Last night we had our regular poker game, but instead of playing at our usual place, we were at another friend's house. When my friend called me to ask me to bring one of my mouse-pad table-tops, I asked her if I should bring chips as well. (Last time we played there, someone brought the usual horrible suited dice chips.)
SHE SAID "YES, LISA, BRING YOUR CHIPS!!!!"
I got very very excited. Packed up nearly 1000 of my samurais, my samurai dealer button, and a special deck of KEMs I had bought to "match" the samurais (pre-USPC, Dogwood pattern). OMFG!!
Instead of playing the usual .20/.40 limit, I told them we would be playing .25/.50 with a .10 small blind (the $5 chips were .10 -- I have been waiting for the chocolate-mints). There was, of course, some confusion about the betting: "How many of these do I bet?" "Um, one -- it says 25 cents ON THE CHIP."
Other amusing comments: "These almost seem to stick together." Me: "That is because they are solid chips." "They don't slide across the felt very easily." Me: "Well, they shouldn't. You don't want chips to be slippery like the crap plastic chips."
At least they did notice that they are gorgeous.
And now, I give you -- playing with decent chips at last!!
Could this be the third sign of the apocalypse? I doubt it because next week we will go back to playing with the crap chips. But at least I will not be there: I will be in Atlanta donking around with my CT friends!!
PS -- The friend holding out the chips in the top picture usually doesn't play with us. So naturally, she crushed the game for almost $15. One hand she called with K4o and flopped 2 more Kings. To add insult to injury, she had mistakenly taken the wrong hand. And the person who should have gotten the K4o would have folded it pre-flop. Naturally, the person who lost to the K4 was a little mad. Good times!
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