From: "Fern Chamberlain" Subject: [ESCARGOT] after the trip report.... Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 12:27:25 -0800 Escargot.... even the family members r00l Saturday afternoon: Things winding down. Jumping into a soft 6/12 HE waiting for a seat in the 10/20. Seat opens, I tell Barbara G and Steve N that I'd rather sit with the yokels in the 6/12, softer game.... and anyway.... the jackpot is 45K. Barbara, in her usual colorful fashion, tells me that I don't have a chance in hell and waves me on.... and, practically in unison, they admonish me for paying the high jackpot rake.... I proceed to loose. Go on to enjoy some more Baby (yeah, right) Pot Limit w/ the fellas... Later, while in the banquet, getting tired, I decide I've had my fill of poker for the weekend... well, not really my fill... but hey, it's Saturday night, and my kids are just going to sleep and I still like my husband.... so....time to go.... duck out the back door. Sunday: Get a call from my dad... He arrived at the Bike Saturday night, looked around for me, knowing that I was playing some early tournament. He hears that there is some "Private Party called Escargot" going on. He can't find me and figures, correctly so, that he already missed me. He proceeds to sit for several hrs in the 8/16. Numerous hands prove frustrating, as all seem to come in 2nd best..... ....Even 4-of-a-kind..... Yep, he gets four 4s picked off by a str8 flush and hits the big end. The way I look at it. If I hadn't left.... I would've seen him and started to talk for awhile... and all the exact timings of how his hands were thrown in the muck would have changed. Subsequently, he wouldn't have hit a 22 thousand dollar jackpot....;)