Ammon Brown

Have Car, Will Gamble After a lovely dinner last night, we found ourselves with little to do. We wanted to play a friendly game of poker, as we are wont to do, but no one’s house was convenient for us at the time. So what could be more convenient? Simple! Jump in the car and go to Atlantic City! We left New York at 11 PM and arrived in AC at about 2 AM after a few MapQuest misdirections. Marco, Christine, JD, Yoshi, and myself piled into our car and wound up playing poker at the Taj Mahal until 6 AM. It was one of those things that once we all playfully said we’d do it, there was no turning back. Never mind that all of us have obligations today. Never mind that the trip entails four hours of playing and six hours of driving. Never mind that we cannot really afford more lost sleep or lost money. We had resolved to be impulsive, and any naysaying was quickly quelched. The final tally? I can speak for myself here, you will have to look elsewhere for other peeps’ totals. I dropped $130 at the poker table, mostly due to getting impatient after too many bad hands and seeing too many flops (read: playing like crap). Really, I could not have played worse if I were blind and incredibly charitable. Don’t get me wrong, I took some brilliant pots from some good players, but I played like crap over the long haul. The silver lining is that I then put $40 on a blackjack table and turned it into $100 in about 15 minutes. It really was an incredible run at that table. So here I am, without a lick of sleep last night, blogging about it. And I also realized that I have gone completely crazy when my first thought in AC was “I can’t wait to blog this!” We may have to do it again real soon, Poopie-doops.

On another note, and probably improperly out of context, My brother got called to Bulgaria! Big ups to Micah!