Sunday, June 21, 2009

#216 Portland Poker

Our China Neighborhood poker group is going strong. We continue to play on two Fridays per month and recently we have had more than 10 players each time.

One of our newcomers, Bernie, is the manager of a restaurant in Suzhou called the Portland Cafe - a good restaurant by the way if you have a chance to go there. Bernie has been lobbying us to hold the poker at his restaurant instead of the Jin Shui Wan clubhouse, so we did that on Friday night. It was a roaring success with a turnout of about 15 guys.

You can see some of our poker partners above. There are Larry from Boston and Michael from New Orleans, Scott from Canada and Dan from Arizona, Darren from Austrailia and Larry again, Tony with waitress/pool girl Linda, and finally Paul (Wales), Stan (Arizona), Rich (Pittsburgh), David (France), Bernie (Vancouver), and Jim (Peoria).

If anyone in Suzhou is looking for a regular poker game, we play on the first and third Friday of every month. New players are always welcome (especially beginners, but not women). If you are interested, please send a message to me through this blog and I'll get you on the email list.

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