2014.09

No video this month, just wasn't feeling it.

So there it was - 100 in Burbank outside and inside the oven that is known as The Garage Around Back it was positively nasty.

120 anyone?

So once again it was going to be a poker al fresco kind of night.  No doubt it would be delightful.

Except - it wasn't.

Rather than a pleasantly cool and dry California evening, we instead had an utterly hot and inexplicably sticky Georgia kind of night.   Blech.   Worst of all, the root-beer float Chips Ahoy cookies were grosser than gross.  Apologies for that blunder.

But while the weather was yucky - the poker was sexy.  We had two bust outs before the break, Barb was first - she had her aces cracked and kicked the gate open on her way out barely half an hour into the tournament.

Didn't even get a picture of her!

At one point we had 20 players lined up, but we ended up with 15.   Some flakes up in this beatch!
Still, it was a raucous enough time, with plenty of exciting hands.  Including at least four or five more times that aces were NO GOOD.

We had one of our earliest final table draws ever - 930!  Only two and a half hours in.

It was another two and a half hours though before we reached the bubble, and 15 minutes after that when it finally broke, with the estimable Colin H. taking the hit and taking home nothing but a smile after five hours of hard work.

Eric T. was the first to bust out after that - taking home double his buy in, plus another $20 in bounties for fourth place.

Tony G. saw his stack go up and down and up and down before finally busting in third place for $100 and an odd bounty or two.

And then it was heads up - two playas from the west side (well at least from Garner's game which is well over yonder) Jerry and Garner.   The final battle was fairly short and sweet as Garner had found himself behind a mountain of chips.  Jerry was gracious in defeat and took home $160 plus more in bounties.  Garner K. snagged $260 plus bounty action plus the best thing of all, the trophy!

Rock on!

Well done sir, well deserved and long overdue.

Thanks to everyone for coming out and making it such a great evening, despite the oppressive heat.   Our next monthly is guaranteed to be much cooler as it isn't until the end of October - Saturday the 25th.  Hope you can make it.  Until then, peace and we out!