Hosted a $.25/.50 NL cash game last night $60 buyins 8 handed.

Aside from my having a horrible night of cooler hands and donkish play, and eventually cashing down $100 for the night, my guests and I took away an amazing story from the night...

About 2 hours into the session (while in my basement game room), the power suddenly goes out... We'd been experiencing a few days of turbulent weather (tornados, thunderstorms, etc...). While it was only sprinkling lightly at the time, it's believed a tree fell onto a nearby power line, thus causing us to lose power for a couple hours.

When the power went out, many of my players later told me they thought the game was over... However, after scrambling for a few minutes, I came out with headlamps, chem lights (glow sticks), and camp lanterns, to keep the game alive. I even have a battery power amp/stereo that kept the tunes going as well...

Quite an epic night of cards last night, which all my attendees are raving about on social media today... Here's some pics (obv they are not the best quality... it was dark, yo!)

Die Hards bordering on Degenerate Love it.

Sarge

Awesomesauce.

Haha. The show must go on!

Nice. During hurricane sandy a few years ago we played .50/1 3 handed by candlelight. I said "I check in the dark" and we all broke out in laughter over the irony

I can barely see the cards in normal light. I might as well have wore a blindfold LOL for those few hours. Well Played Sir. I doubt your crew will forget that episode.

It's situations like that where you need an illuminated raised rail that runs off a battery. Those headlamps looks like they work great though.

Totally had that exact thought!

However, Dave on CT suggested THIS:

Black Light LED Rope



OMG, totally on my bucket list!

I had this happen at a home poker game once as well, we also got by for at least an hour with candles, flash lights and cell phone lights until the power came back on.

Love it!!! Die hards for sure

Bordering?!?

Nicely done, sir, and welcome to HP.

That's dedication right there! At my last home game we were having storms also and the lights flickered for about 1 second and everyone was like if the lights go out I'm outta here. I need to find more players like your group!!

I think we should try to make this a regular/annual event.

We had our own poker after dark last night. Around 11:30 pm during our league game the lights went out. We took a peek outside to see some high winds and lightning. Undeterred I rummaged around for my table building supplies and took out a 5m strip of LED lighting and hooked them up to a 12v battery and just like that the game was back on. We tucked the leds under the rail against the raised rail and played for another 3 hours.

Nice. I need to add some LED strips and a good battery to my hurricane preparedness kit.

So cool. What a great way to improvise!

I like the dedication. Blackout poker... awesome!