Sweet Mother of Festivus!

I was hoping to share one more tacky poker gift for the holidays, and I'll be damned if I didn't hit the jackpot with this little tchotchke.

POKER PLAYING CHIMPS
Chimps bluff each other out of chips in this charming ode to fools and their money.
Alabastrite. 9 3/4" x 5 1/4" x 6 1/2" high. $24.95

Target Sucks at Poker

When shopping for the special lady in your life, be sure to stay away from this item at Target.

The cards don’t discriminate. A gal has just as good a chance at getting a straight flush or a full house as a guy does. This classic set celebrates the fact that Poker’s boom in popularity isn’t being fueled solely by men. Made especially for women this sleek colorful case comes packed with 200 8-gram poker chips, deck of cards and 5 dice. Includes instructions for Texas Hold ’Em and a poker ranging sheet. Ladies, the next jackpot is all yours.

• Especially made for women
• 200 2-color 8-gram chips
• Pink felt liner with mirror and removable chip tray
• 1 deck of cards, 5 dice and a dealer chip
• How to Play Texas Hold ’Em instructions and poker ranging sheet

Readers, we don't make this crap up. Worst. Copy. Ever.

Mike's wife sucks at poker

I've told my friends and my bride that someday I would like to invest in a custom set of poker chips. It's an expensive endeavor and not one that should be entered into without serious forethought.

So here's an unhappy development for a guy named "Mike". I found his custom chips for sale on Ebay.

"Your looking at a pretty new set of chips here. I only used them once. These are going to be hard for me to sell because they say Mikes casino on them, so I'm hoping someone out there wants these. I'm only selling because the wife won't let me have any more games :( .

To the facts:

I bought these chips from www.homepokerchips.com for about $670.00 with shipping. 98cents a chip and 150 bucks for artwork."

"Artwork" being a relative term:


With 4 hours left on the auction, Mike's chips have a high bid of $206.50. Poor schmuck. He's gonna take at least a $500.00 hit on these. (Update - final price $255.00)

Note to self: make sure bride is completely on board with all aspects of custom poker chip purchase.

Card covers that suck

Does anyone really need a card cover that looks like this?

I used to think he sucks, but not anymore.

If you've caught any of the 7 card stud from the 2004 WSOP coverage on ESPN, then you probably remember this guy



Marcel "The Flying Dutchman" Luske, who it turns out, is much cooler than I thought he was. Warning: have a hanky ready.

"the worst. hotel. Ever."

Jim made the first post of a "serious" poker weblog last week. Continuing in that vein, there is a self-proclaimed tall, fat, drunk guy (seperated from Nick at birth?) who goes by the weblog handle "G-Rob" and writes at Up For Poker. He has made an amusing entry about his recent stay at The Plaza which he calls "the worst. hotel. EVER."
That is, unless you like to "rub elbows with your favorite celebrities" like Magnum PI's Larry Manetti, in which case The Plaza is your kind of jernt.

Underground?

My final post of the day. Can you believe that this underground NJ poker club got raided and shut down last month?



We're not sure if it's completely legal, so let's start a website!

Authorities have broken up a makeshift, illegal casino housed in a massive warehouse in Dover, where two Roxbury police officers and their friend allegedly ran poker games and tournaments that raked in as much as $10,000 a week.

The two officers -- Sgt. Richard M. Winstock, 36, of Independence, and Thomas J. Juskus, 42, of Knowlton, both in Warren County -- were suspended with pay immediately after their arrests Saturday on charges of official misconduct, conspiracy, maintaining a gambling resort, and promoting gambling since at least Dec. 4. Their 5th Street Club, is in an 8,000-square-foot warehouse at 48 Richboynton Road in Dover.

And we thought that Showplace was a little iffy.

No good can come of this

I guess the purpose of this blog is to make fun of people we don't know. As opposed to NoLimitGrundle, where we make fun of people we do know.

I'm going to open the bidding with this - One woman's journey into the world of online poker....