Flights to Vegas

Are 1/2 price if booked today or tomorrow on Southwest. Dates the flights are good are from January 13 through mid-March. Anyone interested in slapping something together? I can get a good price on rooms...

2009 Membership Drive

This will be a fluid post, capturing the names of league members who opt-in for 2009. If your name's not on the list, you will not be considered a league member.

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1. Hirp
2. Porqchop
3. Marneus
4. Devil Down
5. Holy Mohly
6. Jack Chaser
7. Skrawg
8. McDaddy
9. SpaceJam
10. The Face
11. MoeCephus
12. Plains Moses
13. Drifter
14. Ferg
15. Giggity
16. Waterboy
17. Swag

Opting Out:
1. Flops
2. Ron Mexico
3. Tayjack
4. Chappy
5. Bronco
6. WhoDogg
7. Dakota Skye
8. GunButt

The Devil Wins

The Devil's pair of 6s took out Holy Mohly's flush draw heads-up. Good game played by all. Congrats to the Devil.

Heads-up... of Biblical Proportions

Holy Mohly vs. The Devil. Evil vs. evil. We will have a repeat champion tonight.

Marneus Out

All-in shorter stacked against the Devil with A8 off suit. Devil had J9 off suit, ended up getting a higher straight when his 9 hit the top end of the straight on the board. Down to heads-up with the Devil and Holy Mohly.

McDaddy Out

Three-way all-in. The Devil flopped the nut straight, Marneus flopped a flush draw and McDaddy flopped two pair. Marneus was short and hit the flush on the River to double up. McDaddy got no help and lost to the Devil. Stacks are pretty even. Lots of game left.

Porqchop and SpaceJam Out

On the same hand. The Devil did it. Space had KQ, Porq had A6 suited and the Devil had them chipped with 99. No help to anyone.

Ferg Out

Ran into McDaddy's pocket JJ when he had A9 suited. McDaddy big stacked again.

MoeCephus Out

SpaceJam laid a big ole suck out on our regular season points champ when he hit his lower under card. both had an Ace on the flop.

11:00 Update

8 players still alive. McDaddy, Mohly and Marneus have the big stacks. Everyone else is getting short.

$1k/$2k

MoeCephus is short stacked. McDaddy's rush continues. Can anyone stop this jack-o?

Blinds at $500/$1,000

Mohly just took another big pot from MCDaddy. Starting to look like these two mind end up playing heads-up.

Blinds Up Again

Holy Mohly just took a big pot from McDaddy, but Daddy is still in the lead. SpaceJam and Marneus are the short stacks, but still very much in the hunt.

Blinds Up Again

McDaddy still chip leader. Milk Duds and Whoppers nearly gone.

Pushing It Around

Blinds finally up to $200/$400. Still not a ton of action. McDaddy big stack. Ferg is short.

We Have A Chip Leader

McDaddy is large and in charge. The cost of poker just went up.

Jack Chaser Out First

McDaddy took him out when both hit a straight on the River. McDaddy's was higher.

Game Underway

Nearly asphyxiated everyone with the fireplace. The Devil took charge.

Live Blogging of Final Table

Sending this test message from my phone, but if this works... we'll have live blogging from the Final Table tonight. Be sure to tune in even if you couldn't turn out.

The Trophy's Here

And it isn't leaving my house. Come try to take it from me on Tuesday, December 16. Get your game on boys, this one's gonna be a grinder.

Congrats to all league members on another great season. We only dipped below 20 players for two OSTs this season. I'm anticipating that we may have a couple of open slots for next year, so be thinking about what players we may want to add to the league. We typically take folks who have played as guests for one or two events, or past players who would like to rejoin.

We might also all consider upping the OST entry fee in complement to the league entry fee increase we saw last year. A little extra scratch for the winners in a recession wouldn't be a bad thing.

Happy holidays to all.

Chips Ahoy

Because the Devil bitched.

1. MoeCephus - $31,500
2. Porqchop - $31,250
3. Marneus - $30,750
4. SpaceJam - $29,500
5. Holy Mohly - $28,250
6. McDaddy - $27,250
7. Ferg - $27,000
8. Devil Down - $26,750
9. Jack Chaser - $17,000