Sherwood Casino may see another Pot Limit Omaha game in the future, but I fear that future might be distant. With a couple of no shows, and some day of cancellations, the prospects for Saturday night’s game seemed bleak. The first hour or so was played three handed between me, John Bl, and Dan L.. There wasn’t a whole lot of action in the early going. John lost a lot of his stack early, but eventually got back to even. Overall the three of us just sort of traded chips around.

This was Dan’s first trip back to Sherwood in a while. It turns out that his extended absence was due to his getting really into ping pong. He’s traveling all over, playing in different tourneys and so forth. My favorite part of the Dan ping pong story though involved a match that pitted him against an angry Russian guy who sought to tilt him by verbally taunting him. If you’ve met Dan before you know that he is mild mannered and very polite, in short, a gentleman. However, according to Dan, the angry Russian brought out the beast in him, and after beating the guy, Dan let loose with some taunting of his own. Apparently there’s a semi-high probability of a rematch.

Eventually we scored some more poker players. Allain showed up from New Hampshire a little late and weary. He’d made the final table at some tourney up there, which meant he’d already put in a ton of poker hours for the day. Taylor and Harry also popped in to make the game six handed.

Taylor arrived in pretty high spirits and they didn’t dampen after he sat down, as he smashed flops like a jackhammer. Gone were the days of evenly tossing chips around, the Taylor show was on. I forget how much he finished up, but if you are in need of a loan, now might be a good time to hit him up, just sayin’.

There were five times during the night that people wound up with quads. I don’t know if this is standard for Omaha, but I am certain it will not happen the next time we play Hold’em. How certain you ask? Well, consider the next Sherwood Casino promotion. Hit the fifth set of quads of an evening and be the winner of a Stu Unger autographed baseball!!

Next game might be in a while as I am going to be going on vacation soon. Hope everybody runs real good in the meantime.