Thursday Cribbage Tournaments!

When you work the early shift at a neighborhood bar, time can pass pretty slowly. On just such an afternoon at McGrath's, Drew (a good friend) and I were chatting when he happened to notice a cribbage board, tucked away in one of the shelves of the back-bar. I mentioned that my mother had taught me to play, and that I spent hours and hours in my childhood playing the game with my sister and parents. It was the same with him, and so, for old time's sake, we decided to play a game.

It was so much fun, that we made it a regular thing, and we began to keep score of our game totals. As of this writing, he's beating me twenty-seven games to eight. I have decided that this is due to his excessive skill at the game, rather than my lack thereof.

In any case, Drew's brother (Eric, not to be confused with me, Erik) came into the pub one day and found us playing. So when I got busy, around 4:30pm, it was brother against brother on the cribbage board!

As more and more patrons noticed our game, we realized that we had enough players to run a small tournament! We scheduled the first one for Thursday, December 20th, 2007. We had seven people, and it was a blast! I looked up how to run a double-elimination tournament, so each player is guaranteed at least two games. We had so much fun that it has become a weekly event at McGrath's. We even managed to make it through the holidays without missing a week!

So if you play Cribbage, or even if you don't, I'd like to invite you, dear reader, out to McGrath's this coming Thursday, January 17th, 2008, for our fifth weekly tournament! Don't worry if you can't make it on such short notice: it looks like we'll be having cribbage tournaments for quite some time to come! We begin at 7:00 pm. See you there!