The Blind Bear’s custom-made poker table has arrived, with the speakeasy’s name etched into black felt. They will break it in this Sunday with a game of Omaha. You can click the link to learn how to play this Hold’em variant. Basically, there are tons of straight draws, but they’re probably no good if three of a suit are on board, making a flush possible. But the flush is probably no good if the board is paired, putting out the possibility of a full house. Omaha is usually played pot-limit rather than no-limit, which is good because it means Michael Bean can’t go all-in every hand. Free to play, starts at 6:30 PM.
Earlier this week I posted that the Green Beetle will start serving breakfast at 7 AM, effective today. Owner Josh Huckaby messaged me with a clarification – breakfast will only be served Monday through Friday for now. If it appears there is demand for breakfast on weekends, they will consider adding it at a later point.
Stache for Cash: If iGive, the Church Health Center’s monthly donor program, attracts 25 new members by November 21, CHC friend and donor Cameron Peterson will shave his awesome mustache. Details here.
Beer news: Starting on February 2, 2002, Stone Brewery tapped its first in a series of Stone Vertical Epic Ale, with subsequent beers in the series to be aged one year, one month, and one day after the previous one. So the second beer was 03-03-03, then 04-04-04, and so on. The final beer in the series, Stone Vertical Epic 12-12-12, will be tapped at both the Downtown and Cordova Flying Saucer at 12 noon on Wednesday, December 12. The Saucer will also tap a keg of Vertical Epic 11-11-11 from the bar’s cellar. In addition, there will be a toast of Unibroue La Fin du Monde to celebrate the Mayan calendar’s prediction of the end of the world in December.
Congrats to Nate Silver of the FiveThirtyEight.com website for calling 50 out of 50 states correctly in the presidential election. Last election he got 49 out of 50 correct, only missing Indiana. This time, he had Florida as red until the morning of the election – when his statistical analysis just barely flipped it to blue. Sure enough, it looks like Obama just barely squeaked out a win in the Sunshine State. His excellent neutral analysis is redefining political punditry. FiveThirtyEight, a blog on the New York Times site, accounted for 20% of all NYT site traffic as the election drew near.
Time to go drink some beer. Saucer first, then Blind Bear for trivia at 8.