Eleven of us played, MissT – Tanya, JohnnyHarp – John Harper, Ickster – Vickie, LR Geenen – Linda, General K – Isaac, Pan-demonium – Vivienne, FlatBlack – Zach, Jon – Clan Founder and LOSER, heh, heh, heh, Felicia Lee, Blaize, Glenn. The names are given in seating order beginning with the 1s.

I of course ordered . Immediately! I brought stick on tags so we could all make our ‘clan’ names and our real names visible so everyone would know each other. I also brought a seashell from Aruba and designated it to go to ‘first out’ for being a FISH! I brought a polished rock from Bellagio for the grand winner so they would be known as the real ‘rock’.

Ten of us put $1 in the kitty for a ‘last longer bet’. Zach brought baby shoes for the bounty on his head. Jon brought a $100 bill, rolled up, stuck under the bridge of his glasses, for the bounty on his head. Tanya brought a bounty she’d made for the person that busted her.

While I was drinking wine and folding 9-4, 8-3, Q-4, 9-2, 6-3, and a nightmare of other garbage hands, I took pictures and tried to keep a small log of what was going on at the table. The other Clan members promised they would chime in and add their version to everything. I know it’s hard to believe but they made fun of me at one point – stating that I was writing detailed descriptions to begin with and the more I drank the less I wrote…lies! I wrote very little period. I did take some .mpgs with my camera…and some head shots of the Clan – as of this moment my web server is down (and has been for over an hour) and I haven’t been able to publish the pictures to it. When my server is up and I can post again, this will be the page the head shots are on.

Early in the tournament, Jon raised $400 and after everyone folded, he threw out the $100 bill/bounty on him…and showed A-A.

Vivienne was first to go. She went heads-up with Blaize – Flop Q-?-Q, 2 spades. The last card was 9s and Blaize filled up with Q-9. Vivienne made the Flush. Ouch! She got the seashell award.

I had A-K BB and called a $200 raise from John H. We were heads up – he was the Button. Flop was a J and 2 littles. I checked. He bet $75. I folded. He said he flopped a set of Jacks. He raised my blind every round until I went Bust. Don’t worry, Buddy, there’ll be another tournament and another winner… He also raised twice with ‘the hammer’ – 7-2 off and showed it when he won the hand.

My button – I look down to A-6 of Clubs. Bingo – Felicia raised it to $250 – Blaize raised to $800 – Vickie raised it to $1350. Goodbye A-6. This was the 2nd best hand I’d picked up in about four rounds of the table. Vickie won without a caller. She had Aces. She held Aces three times during the tournament and within the first two blind levels, Aces were out 6 times.

A few hands later I picked up Q-J. I know this hand is crap but it looked like A-A after all the off beat – unsuited – never connecting cards I picked up. I believe the blinds were at $50-$100 and in the next few minutes we were going on break and the blinds were going to $100-200. I didn’t have to play but 4 or 5 of us took the Flop. The Flop was 8-9-little. Checked all the way around. The Turn was a Q. Blaize went all-in. He had me covered and I thought about it for about 45 seconds. I called. He showed K-K. I was out. Blaize had knocked out two of us.

Lots of noise and laughing was going on during the rest of the show. It went something like this:

Jon raised with 9-9. Isaac called (damned if I can remember his hole cards). Jon flopped a set – like A-9-? – a Q on the Turn gave Isaac an Ace high straight – the board paired an Ace on the River filling Jon up and sending Isaac out of action. It was an exciting hand. We were all cheering for Jon to lose every time he went all-in (sorry, kid, if you just weren’t so damn cocky).

Blaize picked up A-J, Vickie picked up A-A again and won that pot against Blaize. He picked up a Club draw on the Turn but A-A held up. Yippee, Sista!

Somewhere in here, Jon raised (I think Tanya bet or she was blind) and while she debated calling him, he was showing me and my camera 10-10. She did call with a draw and an over card. She missed the draw.

John broke Felica – she had K-K, he went in with A-4 Off and an Ace popped off right on the Flop.

Big hand – H-U-G-E hand for Blaize. Zach had J-J, went all-in. Jon over called all-in (If I’m wrong on the way the action went here, I’ll get corrected by ‘you know who’) with 2-2. Blaize went all-in with A-K. Jon had them covered, Blaize had Zach covered. The Flop was K-3-K and nothing else came to help. Zach was out and Blaize now held the coveted Baby Shoes. Blaize had busted three of us.

Vickie busted John – he had J-J, she held A-10S – no help on the Flop – an Ace on the Turn gave her the winner.

Glenn picked up K-K against MissT’s 3-3. Glenn went all-in and won. Tanya was severely short stacked now. The next hand was her BB and Glenn raised it enough to set her all-in. She could pay the small blind and look at one more hand. She threw her hand away and played the small blind in the dark. Blaize raised with J-10C. Tanya turned over Q-3 off. Flop A-10-? Blaize busted 4 of us…what a record. She handed him the package she’d brought – the homemade bounty she put on herself. A framed picture of Q-Q – someone else needs to fill in what the text is under the Queens. Blaize now counted coup on four of us.

I was cheering my sis on. It was 4 handed and she was one out of the money. I paid her and my entry fee – $100 + 10. When I pulled out the $100 bills, she informed me that she had $10. Ke-rist! I was laughing.

Almost the next hand, Jon went all-in with Presto (5-5). Blaize called him with K-J D. Flop was K and 2 diamonds. Jon lost his $100 bounty to Blaize. Blaize now had five of us and all the bounties.

A few hands later Glenn went all-in with A-10. Blaize called with either J or K-9. Queen was the high card on the Flop, 9 on the Turn knocked Glenn out. Sorry but my camera was running on these by now. I stopped taking notes a long time ago and I was on my 2nd or 3rd Another notch on Blaize’s deck of beats- he’d beaten six of us.

Then Vickie went all-in with 6-9S (don’t ask me why, I didn’t teach her that) and Blaize had A-J (I can’t tell from the .mpg if it was a J or a K). The board came Q-Q-3-4-K. Blaize won the last longer bet, first place and succeeded in busting seven of us…along with the fact that he claimed all bounties.

Congratulations, Blaize! Now will you join the damn Clan?

We then set up a Dealer’s Choice $2-4 Limit game in which the dealer called game choice. It was a little zany but a lot of fun. The Tournament started at 6 and we started to thin out about 11:30. I managed to get back $100 from my sis…she won’t cough up the $10 damn it! I should have let her pay it to start with…

I think everyone had a great time, if they didn’t I don’t know how they missed.