March 7, 2005

  • Skip skip skip…

    It’s been nothing but poker, which makes me nervous, but doesn’t really stop me.

    Orson and Emily hosted in grand style in a delicious bunker west village style. You reach grand when you have a piano greeting you at the entrance, and velvet as your felt.

    (piano, regrettably unpictured)

    Started smallish, but came to include all sorts of chaps.

    The chips kept pretty spread at first, until Derek took a lead. Aaron played his reserved aggressive style only to lose the lucky charm and fall at the hand of the river too many times. Liz slowly faded away at the end of the table with unlucky not-quite-good-enough-hands and a few times when she wanted to keep people honest. Emily called too much, not pulling the trigger to defend when I think she could have pulled it off. Noah, new to this ring but also a wesleyanite (and goalie on my newly signed up Chelsea piers team) played wild to my eyes, too much of a calling station. I tried to teach him a lesson with ace ten after the ten hit as top pair, only to lose to his king five when his majesty spiked the turn; but he lost it all later on so today he played too impulsively. Althea came in late, refused to play for a bit, finally bought in, won some hands after showing some patience, then lost it somehow, I don’t even remember.

    Orson stayed steady after a bad beat for the rebuy, only to spurt right at the end with a chain of good cards the likes of which I have not seen in a while.

    Could it be related to his early poker position of power…

    That he later helped earn him this…

    And most of it came out of Derek, and yes me, but mostly Derek who left minus two and wouldn’t even pose with his eight-dollar cash out.

    I kept it steady. I had a pretty big stack for a tad, but I could not hold on to it because I play too many flops, and hold on too much when I shouldn’t (though that has also won me pots with ridiculously low hands). Like when I had aces to orsons full house, which cost me about twenty five dollars. I made some back, but still.

    I did come out plus twenty.

    Hours spent on poker Thursday tthrough Friday: 22.

    Tally as of now: up 195. Oh yeah.

    God bless you all.