Subject: Random additions
From: Lee Jones <leej@atheros.com>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 08:59:30 -0700 (PDT)
To: BARGE List <barge@barge.org>

1. Sadly, I probably won't be at BARGE this year.  Work prevents me from
   being there.  There is an off-chance that I'll fly in for just a day
   on Saturday, but if so, I'll be an observer, not a participant.

2. I think I've been to 6 BARGEs.  My first was '94 at Luxor.  I think Dave
   Hughes won that year.  I think Andy Latto ran a calcutta on a laptop from
   the floor of the tournament - Andy?

3. We had the first BARGE baby pot limit game [1] in '94.  I remember Andy
   Latto, Martin Veneroso, JP Massar, Fich, and John Reed (JRX) in the game.
   The best part: the Luxor told us that by state law they couldn't keep
   the game private, but they'd put all our names on the list first, and
   then let the public in.  Fine.  After all the BARGErs who wanted to play
   were seated (and or left) a couple of locals sat in, clearly planning
   to take down the geeky computer nerds who couldn't keep them out of the
   game.  The geeky computer nerds cleaned the locals' clocks.  That was a
   fairly recurring theme in the early years of the computer-geek poker
   player: the locals would think they were going to eat our lunches, and
   they were wrong.  It was fun to have a bunch of folks go over to the
   Gold Coast and take down four of the top five money places in their
   Sunday afternoon tournament.

4. '94 was when Yui-Bin was at the height of his freeroll powers.  He was a
   master of getting various casino deals and making money from them.  You'll
   occasionally hear an old r.g.p. person refer to one of those casino
   promotions as a "Yui-Bin": "Yeah, they got this Yui-bin where you get
   $500 in chips for $400 in cash."  He donated first-out prizes to BARGE.

5. I'm awfully proud to be one of two people (along with Hashimoto) who
   has won BARGE, TARGET, and WRGPT.  But for sheer dominance of any r.g.
   event, Jeff Siegal is the unchallanged master.  He won three straight
   TARGETs.

6. I hit a six-outer to beat Crunch in BARGE '98.  Ever since then, my
   Calcutta price has been so absurd that I refuse to rebuy myself.  The
   good news is that I bought back half of myself at the '98 Calcutta because
   I was sitting next to Linda Johnson, who said she'd buy half of my
   half.  I recall giving her $400 and change in return for the $20 bill
   she'd given me the day before.  Normally, our transactions seem to tilt
   the other way.

7. I'll never forget watching Hricsina and his staff puffing away on
   cigarettes at the Orleans during the *NON-SMOKING* tournament at BARGE '99.
   Zimmers had to ask them *twice* not to smoke.  I took an unseemly
   amount of pleasure in seeing Hricsina, ah, "removed" from the Orleans
   last year.

8. The "vegetarian" dinner at the BARGET banquet last year was an
   embarrassment.  Just because you don't want a giant hunk o' beef doesn't
   mean you might not want some protein tossed in there.

9. If somebody would forward this to barge-history, I'd apprecaite it.

I could go on, but I need to do real work.

Regards, Lee

[1] Which has, alas, largely morphed into a non-baby game.  I would love to
    help revive the baby version.
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