Friday, July 11, 2008

July 10, 2008 Session Report

Another good turnout last night with nine gamers in attendance: Nick, Paul, Gabe, Greg, Ben, Sarah, Val, Clayton joined me and, once again, we had two games going on for most of the session. Games played: For Sale, St. Petersburg, Toledo, Turn the Tide, Bohnanza and Sticheln.

We opened with a six-player For Sale game, which was won by Paul (52,000) with Val not far behind in second (48,000); Nick, Greg, Gabe and I also participated. By this time everyone else had arrived and we split into two groups: one playing St. Petersburg, and another trying a new game, Toledo, which Gabe had brought. St. Petersburg wound up with another win for Paul, who was the only one who had played before. Greg finished second, ahead of the Ben/Clayton duo with Val in fourth. The Toledo game was a close three-player contest, won by Nick (19) ahead of Sarah (18) and Gabe (17). I was fourth and last, but hey -- I was only five points back of the winner!

These games didn't end at the same time, so the Paul-Clayton-Val-Ben-Greg group wound up playing Turn the Tide, which was a shared win for Paul and Val and Bohnanza, which had to be picked up at the 9 PM close time with Ben winning that one. The other table of Nick, Gabe, Sarah and myself got in three hands of Sticheln before the witching hour, with Sarah winning by a wide margin to make up for the narrow loss in the Toledo game.

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