I had a few buddies from the "Kalbi Club" (the Korean dinner club we have) over for a poker game Saturday night.  I think this may only be the second time I've had people over to the house for poker.  Mostly because not that many of my friends play poker.  When we used to live in Manhattan, we had a huge apartment and were centrally located so we would have a office poker game every few months.

God!  Those guys at the desk were terrible at poker.  Funny thing is, *I* would always be the one suggesting we play for smaller stakes, and the terrible players always wanted to play higher.  I think about 65% of the 2+2 poker forums just lost any shred of respect they had for me, by not taking money from willing fish.  I must've won over $5K off those those guys (that's over 50 BIs) in the dozen or so times we've played.  Just goes to show you that just because you're good at weighing and taking risk in one arena (trading) doesn't mean you're good at another (poker).

I know a lot of poker players view the "home game" as an easy source of additional income, but I never want to take *a lot* of money from my friends or co-workers.  I just think when you see people on a regular basis, you want to keep things friendly.  You hear of "buddies" playing poker for their weekly pay checks, and that sh*t is just stupid.  What kind of f*cking "buddy" is going do that?  A real buddy will say, "dude, you need that money to pay your rent."  Hmm... I think I just lost the other 35% of 2+2.  Anyway, it's probably one of the many reasons poker has a bad image in society - too much publicity for the poker 'tards and not enough on the positive aspects of poker. 

So we'll probably play with a $20 BI.  Most of the people are in business or medicine, so this is going to be waaaay low stakes.  Some of the guys seem pretty bad, but I think it would still be tough to lose more than $100 - a cost of a night out (unless you are Ricky "tasteful art" Mask, Andrew "ship a stranger $500" Song, Tuco "$3600 for a 'date'" Ramirez, etc), which I think is reasonable.  Mrs. Fly's making appetizers, homemade chicken soup and pot roast for dinner, so it should be pretty awesome.  I mean all that good food, beer and wine, and that's worth $100 right there.