Terror Alert -- Poker report incoming!

No one brought snacks, not counting the requisite root beer from the Admiral.
This was to be a serious night of poker.

Spike, the night's big winner ($8.55!) laughed maniacally. TW expressed awe at PG's run of "miracle hands" -- a tricky full house in straight five-card draw game and a surprising flush. The Admiral used new bluffing strategies and refined his poker face, taking $2.10 by evening's tally. And JD conferred out of the room with TW, trying to devise a Super Full House hand. JD also raised the bet during the anarchy round. Given that he usually folds, this was a first of some proportion.

Two new games were introduced. One, Between the Sheets, put scowls on everyone's face, but the pot became extremely large, especially when TW drew a card that matched one of the showing cards and had to double the pot. Because that amount was more than anyone could count, and because all the players are good Christians, it was decided to limit the indebtedness to $2, but TW never recovered from the blow.

The evening had more $2 bets to come. The stakes ran high all night. But, in the end, because the good Christian players let Spike win and laugh maniacally, all players ended up in the black, which is a miracle no one knows how to resolve.

The other new game was called Best Flush and has nothing to do with the toilet adjoining the playing table, although the anarchy round was dealt with The Admiral inspecting that same toilet. He did not object to being out of the room as cards were dealt, because after all, Jake, it's Anarchy.

Anarchy was a topic of discussion. Mulch is so five minutes ago. The Catholic Worker House Anarchists can be heard in several radio interviews, links to which are listed here:

http://www.will.uiuc.edu/willmp3/ktf060806.mp3

http://will.uiuc.edu/am/ktf/default.htm

http://pgregoryspringer.com/8am/wrfu/wrfu.html

Ultimately, TW folded during the anarchy round. And he won, regardless.

In the choice between going to church, attending family reunions, visiting gravestones, or playing poker on Wood Street on Thursday nights, there is little doubt where all righteous believers do belong.

PG