If you missed this weekend, you missed a fabulous time had by most of the ecrew. Personally, I loved meeting several eCrew in person for the first. People do NOT necessarily 'fit' their online name or your impression of them....and then some folks like Raisor definitely DO fit their names. We actually had 2 1/2 NL tables featuring ecrewers on different nights this w/e with the first being MUCH tamer than the 2nd one! The first one was great as a 'get to know you' kind of session as 11 of us had a great time in a private game at the Trop. My personal highlight that night had to be busting StickNMud with my AA on the button as his 55 thought I was 'stealing' on my button for the 45th consecutive time. His large reraise was met by a long think and an all in push from me. The look on Chet's face was priceless when his call was met by my flipped up AA. No help for him on the board and gg StickNMud.

Susieque and Emarfit also had a great tournament run while there as they both made the final table of a $100 buy in event. Unfortunately they both busted fairly early in 6th and 7th place I think! Regardless both played excellently and Emar even monied in one other tournament she played and I think they were her first live events!

Sunday evening presented our crew with an extra evening of poker as a blizzard played havoc with nearly all ecrewers travel plans. In return, we presented Atlantic City with a true '1/2 NL table from hell' as an already inebriated AngryCLEC and myself sat down with a bottle of wine at an unsuspecting 1/2 NL table that had various ecrewers floating in and out from time to time in the evening. This was at Ceasars and the only 'pro' I recognized at the table got up and left soon after Clec and I sat down.
This is because the two of us quickly proceeded to terrorize the table with our insatiable appetite for raises, reraises, all ins and calls for more wine! One young southern man grew increasingly frustrated with us as I began calling him Mr. King Ten because of his atrocious call down to the river with that hand when he had absolutely none of the flop or the rest of board. About 15 hands later Mr. King Ten donked off his remaining 150 chips to me with an all in bluff on the river with K7 and again, he had not hit the board at all. I had called with AJ (and had hit nothing also) but I knew that in his increasingly furious state of mind, nothing would be quite sufficient! My call totally lit Mr. KTs short fuse and he marched down to my end of the table! He put a hand on my shoulder and to my astonishment proceeded to physically threaten me and said 'My name is JOE, not Mr. King Ten and if you ever call me that again I will come down here and kick your fukking ass from here to Tennessee!'

Admittedly, I was drunk and quite obnoxious and totally egged on by Mr Clec of course! However I was quite stunned by this over reaction on the part of the newly named Mr. Joe! I was also 3 sheets to the wind at this point and totally unable to defend myself if Mr. Joe ever tried to make good on his threat. Somehow, despite my total innebriation, I managed to NOT call him anything but Mr. Joe for the small amount of time that he remained on the table and my head thankfully stayed attached to my shoulders! I think AngryCLEC nailed Mr. Joe's rebuy of chips and he slunk away so quietly that I did not even notice! Fortunately for Clec, very, expensive wine does little to impair his poker abilities and he and Raisor who had now also joined the table began to build enormous stacks.

My ability to just remain upright at the table was strained by trying to match Clec's drinking ability, so I soon clawed my way from the table and wobbled all the way to my room. It was only 11PM. The next morning I woke up and realized that I was so inebriated that I had left my chips at the table! I checked with the staff and they had my chips!! I then found out that I was only down about $250 for my obnoxious and drunken efforts the night before! (Mostly thanks to Mr CLECs equal ability at absorbing alcohol and my chips!)