For a month or so now, ever since Matt got cable, he's been enamored with the idea of having a Texas Hold'em Poker night for game night, and tonight was the night! We all headed over to Matt's apartment for the change of venue and some high-stakes bluffing action. Kathleen and Mike brought some high-quality clay poker chips, and Burr, Natalie, Laura and Matt rounded out the marks, I mean players. We each took some starting chips and let the cards fly.

We all took some time remembering the hand rankings and the details of Texas Hold'em, but Kathleen, the on-line poker pro, was glad to help us out. You each get two cards, and then five cards are played in the middle of the table, with betting in-between the cards being laid down. It cuts down on the luck of normal poker and makes the hands much higher and closer. Each of us had our ups and downs, with Matt, Burr and myself in one tense bidding match, where Matt whipped out his hand of 4 jacks to crush us both. We ended the evening with an "all-in" round, which Laura won, and hope to play again sometime soon.