SHOWDOWN #5

The showdown heade back to the Valley Green development once again as the home of Chris Schutter hosted. Chris put out a fine spread highlighted by some fine jumbalaya. As preparations were being made for this showdown, some of the wives of the showdown players felt that a poker game in the middle of a major snowstorm was foolish. AAAAAGGHH I say. Deal the cards.
Saturday nights play was all about the mighty Casey. Casey stepped up to the plate and most certainley did not strike out. Pulling off the rare double dip, Casey swept the nights action and took home $250 and 21 points. Both SNS records. In the first tourney Rich L took out Leroy and thus winning the bonus point. Following Ron at the kiddie table was Doc, Chris and Eric. Eric was subbing for the absent Kevin. The early action at table #1 was furious as 3 of the top point and money winners were seated at the table. Casey, Shane and Rich L were all at table #1 and the play was hot. Rich couldn't pass up an opportunity to knock out Shane early calling his all-in. Shane nervously sweated out the flop, turn and River to hang on. " I had to take a shot at knocking you out" muttered Rich as Shane raked in his chips. Over at Table #2, Wayne was building quite the stack as he was desperately trying to cash in on the big boy table for the first time. Once Jeff busted out on the bubble the money was on. Casey, Wayne and the 2 Rich's remained. Rich L busted out first as he went all in with A - 10 to Casey's A - 4. Casey got a 3 on the river to make a straight to bust Rich and we were down to 3. Wayne was desperatley trying to take down a big pot from Casey but just couldn't get any action with his big hands. Ultimately Rich K. was done and we were down to a chip count. Casey prevailed and Wayne collected $50 for his 2nd place.
Tourney 2 saw 2 re-buys from table 2 to boost the pot. Busting out first was Tom followed by Doc, Randy, Rich K and Shane. What? Shane at the Kiddie table? Don't say it. Yes. That was the great Shane, Last years champion mired in a 3 week slump finding himself sitting at the jiddie table for the first time. I was watching him play a little at the kidde table and he seemed as interested as 5 year old in a Trigonometry class. Over at the 7 handed money table, Eric had quite a stack follwed by Casey. Rich L. was low stack and went all in on the first hand once again getting rivered by Eric. Ron shortly followed and then Chris the host busted out going home ( upstairs ) empty handed for the night. Jeff collected the $30 4th place and Wayne collected $40 in what was most definately his best night of the season. The monkey is off the back. Casey and Eric battle it out with the Mighty Casey prevailing for he win and double dip. Next showdown Casey will be going for the rare triple play. A feat only achieved by poker legend Shane Reamer. The heat will be on. I hear all the showdown members are privately putting up a secret bounty on Casey to knock him out.
Casey took over as points and cash leader as the stumbling Shane drops into 2nd. Whats wrong with Shane talk has been heard around the water coolers in the office of the SNS.
The next showdown is getting pushed back to Sunday Feb 8th. Time is tbd although I think a later afternoon like 3pm would be better than 6pm. I will post a time after talking to a few players.
Finally all this nonsense from Wayne Saturday night about "Eli" being 2 games from the Hall of Fame needs to come to a halt. I look at Eli as being one David Tyree FLUKE catch away from being just another shlub QB who's team took him to the playoffs. Eli showed what he is against the Eagles. A vastly overrated, mistake prone mediocre QB. Give me Ben, Brees, Rivers, Manning ( the real one ) Brady, Palmer, Warner, McNabb, Rodgers, Pennington, Cutler and real soon Flacco and Ryan before that chump. Giants should be drafting a QB next year.