Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 22:02:07 -0400
From: scottro
Subject: [BARGE] Things I learned at BARGE 2007

The things I learned at BARGE 2007

Even after 8 years of going to BARGE, Peg still gives me grief.

Finding the perfect traveling companion is the absolute nuts.  Thanks 
Oscar, for being my all-time best BARGE roomie, travel mate and amazing 
friend.  It wouldn't be the same without you.

Poor man's upgrade: The exit row!  Leg room, baby.  Leg room.

Main Street Station loves to give me free stuff, even if I only play 
quarter VP, and even though it's only once a year.  They are my bitch.

At least one night early in my 9-night stay at BARGE, I will have a 
horrible headache.  I must prepare for this next year.

Getting very sick at BARGE sucks complete ass.

Ron, the Virgin Queen and a good friend is a complete nutbar who is 
obsessed with the nuances (read that as sounds, smells and fluids) of 
all bodily functions.

Russ would make an excellent cabbie; he's hell on wheels.  He did cart 
us around all week though.  Thanks Russ!

A rental car is really not necessary when you have friends who will tote 
you around.

New term I coined: Nit balm (Russ loves hand sanitizer)

I don't enjoy Stud/8 tournaments and I am not playing them ever again.

Russ can't fold Kings (the scottro stacks the Messenger of Doom after 
flopping a set) for a $975 pot.

I only had one good hand to remember from BARGE.  The rest sucked my ass.

No matter how much you've been missing flops, getting rivered and losing 
money, it can continue indefinitely.  Really.  It doesn't always get 
better.  In fact, it often gets worse.  My last day of playing poker at 
BARGE (Sunday) was the worst.

BARGE can be pretty cheap . . . unless you lose ass-tons of money 
playing poker.  Sigh.

Sushi is still the best food on the planet.  Even rolls can be good 
(thanks Asya!)

Good company is even better than good food! (Thanks Russ S., Russ F., 
Oscar, Mick, Ron, and everyone else I ate with)

Ethiopian food is rather good, but credit card roulette sucks my ass.

I like girls.  A lot!  (I already knew this, but shit, Vegas is just the 
stone cold nuts for girl watching.  Especially redheads).

The TOC is a tournament I will play every year and be thankful that I 
make it past the first break because I'm not a freaking card rack like 
some BARGErs I know (chic, ice, etc.).  I will never cash in this event 
because, like Un, I am not a lucky player and a powerful winning force 
refuses to come near me.

I hate older women with southern accents who say nothing at the poker 
table but, "I call.  I call.  I call."

I still love Binions, even with the changes.  It will always be the home 
of BARGE for me.

$2/hr. adds up.  It doesn't make up for major spewing, though.

The Steakhouse at Binions is the nuts.

Peter, Chuck and Mick are the best organizers on the planet.  It's gonna 
be hard to top this year, though.

Prock is mean with a digital camera.  He shoots faster than Wild Bill.

People from Colorado are the nuts.  All you guys (Howler and HowlerWife, 
Sam_6, Bob Jones, Hurricane and company, and anyone who I'm leaving out) 
rock!

Wil raises with A5o in middle position after not playing a hand for an 
hour.  I picked the wrong hand for implied tilt odds.

Dan Goldman sucks at keeping track of a single pink hat (but he's great 
at everything else, so he is forgiven).

Nut_Z remains one of the coolest people I've ever met.  I'm glad it was 
you who busted me, Frank.  Nice job this year.

LenG looks great in his new tri-focals, but he looks funny adjusting to 
them.

Rick M really does know how to play poker.

Chic is the most amazing luckbox ever to live.

It really is best to forget about work when on vacation.  It only took 
me 5 days.  Then on the 7th day, I started worrying about work stuff again.

Gavin did a fantastic job as speaker and hot girlfriend finder.  WTG Gavin.

Carson Street Cafe has pretty damn good pancakes.  Especially at 2 A.M.

Nolan, although an excellent writer and Media director, should never do 
another roast again.  Ever.  Yikes!

I miss Shelley even more than I thought I would.  The calcutta was great 
(Thanks Bill, Un and Heldar), but it will never be the same.  Rest in 
peace, my friend.

Ten days in Vegas for BARGE is just too many.  It took me 8 years to 
figure this out.  Next year, it's just Tuesday thru Sunday for me.

Ten days away from my wife and son is WAY too much.

I will probably never eat a deep-fried Twinkie.  And that's OK.

A lucky table draw does not equal destiny.  Dammit.  Table 7, seat 7 
sucks too.

Bob-O is gonna make $10k.  Go for it, Bob!

Everyone reading this is the nuts.  I know everyone says this, but it is 
so true.  BARGE is about the people, and I know of no finer people in 
the world than you crazy motherfuckers.  Can't wait to do it again next 
year!

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