texas old 'em

tonight we're having the second annual 24 person $20 buy in texas hold 'em tournament at my house and let me tell you how excited i'm not. at first, i was the biggest poker instigator. now that i have about $40 to my name and this new trend is getting really old really fast. last year at the tournament they started at 9:00 and ended at 8:00 in the morning. it was really pretty annoying if you wanted to go to bed. drunken young adults with sunglasses on presume they have the God-given right to be loud and obnoxious. don't get me wrong - this is not to say that if one of my friends paid for my buy in...i would be there. that's right. i would sell out. i talk a big game, but when it comes down to it, it's all about the benjamins, baby. right?