Poker, Poker, Poker

I think we ended up playing for at least 4 hours total last night and then I managed to watch about 2.5 hours today of Celebrity Poker Showdown and the Foxsport championships. Wow, that's embarrassing. But I gotta admit, it's a freaking cool and fun game and I'm always itching to play these days.

I can't believe how popular hold em has become lately - for the longest time, all my friends and I would play blackjack over poker, but now, I can't imagine why we used to do that.

I remember in early high school, we used to sit around and have blackjack games on credit all during break and lunchtime, racking up debts on one another and then once in awhile collecting.

Funny stuff. I ran into an old friend of mine from middle school this weekend who lives up in the bay area and goes to organized poker games. He apparently sees some of my old buddies hanging in those joints these days.

I love gambling, but since when is it legal in California? We have these casino's everywhere, notably the Hustler one outside of LA? What's going on?