From: "MrBookworm"
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 21:23:17 -0700
Subject: [BARGE] BARGE 2012 - Abbreviated Trip Report - MrBookworm

Funniest thing I saw:
A bunch of people in town for the deaf poker league had come over to =
Binion's for the Thu night Binon's tourney. We were playing 1-2 NL in =
the cash game room after busting out of the limit 6 game tourney and a =
couple of the deaf guys had joined the table. The lineup as best I can =
remember was Un in the 1 seat, deaf Jose in the 2 seat, Redbird in the 3 =
seat, MrBookworm (me) in the 4 seat, deaf Brian in the 5 seat, Doug =
Maher (?) in the 6 seat, BronzeDoger in the 8 seat. The two deaf players =
were constantly signing to each other. Redbird knows some basic sign =
language and did her best to communicate with the two deaf players, =
making fast friends with them. Un may know sign language, but as =
everyone knows chooses to have a constant verbal conversation with =
anyone and everyone at the table, including himself if nobody is =
listening.

About 30 minutes in, deaf Brian looks at Un, grunts a few times to get =
our attention and proceeds to show the universal sign for "yap yap yap =
yap yap" while pointing at Un*. The table erupts in laughter since most =
of us know that Un can not be quiet if he is conscious. After we all =
calm down a bit, deaf Brian then proceeds to stick his tongue out and =
pretends to cut it off with scissors made by his index and middle =
fingers. Un, you know you talk too much when the deaf guy tells you to =
shut the fuck up.

*The sign used for "yap yap yap yap yap" is to pretend you have your =
hand in a sock puppet and open and close the sock puppet's mouth =
rapidly.


Funniest thing I heard:
I withheld the name of this BARGEr and will leave it up to him to =
identify himself if he so chooses.

On Saturday during the NLHE picture break, I asked a fellow BARGEr how =
he was doing. "Great, I'm drunk as hell", came the reply. Nothing =
unusual about this, so I inquired "oh, did you stay up all night =
drinking?"

He replied, "I was planning on staying up all night, but had to change =
plans when I woke up on the toilet at Main Street Station. I was =
obviously way more tired than I realized, so I went back to my room and =
got 45 minutes of sleep." While this answered my initial inquiry, I just =
had to know, "were your pants up or down?" The answer, "down."

My apologies to Skippy for not finding out if the deuce was still in the =
bowl or not when he woke up, sometimes you just don=E2=80=99t remember =
to ask all the right questions.

Dean "MrBookworm" Kerl
A++ G++ PKR+ PEG* B+ TB ADB M+++