Party @ Vikrams

From: Anakal, Yash
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 11:54 AM
To: Yella, Sridhar (CONT); Reddy, Ramesh (CONT); Mahankali, Vikram; Raj, Suraj (CONT); Bandlapalli, Seshikanth [CONT]; Meenakshisundaram, Anand (CONT); Padaki, Anil (CONT); Macherla, Sunil (CONT); Singh, Subir
Subject: RE: Poker night

Weekend Update :

We had a lot of no shows, which was expected. We know there are a lot of dependency relationships in who comes and who does not.. Suraj and Family not coming (legit reasons), caused Yella's to skip the night.
Sheshi, as he had communicated earlier, had a guest who was too tired to party. Something tells me that Sheshi's no show is again linked to Suraj not coming (not completely sure though). YesNoYesNoSubir ended up NOSubir..
And lastly, SUNIL.. Of course, he did not give any reasons for the no show… Unrelated to this discussion, heard that the weather in NOVA was better than in RIC. ;)

Winners & Losers:
Doc - As predicted before the night, he won some $$ on Friday (~$60). With the Yella's not around someone else had to win. Lost all in Poker but made his money in the first round of Rummy. Thanks to Ajoy, almost half of the pot was funded by him. Won a lot of money in this round, coz Ajoy pulled a "Ramesh" in this round (i.e. rejoined, and again rejoined, and rejoined.. and eventually lost).

Ajoy - Against my predictions, he was the biggest winner of the night.. Won $25 in poker and had it all in the second round of Rummy. Totally he went home ~$80 richer.

Vikram - Even though he won some money in poker, he ended up being a looser (~$30).. Meager amount in Doc's standards ;) ..

Andy - "The biggest loser" @NBC - Was not in his strings. Without the Yella's around, he was the favorite, but ended up in the red ($48).

I Started off good in poker by winning $8.. Got my $20 back in the first round of Rummy, but lost $20 in the second round. At the end of the day ended up in the red ($12).

Looking forward to the next one..

Yash