He’s four months over the deadline of when he said he’d be back and back he is…$30,000-$60,000 Limit Holdem with a $3,000,000 buy-in. Think those figures are a typo? It’s just 6 chips and 12 chips, just like a $6-$12 game only played with flags. Andy’s back and he’s ready to play. He was heads-up with Chip R. when I went to work tonight.

He was always so friendly towards me when I dealt to him and spoke of Montana and how much he liked the state that I couldn’t resist going up to say “Hello!” I waited until the dealer was shuffling and approached him with, “Hi Andy! Welcome back.”

He jumped up and grabbed my hand, pulled off headphones, said he had ear plugs in and couldn’t hear me very well. I repeated that it was nice to see him back in the room. He replied with a warm smile, “Thank you. It’s nice to be back here.”

I moved on and he went back to his game. Does he really remember me? Hell if I know. He’s just so damn polite and appears to be such a nice guy that I really wouldn’t expect any other kind of greeting from him. I said ‘hello’ to Chip also but he didn’t jump up…he gave me a smile and returned the ‘hello’. Chip’s one of my favorites.

When I hit table 1, late in the night, it was Jennifer, Jason, a stranger, Ted F., and Mike W. Johnny C. joined the game later and Andy’s name came up in conversation. Ted said that Andy had won around $400,000 for the night and Chip was supposed to play him again. This game was $1,500-$3,000 Mixed.