All in on a Saturday night

So the first ever Poker Party at the Patterson house (how's that for alliteration) was an all round success - lots of people trying it for the first time, lots of fun, and the luckiest Australian in the world (before he retired). Brecke ended up the winner (at 2.45am), Napoleon Dynamite made a brief but memorable appearance and Neil decided to play it close to his chest and call when he had 4 of a kind...

The one thing I still haven't worked out - how come no matter how much you drink and how much you tell your friends in advance there's no need to bring any drinks, you always end up with more alcohol at the end of the night than the start.......

And does anyone apart from Fatima read this thing??? Somehow I doubt it, but I'm not throwing in the towel like Nixta just yet.