Also, Small Fry is the best floor ever. Three spots pop to mind:

* 4-card flop. There was a mild bit of hesitation of "which was the fourth card?" but he quickly just picked them up and reshuffled. I was a bit bummed, since the first flop hit me more safely and may have won more, but at least I still won the hand.

* Someone saying "raise" without noticing an existing raise. Nobody had yet reacted to the new raise, and he ruled it a misunderstanding of the action. This probably wouldn't fly in most casinos, but the floor in most casinos have either little clue about poker, or have been beaten down by players and management to just cover their asses. I'm glad he was able to think past that.

* An early burn and river on a double-flop game. It was fixed limit, and I was dealing, and I was thinking so badly that I wanted the middle player to call the other player's 3-bet that I forgot to call it myself after he folded, tho' I had fully intended to. This intent was perfectly clear, and in fact the rivers hurt my hands, so I was glad when he ruled the cards played in the best interest of the game. I'd have felt like a heel getting a freebie on my mistake, and didn't care at all about losing the pot.

Class act all the way!

I had a great time as well, and hope that we can do it again with less of a gap. Amber had a great time as well, and she took betting into the tabled nuts pretty well

Like a champ!

She probably couldn't even have seen my cards if she wanted to, because my hands were still sort of in the way... and I'm sure everybody noticed I tend to talk too quickly and with a mumble, so she likely didn't understand my ramblings anyway.

highlight for me was watching a full table of professional or semi-pro poker players (including one or two pro dealers) spend 5 minutes figuring out the winning low in an omaha/8 hand, complete with fishing cards out of the muck to award the pot.

meyou neglects to mention calling out the 7 after the turn, but yes, a very good hand .

game came off flawlessly, imo. Thanks so much to Small Fry. Your setup is well worth the drive if we can talk you into doing this again! Small Fry, Pfaf, and Calibus put on a great how-to-deal-poker demonstration.

I enjoyed meeting everyone immensely. very entertaining group to spend a saturday with, and a huge amount of poker knowledge in one place. definitely some players I'd rather not play against every day!



Abbreviated trip report:

people started meandering in early afternoon. Played .25/.50 nlhe 4-handed up to 8-handed as people arrived. Then added some plo as the table swelled to 9. As the last few people arrived others split off to start setting up the tournament

12 player freezeout tournament T10,000, 15-minute levels. combined tables at 9 players. I failed to note the screen names of everyone so I'll leave the winner list a mystery. It's all about having fun anyway, right?!

Bustouts got a mixed game going on the side. When the tourney ended we kept that going for another hour or two.

As the bubble boy, I don't know the specific finish, but gedanken is being modest. He placed 2nd, I believe.

no, I'm truly embarrassed that I can't credit the winner. I could give you his real name, but that's not kosher, perhaps. I'll tell you he's a very solid player and didn't win by accident, has good taste in beer, and seems like an awfully nice guy. please raise your hand, sir!.

Calibus in 3rd (anxious to get to another appointment).

Thanks for the compliments guys. It was a pleasure to host and put some faces to the names. Big thanks for the food contributions also. My apologies if it got a liitle chilly . I wasn't expecting it so didn't get the heaters set up.

I'd also like to thank Calibus and Pfap for dealing. Both are very efficient and smooth but Pfap keeps a pace that just can't be matched by us mere mortals, even when he's trying to incorporate an unfamiliar shuffle machine into his normal routine. Not sure about the other two but I find it tough to deal with cold hands so many props to them again for their smoothness.

As for the rulings I thought they were pretty basic but I appreciate the feedback. If anyone has any suggestions for improvement, dealing, set up, etc. I welcome them.

I felt it only fair in the "raise" case to not hold that player to his action due to the intial raise in place, so a definite case of gross misunderstanding of bet size required, both in amount and difference.

Before anyone freaks out about the hand being pulled from the muck the hand was tabled. The game was O8 and it was mistakenly mucked due to losing high. The player who pointed out that we had mucked the winning low would have won the low if that hand styed mucked so thanks for being honest.

Tourney results:

Cheese
Gendaken
Calibus

Congrats to them as they all played well. Heck, everyone played well.

I enjoyed playing some new games in the mixed rotation after the tourney. Would have enjoyed it a little more if I wasn't always making the 2nd best hand. And I have a better understanding of why Pfap says dealing and playing something going to suffer. I feel confident in my abilities but I wasn't even going to try to do both with some of the Omaha variations. Playing used enough brain cells.

I could probably talk the wife into letting me host this event again but due to work schedule it wouldn't be until after April 15.

Gedanken - thanks for the cut card.

:Nervously raises hand:

To reiterate what other people have said, Small Fry ran the game very well, and there was nary a complaint as everything went very smoothly the whole way through. He also has by far the nicest setup for any home game I've seen.

The professional(and ex-professional?) dealers really kept the games running nicely, and they were all very courteous with my obvious lack of experience in non-holdem live games, and my frequently forgetting to ante.

I had to get really lucky a few times to win the tournament, including winning a pretty terrible all-in against aces with a runner-runner straight. The other people played very well, and made for lots of interesting, fun play, with nice challenges against steals, good play from the blinds, and overall the opposite of everything that makes microstakes internet MTTs ugly.

The mixed games after the tournament were fun and crazy, with some nutso Omaha variations and mixed lowball draw games. I am apparently a total Badugi fish.

Overall: great people, fun games, hope to play with them again in the near future.

all i know about the winner is that he 3-barrelled 7-2 high against my TPGK and I folded the river

if only i'd known the 7-2 prop bet was going...

edit: there's villain!

"Oh sweet I have the spade redraw too, looks like I only need to dodge the 7"

*dealer rolls over the 7 on the river*

"oh....CHIPS!"

I had a terrific time at this event! Thanks for everyone for hosting and coming and playing and all that.

I'm embarrassed to say it was my O8 hand that was pulled out of the muck to retrieve my winning low, but to be fair, it did take about 2 minutes for anyone to realize I had a qualifying low, so I wasn't the only one who missed it. And I'm not actually good at Baduggi; just a gigantic luckbox.

You all have discovered my achilles heel: Comprehending a low on a 4-low board with counterfeited hands, through a haze of whiskey and weed.

To be fair, I didn't even see Kurt's hand when I was trying to figure out the other two. Cuz that one should have been obvious to anybody. And I hadn't been dealing that hand, so I hadn't been working it out ahead of time.

Seriously, anybody have any good tips on that one? What do you look for? What's the quick way to sort it all out? In Hold'em I don't even look at the board until showdown.

I can calculate a pot-sized raise on the fly, but can't sort this out. It's embarrassing.

well in this case he had a live A low. the only way he could be beat is if someone had A3 since 2 4 5 6 was on board. and he ties any other live ace

wow i misclicked on this forum and now im mad because i def would have come to this. only about 20m away! maybe next year...

Glad to hear everyone had a great time...I didn't attend because I was busy watching the Stanfurd Cal game at the Farm and Cal pulled it off!! Look forward to hopefully going next year.

Newbie to San Francisco - can we have a meet up soon?