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Newsletter Volume 18 Issue 27 March 22, 2007

John “Rotten” Reeds out played the competition and jumped into 1^st Place overall in the points race. Wayne “Super Trooper” Von Clasen wins 7 of 9 but it wasn’t enough and finished 2^nd. “Bad” Betty Morehouse started hot but cooled off to end up in 3^rd. “Big” Willie Evans has an up and down night but finished in 4^th.
Winners
from Last Week's Event

1st Place	John “Rotten” Reed 17 pt, 7 wins, 141 Net Spread, and 167 Positive Spread	$56.00
2nd Place	Wayne Von Clasen	$40.00
3rd Place	Betty Morehouse	$25.00
4th Place	Willie Evans	$19.00

            Ms. Sweety jumped around four times tonight before finding good company to spend the rest of the night with. Ms. Sweety started off by visiting Jeremy “The Cat” Morris in Game 1….his dad (Jerry Morris) was nice enough to deal it to him. Next, she headed over to visit Dewayne “Big E” Eisenbarth in Game 3…..none other than Jerry Morris also dealt this 24. John “Rotten” Reed was the next pegger to declare 24 in Game 4 while playing (skunking) “Trooper” Tom Varnell. Her last stop of the night was with Helen “The Hellion” Daniels in Game 7. Helen held onto Ms. Sweety for the rest of the night and left with $16 and a smile!

EVENT HAPPENINGS

            First was John “Rotten” Reed who turned in a 17 Gm Pt, 7 W, +141 Sprd Pts card tonight. Yes, that is a 17 point card with only 7 wins….trust me you didn’t want to play John tonight. He started the night off with 4 straight wins including back to back to back skunks in Games 2, 3, & 4! He had 11 points after 4 games! His first loss came when Martin “Ole #1” Hellberg beat him.   John won the next game but lost the following game to “Bad” Betty Morehouse. John pulled up his bootstraps and won the last two games to finish the night. Good job John! If you recall, John finished in 2^nd last week and vaulted into 1^st Place in the points race with this weeks win.

             Second was Wayne “Super Trooper” Von Clasen who turned in a 15 Gm Pt, 7 W, +71 Sprd Pts card. Wayne started off with a win but then lost the next two games. He nearly double skunked (57 points) “Bad” Betty Morehouse in Game 4. Wayne put together 6 straight wins to finish the night including the skunk. Wayne beat his opponents by an average of 20 points a game but his two losses averaged 32 points each. Good job Wayne!

Third was “Bad” Betty Morehouse who turned in a 13 Gm Pt, 6 W, +52 Sprd Pts card. Betty started out on the right foot but staggered in the last half of the night. She put together a respectible 3 game win streak including an opening game skunk over Helen “The Hellion” Daniels. She then went on a streak that she probably wishes to forget about by winning every other game for the rest of the night. Just when she would get a win under her belt and build some momentum, she would lose a close game and start over. None the less, Betty finished in 3^rd Place on the evening. Good job Betty!

Fourth was “Big” Willie Evans (Visitor) who turned in a 12 Gm Pt, 5 W, +79 Sprd Pts card. Willie lost the opening game to Shirley “Buzz Saw” Guest by 5 points. Turning things around he skunked new club member Aaron Drivdahl in Game 2 and nearly skunked his 3^rd opponent only to be skunked in Game 4 by Dick “The Grumbler” Taylor. Willie tried to turn things around by beating “Trooper” Tom Varnell in Game 5 but then lost two straight. He had 7 points after 7 games and decided to take things into his own hands. He won Game 8 and pulled off a skunk in Game 9 over Pat “Driller” Jungmann to finish with 12 points. Good job Willie!

CLUB POINTS RACE (TOP 5 POINTS LEADERS)

1st Place	John Reed	175
2nd Place	John Hensley	163
3rd Place	Pat Jungmann	129
4th Place	Jim Duff	103
5th Place	Betty Morehouse	93

SPECIAL POOLS

No special pools reported…the Wheel is the only available hand.

28/29 POOL

           Wayne “Super Trooper” Von Clasen counted a 28 to win half of the pool ($252). He was dealt 4-5’s and cut a Jack. The pool was reduced to $252.

SKUNK FUND

            The skunk fund was busy tonight, it received $2.75 at the end of the evening, WE THANK ALL OF YOU!!

CRIBBAGE TIDBITS

There are 12,994,800 scoring hands in cribbage ((52 choose 5) x 5 -- 5 cards then any of those 5 as the starter card).
Approximately 7.8% of randomly drawn four-card hands score zero points before the starter card is factored in, and exclusive of in-play pegging points.
The odds of getting a 28 hand in a 2 player game are 1 in 15,028.
The odds of getting a perfect 29 hand in a 2 player game are 1 in 216,580.
The odds of getting a perfect 29 hand in a 3 or 4 player game are 1 in 649,740.
The most points that can be pegged by playing one card is 15, by completing a double pair royale on the last card and making the count 15 (12 for double pair royale, 2 for the 15, and 1 for last card). Although this is rare, players declare it as "15 for 15". The only combination to have this happen is the play values of 10-10-10 Go 7-2-2-2-2.
The highest score (excluding pegging) as a dealer is 53. The starter must be a 5, and one hand must have J555 while the other has 4466. The first being a 29 (With the right Jack) and the second being 24.
While 19 is generally recognized as "the impossible hand", meaning that there is no combination of 5 cards that will produce a score of 19 points, scores of 25, 26, 27, and greater than 29 are also impossible in-hand point totals. Sometimes if a player scores 0 points in their hand they will claim they have a "19 hand."
The most points during pegging is 46, if both players are dealt a 7 7 5 5 and a Jack is cut (Dealer gets 32 and non Dealer gets 14).

DIRECTOR’S NOTE

Jeremy “The Cat” Morris was the head judge tonight, thanks for your help. 27 weeks down, 9 to go.....

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