Poker

Yesterday we had another poker night. I hosted this one. We had a good turn out. We started out with 7, and then Thomas came late and took the spot of Brian and Amy who left after they lost. We tried a tournament first. No re-buys so the game went fast. It ended up being john and I vying for first and second place. To get everyone into another game quickly we decided to split the pot instead of playing for a first and second place. That got me $60 (then you factor in my buy in I walked away with $40).

After the tournament we played a cash game. It was fun. I was up, then down, then up, then down allot, then up allot. I ended up loosing $30 to john only to win that and more from him and rich right at the end of the game. John and I where the big winners of the night. Rich was up for most of the cash play, but ended up slightly up when we where done.

It was fun. I am going to try and schedule another game in a week or two.

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We actually got together to play poker again today. I fared better than I did last week. I still didn’t win, but I was back to my old self. I had $40 on the table and came away with $38.50. Not bad when only 2 other people out of 8 walked away with anything. And only one of them had a profit. It was a John taking everyones money night. I was down for a while and happy that I came back in the end. If people would play hands I stayed in on in the end I would have had a profit. I had 2 (count them 2) full houses near the end and no takers even after I tried to slow play them. I won’t complain about losing a buck fifty. To me that is a wash.

I personally don’t like the style of play that went on. Everyone seems to bully people out of the game before the flop. John does it, and since he is effective at it everyone seems to emulate it. With 2 cards you have nothing, don’t bet $3 and before the flop and then bet nothing after it. It makes you look like a dick. That is just my opinion.

Overall it was a decent night. Hopefully we can play again before December!

Yesterday at Brian’s request I got a last minute game of hold-um setup. We did it at my place. We had a good turn out. I think 8 showed by the time we were done. I lost $40. I have never lost when we don’t play tourniment. I broke even, or won but never flat out lost all my money I played with. It felt weird. it was also weird not being able to leave in shame since it was my apartment. It wasn’t that bad actually, but I would have liked to play a bit more.

We all want to get together more regularly, but who knows who will take it upon themselves to schedule it. Even with the loss I had a good time.

I missed a poker game last night due to my sleeping. I know it is kind of sad. What I am I going to do if I have a bad head ache? Jayson said he won big. That makes me think the people he played with were not that good, but he said they were decent. When we play with people from work, he usually doesn’t do that well.

I hope to play next time. Now I have to tell John why I didn’t show up. I tried to leave him a message, but I don’t think he got it. Cannot really help falling asleep due to exhaustion and a migraine, sorry. They did have 7 players so I don’t feel so bad.

Tonight we had another poker night at my house. We had a nice turn out of like 9 people. I had a good time. I ended up for the night, but not by much. I won the next to last hand with a big win for me. But I lost most of the winnings on the last hand to John. We were both going for the straight, he had Jacks and three’s. I had Kings & Queens. We both shared a pair of tens. He went all in on the turn so we flipped our cards up. The only way he could win the hand would have been if he got a 3 on the river. Well he got it. Dam lucky hand. If I won that hand I would have been a big winner for the night, but I ended up barely breaking even, but at least I broke even. Well if you count the cost of hosting I was down for the night, but the ability to goto bed after everyone leaves and not travel home was worth the cost difference.

Jon is going back to school this weekend so I don’t know when Dan will schedule another game. Now that I have my own set of chips I can always call one though. Maybe the week after I get back from vacation?

Thursday we played poker. I got luck (man did I make dangerous moves) and ended up winning big (for me). Dan won more than i. In the first hand I took all of Jon’s & Miguels money. We all went all in on the second dealt hand.

In the end I took allot from Jon and Miguel. Dan took some of his brothers money back from me, and I ended up quadrupling my investment in the game.

I did talk some smack. I am sorry for those affected, but it was mainly aimed at Jon, Dan & Miguel. Dan & Miguel is ok to talk smack to, and Jon is related to Dan so I guess it is ok too. Everyone else I was nice to! We had a good time. We didn’t’ play tournament style like we did last time. It was just cash in and cash out when you wanted.

Jon, & Miguel lost big. Dan won big. Cari, barely broke even. Danny said he drank his losses in beer. Jay lost a bit, and Manor didn’t do so well. Joey lost a bit, but not too bad. I think we all had a good time. There were some interesting hands, that is for sure.

Started the day off with a hair cut. Then I headed down to help my friend Cari finish moving her stuff into her new apartment. My timing was off. Due to traffic I beat (she called when she thought she was 30 minutes away) her to her place. I met Karen there and we ended up waiting for like 30 minutes for Cari, Jayson & Gretchen to show up. It was funny that we ended up waiting to unpack her car longer than it actually took to unload stuff. Because there was a bunch of us, and she didn’t have much stuff, we were done in like 20 minutes. Note to sell, my original thoughts on never living in a walk up are still valid. Don’t even think about it!

After moving stuff in we went out for pizza. I mean she does live in Little Italy. For me I then headed off to the office to kill about 2 hours until I had to show up at Dan’s for poker. I got some light work in, and Jayson met me there. He had to drop off his fish to our office tank. We then both headed over to dan’s.

Turns out most people couldn’t make it to the poker night so we only had 5 people (4 if you consider jayson didn’t want to play and just came to hang out). We played a bit but not the typical tournament style. Dan lost. I made $2, Dari broke even, and Billy (Dari’s brother) took all of Dan’s money. We had a good time for a small game. Jay brought Pierre, so he and Cooper played the whole time. Watching 2 dogs play is always funny!

Saturday I went to play poker at Dan’s. Conventional wisdom said I should stay home and continue to rest. I should have, but I wanted to get out. We had a total of 8 players, many of them new to the group. Even though I was tired I figured a few hours of playing was ok. When I spoke to dan we both joked (but weren’t really kidding) that if I got tired I could just bet stupid and get out. That is exactly what I ended up doing. I was faring ok, and wanted to stay in until we broke jayson out of the game. Unfortunately I was getting tired and didn’t want to continue to concentrate. So I took a hand that I would normally never play and put a bunch of money in. Joe won. Then I did it again on the next hand with nothing and Joe won again. It gave him the ammunition (along with some other fantastic winnings from right before then) to come in second place. I kind of regret loosing, but I didn’t have the strength to continue, so I don’t feel that bad about getting out. Jenn eventually won the tournament. I have no idea how that happened, but congrats to her for doing it.

Other players included Joe, Dan (who even being tired I still managed to stay in longer than), Heather, Ed, Jayson, Jenn, myself and Dari’s cousin. Dari came by but didn’t play. I had a good time, but I should have left when I got out of the game instead of hanging out for a while afterward.