With all the RSVPs in we have the following for tomorrow night:
CONFIRMED
Nils
'Big Dawg' Luehrmann
Scott
'Tubes' Oliver
Jonathan
'Doc' Atkins
David
'Picasso' Gorton
Hank
'Bogie' Frankenberg
Jeff
'Captain' Blair
Robert
'Z' Lopez
Conrad
'Colton' Meub
David
'?' Hoffman
MIGHT
Linda
'Blondie' Luehrmann
Scott
'Wolf' Stephens
Stephen
'Red' Mulva
For you "Mights", don't be shy just because we already have nine confirmed. Not only do I have enough room to comfortably sit 10 players, but I can even expand the table to accommodate two games of 6 players each. In fact for that matter I also have the 8 player round poker table upstairs if absolutely necessary - and I should have enough chips for just about any number of players.
Speaking of poker tables, I've made some advancement in my plans for an expandable poker top for our dining room table.
I went fabric shopping today...
(had to slam down a beer after that to regain my manhood) 
and discovered a great material for not only the dining room poker table top, but also the folding table I plan on making later on.
I first was considering high quality felt and frankly I didn't like the look or feel on any of the samples I found. I was then recommended to consider some super soft suede material and most of those samples were all very nice, but then I started looking at velvet samples like that used in my chip case and really liked them! They had the best feel, and were all stretchable thus making a really nice fit to any table top surface.
Then I discovered that all of those fabrics, fine felt, suede, and velvet are dry clean only and would never survive a night with
'Tubes'.
When I brought up the importance that the material be able to be washed and not dry cleaned and that it must be a durable fabric it was then suggested that I consider a faux crushed velvet fabric and let me just say this... WOW!
The stuff is great. While not quite as nice a feel as real velvet, its a close second and is also stretchable. Most importantly it is supposed to be very durable and easily washed - that said... I'm still going to give Scott a sippy cup when he sits down at the table.
I thought I was going to only want a rich deep green fabric, but after seeing a sample of a golden crushed faux velvet fabric I was sold.
I still plan on buying a 1/4" or maybe even a 1/8" neoprene rubber mat to glue the fabric to, but in the mean time I wanted to find a quick substitute in order to give the table a padded feel to it.
I found a nice 1/8" neoprene foam mat meant for yoga (Harmony Pad) -
(yes, I had to slam down another beer after that acquisition as well - not just because I bought a yoga product, but because the product name sounded so much like a tampon product) 
I bought enough mats to cover the table, but even so I was not entirely impressed as the mats are not completely smooth like a rubber mat would be. Instead they have very small indents thus even with the fabric on top it made the table not feel as smooth as I would want. I bought a 6'x9' sheet of carpet grabber material that had a completely smooth sticky surface that allowed it to grab the fabric and keep it in place as well as grip onto the foam mat, but without the typically bumpy surface common among carpet grabbers. The result was actually quite good, but not enough to make me rethink my original plan.
Any way, so here is the end result for which those that attend tomorrow night will get to try out first hand
(click on any pic to enlarge):
