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16 Players came out do play cribbage tonight.  When the smoke cleared, Jim "Teacher" Duff walked away with top honors.  "Trooper" Tom Varnell, Shirley "Buzz Saw" Guest, and "Devil" Dean Van Donge rounded out the other payout positions.

 Winners
 from Last Week's Event

             Ms. Sweety had a slow night....she only moved around 3 times.  J.R. "The Spoiler" Cast held onto a 24 in Game 2 against Wayne "Super Trooper" Von Clasen.  "Easy" Ed Baustian stole Ms. Sweety from J.R. in Game 5 while playing John "Saweet" Hensley.  "Devil" Dean Van Donge was the last person spotted with Ms. Sweety after declaring a 24 in Game 8 while playing Wayne "Super Trooper" Von Clasen.  Maybe we should change Wayne's nickname to Wayne "Deals a lot of 24's" Von Clasen.  For Dean's skill he went home with an extra $16 at the end of the evening.

EVENT HAPPENINGS

            First  was Jim "Teacher" Duff who turned in a 15 Gm Pt, 7 W, +95 Sprd Pts card.  Jim had a good run of cards and skill tonight!  He pretty much had his way with all opponents.  He had a few blemishes on his card including a 2 point loss to Shirley "Buzz Saw" Guest in Game 5.  He went on to wind the next 3 games but lost another close game in Game 9 against Jeremy "The Cat" Morris.  Jim looked like he was going to win the game with the deal and only 8 points to go.  Jeremy's delt the cards and was very stingy on giving up any pegging points.  Jim counted and wound up 4 points short.  None the less, Jim took top honors tonight....good job Jim!

            Second was "Trooper" Tom Varnell who turned in a 14 Gm Pt, 7 W, +26 Sprd Pts card.  After the first 3 games Tom was sitting at 1 win and 2 losses.  Not one to give up, he motivated himself to go on to win the next 6 games in a row to slide into 2nd place on the evening.  He had a close win over fellow Alaskan trooper Wayne "Super Trooper" Von Clasen in Game 6 by a mere 2 points.....I don't think Wayne is going to send Tom a Christmas card this year!  Good job Tom!

            Third was Shirley "Buzz Saw" Guest who turned in a 14 Gm Pt, 6 W, +90 Sprd Pts card.  Shirley was on fire tonight.....in the first 7 games.  She won 6 straight games to start the evening including 2 skunks.  The first skunk occurred in her first game against Wayne "Super Trooper" Von Clasen, her last skunk was in Game 6 against Jeremy "The Cat" Morris.  She had an amazing 14 game points after the first 6 games!  The cribbage gods took it upon themselves to turn Shirley's night around....she lost the last 3 games of the night.  Good job Shirley....next time ignore the cribbage gods and win the last 3 games!

            Fourth was "Devil" Dean Von Donge who turned in a 12 Gm Pt, 6 W, +20 Sprd Pts card.  Dean put together a pretty good card tonight.  Out of the box he won the first 4 games.....then the cribbage gods got involved.  He lost Games 5, 6, & 7 in the middle of the evening before the cribbage gods left to heckle Shirley for a while!  He finished the evening strong with 2 wins and wound up in 4th place and holding Ms. Sweety at the same time!  Good job Dean!

HONORABLE MENTION

            Wayne "Super Trooper" Van Clasen narrowly missed a string of pearls by winning his last game of the night against John "Rotten" Reed.....needless to say the cards were not in Wayne's favor tonight.

CLUB POINTS RACE (TOP 5 POINTS LEADERS)

SPECIAL POOLS

            "Trooper" Tom Varnell scored a 23 hand and walked away with $10.  Thanks Tom for opening the special pools back up!

28/29 POOL

            No reported 28/29 chances.  The 28/29 pool started at $267 and went up by $16 to $283.

SKUNK FUND

            The skunk fund received $1.00 at the end of the evening, WE THANK ALL OF YOU!!   

DIRECTOR’S NOTE

            Carl "Wizard" Schaefer was the head judge tonight, thanks for your help.  5 weeks down, 31 to go.....

By: Jeremy Morris (Technical Assistant), Sweet Onion Peggers, Club #274