We had 14 players for the Super Bowl eve poker tournament. Chavo went all out clearing out his garage and turning it into a poker room. He also rented a margarita machine and players chipped in for the food and drinks. The action started out fast as we had a rebuy at table one on [...]
Chavos Tourney Recap 9/12/09
Chavo ran another tournament on Saturday night. There was a scheduling issue and Chavo had to move his game up and give everyone short notice. Because of the short notice, there was a big group of players that had already planned another tournament and could not come. Even with that, we had 16 players to [...]
Chavos Tourney Recap
Primo came in from SA and he played while I worked Friday night. He ended upo coming in 4th and winning a little money. We left Houston at around 1am and headed towards Beaumont with some money in our pockets… The tournament was set up and ready to go at 5pm and we actually got [...]
TKE House Fundraiser 3
I visited my Alma mater Sam Houston State last weekend for my fraternity annual Big Bamboo Bash Party. The party was on Friday night and had planned a poker tournament fundraiser for Saturday. The best time would be in the late afternoon but we had to reschedule around the NFL Draft that was going to [...]
Shuffle Up and Steal
Inside accounts of a recent poker room robbery in San Antonio from a friend of mine…. Alright, so last night after a business meeting, a friend and I decided to play poker. We called a guy we know who usually runs his own game. He told us he was playing but at a different location. [...]
TKE House Fundraiser
I put together a small tourney for my fraternity to help raise money for the new house. The best time to do it was the day of the fraternity’s Bid Day Party (last Sat) at around 3pm. I figured everyone would be drinking but I put the tables off to the side and tried to [...]
East Texas Poker 3
Played another Tourney at Chavos house last Saturday. This time the turnout was only 13 players which included The 4 in our car ( My roommate, His Girl, Primo from SA and myself). The game had the same structure as last time($20 for 10K and unlimited rebuys @ $20for 10K) but I upped the Add [...]
East Texas Poker 2
I made another trip out to my friend Chavos in Groves Texas on Saturday. He wanted to have another poker tournament but the party was moved to his neighbors house. So My roommate and I loaded up the poker table and headed out on Sat afternoon. We arrive and the game starts at around 7pm. [...]
Hurricane Poker
Last night I wnet to a home game near my girlfriends house. I wasn’t sure if I was going to go because there is a big Huricane headed towards Houston. Hurricane IKE is set to hit on Sat so i wasn’t even sure the guy would host a game. I called him up to make [...]
East Texas Poker
I was invited to east Texas (Groves) by a fraternity brother of mine, Chavo, for a poker tournamnet. I helped him set it up as far as blinds and chips. I also told him I would deal and play so that we could use a full size table and keep everything moving along. The structure [...]
