Madden 2005 Football!

So much for getting any sleep. I was woken up because I was too hot. I got up and started to get ready to face my day. I did not know what it had in store but I was ready to have some fun.

I started by going to Ryan's apartment. We sat around for a little while watching TV and deciding what movie to go see. We did decide to see After the Sunset. We had some time before the movie started. I suggested that we hit Moscow.

We went to Hastings. I was looking for a book on Bounty Hunting, but I could not remember the name of it. I looked around for a bit and could not find it either. We left and decided to get some lunch. We went to Branagans for some pizza. We got calzones and cinnamon break sticks. We spent some time there talking about sports and other life issues. The TV's had two different college football games on.

Ryan wanted to stop at WalMart to pick up a video game. He ended up buying Madden Two-Thousand-Five.

We took off with about fifteen minutes to spare to get back to Pullman for the movie. The threatre was about one-tenth full. After the Sunset was a pretty good movie. They had a pretty funny homoerotic scene in the middle of the movie. It has been done before, but this one had me laughing pretty hard.

After the movie we went to his place and played the video game for a little while. I have never been very good at video game systems beyond the original Nintendo with the two button controller. This controller I am using has an A, B, X, Y, Z, L, R, and Start buttons, plus three control pad type things. Ryan beat me, but it took a while for anyone to score.

Ryan and I were going to meet with Ben and his girlfriend at John's house for a night of poker. Ben was going to bring his poker table and we were going to have some fun. We met Ben at Dissmore's at eight pm. Then we drove to John's house. The poker table-top was set up and we started to play.

I have always thought Ben was a ten-six-seven, but today I saw him in a tighter shirt. He has very well defined biceps. He also is a very friendly and outgoing guy. We all laughed and joked all night long.

The first hand I had a good hand, but Ryan had a better one. I ended up going all in and lost. So I had to buy in after my first hand. I was ready to start to battle. But I lost some more and bought in a third time. That is when things started to turn around. I won some hands. One of Ben's last hands before he left was a game of Two Card Guts with a thirty cent ante. The pot grew and grew. At one point three people stayed in. All had pairs, but lost to the bitch hand. Then later on Ryan stayed in with an Ace-Two. The bitch had a Two. Then I showed the second card. It was a Two. A pair of Two's. Everyone started going crazy. Ryan had to match the pot. So now the pot was huge.

Two hands later I get a pair of Tens. I stayed in -- and so did Ryan. We both flipped up our pair of Tens. We beat the bitch. So we ended up splitting the pot. That put me up for the night.

John and I went head to head in a Texas Hold'Em hand. I had a Jack-Seven. John had a Jack-Two. The board had a Two-Three-Jack. Then on the turn there was another Jack. Of course I did not know John's hand. But he went all in. I was way up. I had trip Jacks. We flipped up our cards and I saw he had me beat. I needed a Seven on the river. I did not get one.

We continued to play for about another thirty minutes. It was about three-thirty am when we called last hand. I walked away up a few bucks. John won a little and Ryan reported some winnings.

I dropped Ryan off at home. I then went home myself. I was tired. It was time for bed.