a finger points down at me with a grins! Hey you up there, I hope your enjoying my misery.

Jeff B makes leader board

POKER QUOTE

“We got robbed in poker games lots of times”
Doyle Brunson

Justice in the Universe

I thought I'd discuss a few hands from last Thursday. Now, this is not sour grapes, but I finished 3rd BY SUCK OUTS!

Kelly, the eventual winner, catches a jack on the river with his tournament life on the line, to get a high 2 pair than mine. Nice catch!

Hambone goes all in with King-8 and I call with big slick. Again, like Kelly, I've got him covered. Four of the five cards on the board are: 10, Jack, Queen and Ace! A freakin' spilt pot! Nice.

So I finish out of the money! And if I hit these guys with a baseball bat, I'd be the one to go to jail! Tell me where the justice in the universe is?

BTW, Congrats to Karen for wining 2 weeks ago and Kelly for yesterday.

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Kelly Beats 5 Others

In the September 18th Texas Hold'em "Did I see Schmidt here?" poker tournament, Kelly beat a superb field that included, Jeff, Dawn, Hambone, Schmidt, and Karen (who took second).

Video Highlight- Kelly outwits everyone

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Changes Coming . . . Maybe?

In the interest of bringing more people into the game, relieving some of the driving by the Gurnee people and getting more sleep, we were thinking about changes to weekly poker. While we will talk about it more on Thursday, I'd thought I'd give everyone a heads up.

1. Poker will be late Sunday Afternoons.
2. The game will go on a 12 week cycle.
3. The most weeks you can be in for the Championship is 8 (this give 4 weeks you can miss without being penalized)
4. You get one flex week. This means if you pay you $5 and you suck that week, you can have that week not count against your standings. The $5 still goes into the pot, however.
5. The game will rotate to different homes. If you'd like to have a game at your house once in a while, that's cool! the plan right now is to rotate between Harvard and Gurnee, but that can change.

These are only idea's. We will talk on Thursday. let us know what you think.

Thursday Highlight

Justin Takes First!

Justin "I'm not Justine" Takes first place in the September 11th, "Where are my cards?" Texas Hold'em game. Congrats to Justin! It is rumored that the winner actually showed emotion during the game but without some sort of proof, it is considered just a myth, sort of like bigfoot.

Congrats to Hambone!

Brian "Hambone" aka "Buzzsaw" Kelley won the first tournament in the new Texas Hold 'em Thursday Night "Karen never sucks out" Poker League! Brian (pictured right) celebrates his victory!

The current prize pool in now $35.00

Food Anyone?

Anyone interested in having pizza ready for them can email me at bk60070@yahoo.com and I will have little caesers pizza here for you at 7. There will always be ice cold beer on tap and usually some type of soda. I believe pizzas to be $5 each.

Please have any orders in by Wednesday night.

Prize Pool

We were thinking of doing a prize pool in which everyone who plays regularly pays a few dollars extra to build up for a grand jackpot. A lot of details have yet to be decided, so let you voice be heard! Vote on the right of this page.

First Thursday Poker Night

Last week was the first of Hambone's weekly poker. With 9 people participating, the order of fi nish went like this.

9th - Brian s.
8th - Joe
7th - Kelly
6th - Dawn
5th - Jeff B
4th - Hambone
3rd - Jeff K.
2nd - Justine
Winner - Melissa

Congrats to Melissa for a game well played