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My friend Chris and I went to Evansville, IN yesterday to play some poker. Evansville is about 2 1/2 hours from Nashville, we left around 9am and were at the poker table around noon. When we first got there they didn't have a table going but they had 7 people on the waiting list. We only had to wait about 15 minutes before the game started.

In seat 1 was a young guy, came to the table with under $100. Seats 2, 3, 4 were all 50 plus year old men, they obviously knew each other, and always seen a flop no matter what. Seat 5 was another older gentlemen that acted like he didn't know how to play, wasn't sure the blind structure, etc. Seat 6 was my friend Chris. Random people came and went out of seat 7. Seat 8 was a 30 something guy who stated he normally plays $1/$2 NL but that table wasn't good right now so he was just going to play in this game. I was in seat 9 and in the beginning, seat 10 was an Asian middle aged lady that stated she didn't know how to play either. She thought the button went around the table to the right not the left.

Nothing really stands out about the players except it was a normal never fold'em hold'em game. After about an hour or so I was getting pretty frustrated with never hitting a flop and was down about $40 or so. I looked over at Chris and asked if he wanted to take a "smoke break" (neither of us were smoking). After talking over the table with Chris I decided to come back to the table and turn up the heat, play very aggressive, which is my normal style.

Within about 45 minutes things were turning around for me. I was hitting my rush of cards (even hit quad's on one had), playing aggressive, showing strong hands and was up about $65 within a short period of time.

My friend Chris was down to about $45 and just couldn't get the cards. Before to long, his rush started and it didn't end... not until I wanted to leave (sorry Chris). Chris had a great run of cards and was playing very well and next thing you know he was up about $200. He probably could have / wanted to stay longer but we had a 2 1/2 hour drive home.

At the end of the day, I was down $17 and he was up $197 and we had a great Sunday trip. We got to talk about and play poker for about 10 hours, I can't think of a better way to spent a weekend afternoon.

Playing live poker is something I truly enjoy and hope to be able to continue to do it on a somewhat regular basis.

PEACE!