Chris Halverson’s Blog

Mrs. H and I went out for dinner on Saturday for our five year anniversary. We went to our favorite nice restaurant, Forepaugh’s in St. Paul. It’s an old mansion that has been converted into a restaurant. It’s pretty cozy and romantic with an 1880’s decor. They serve Continental food, British and French and their specialty is Beef Wellington. The Wellington is incredible, absolutely incredible. We’ve special ordered it in advance before as it’s a “special” and it’s not always on the menu. Needless to say, when Mrs. H called to make reservations she ensured that they would have it for us. We got there and had a couple drinks, scotch for me, White Russians (”The Dude Abides”) for the Mrs. My wife suddenly sees the desert cart and tells me that their signature dessert, English Trifle, is not there. I about fell out of my seat turning around. I virtually grab our waitress the next time she comes by and she assures me that more is coming. *whew* We then order a nice Pinot Noir and she brings me another scotch. Then she realizes I didn’t order and leaves it anyway. Score. Dinner, wine (yes, we finished off the bottle) and dessert were amazing as usual. After talking some more and some coffee, we head on home.

Mrs. H was having a rough day and was super tired and the alcohol didn’t help, so she went straight to bed. What do I do? Fire up Party. I had a crappy day earlier in the day so I wasn’t really in the mood to play, but then I saw SirFWALGMan and Maudie both sitting at a 50/1 table. Just what I needed, some mindless, fun poker. I jump on the list and almost immediately get a seat.

The banter starts immediately and I work on presenting a drunken table image, it wasn’t far from the truth so it wasn’t that hard. I won a bit, then was knocked down to $11 when I made a straight on the flop and brought along two other people for the ride. I got a little lucky because the river brought the possibility of a J high straight if somebody had stuck around and had a T. That got me back up to where I had some chips and then I went on a roll. The hammer won once for me (yes, I showed) as did a lot of middle pairs. An hour of fun talk and table tilting brought me +40BB. I’ll definitely take that after the debacle that was my earlier, more serious play. It was a good time, even though Sir went psycho on one guy after a terrible suckout (guy stayed in a capped pre-flop with K5o), and we even got another person semi-talking. Good fun on a late Saturday/early Sunday night. Hopefully I can start catching some cards back in the real game and rebuild after a bad weekend.

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