I cooked the inaugural package of bacon from the Bacon of the Month Club (thanks Al!) this weekend at the I Had Outs tourney. Because Dawn’s cash games are known as the Crackhouse games, I thought I’d call the games with bacon the Smokehouse games.

The first package was an applewood smoked bacon from Vande Rose Farms. This thick, meaty bacon was a good combination of sweet and salty. More chewy than I like it (due to these hearty slabs) but very tasty nonetheless.

Photo courtesy of Dawn Summers

Cooking it up in Dawn’s kitchen:

Photo courtesy of Dawn Summers

and, they’re playing right in our little ‘ol neighborhood along with the debut of Superdragon (featuring Molly of Lido fame).

Congratulations to the Rooster:

who won my bacon-y bounty:

when he busted me out of the WPBT Winter Gathering tournament in 12th place. He went on to win the tournament and maintain New York pride after the second-to-last New Yorker, Pauly, busted out in 11th place.

I had a ton of fun meeting so many new folks as well as hanging out with old friends. I look forward to the next gathering!

I’m heading to Las Vegas tomorrow and Matt from Ear Farm has kindly created a mix for me. I’m happy he chose The Dead Kennedys instead of Elvis!

photo courtesy of infohostels.com

Check out Ear Farm for even more mixes - the chemistry mix is fun!