March 24, 2005

  • Toeing the line…

    Derek hooked up the impromptu Sunday gamblethon.

    I took pictures late, after matty and liz busted out. Matty left, but liz, from the couch, would only pose her arm, there in the middle.

    These people cashed out with chips.

    An interesting night. Matty went up early off of, well me. There was a full house on the board and just i did not believe he had the higher full house, but alas, he turned over the jack for the win. Then he didn’t believe john and Thayer and lost twice before anyone else, not buying back in. He’s a steady player, but sometimes gets cowed and puts down a hand, and sometimes calls when he should not. But he sure took me out with his jacks over nines.

    Liz fading away has become tiring. I have seen her win a 200 dollar pot tourney, going all the way down, but in the last three weeks she’s been playing sloppy (and getting unlycky, too I guess).

    Rutkoff, nearing the end of the game and only having the money he put in, complained that he was tired of just leaving even; he wanted to win. Its better than losing, I said, but rutkoff was not convinced, until he lost it all, boo hooing his uneven leave.

    Thayer betrayed his even keel way by swinging up and then down, losing to john on a close kicker loss. And then kept it even and cashed out only down 2 dollars.

    Of course, I went down fast against matty, but I tripled up on two tens when matty himself didn’t believe me. I lost all of that, and some of my buy back, and then grinded it out, winning a lucky pot, going all in a bunch, muscling john out of another, and catching Derek on a bluff, I left up one dollar. Unlike Aaron, ill take even any day.

    Derek left with 40 in his pocket, playing that calm non abrasive game. No wait, in this game, he straddled along all game, until the end, when he was either catching the cards of his life, or playing excellent poker. He raised preflop allot, and usually won on the flop with another bet. Over and over, never showing a hand. Well done.

    And john. Swinging pendulum john. He played well. Got a bit lucky, but once he got his stack, he managed to hold on to at least eighty percent of it.

    We had dinner before the ZX show…

    …and he talked about trying to curb his big swings. When he wins allot, he doesn’t want to lose it, so he has set up a system of goals. He writes down a couple of guidelines for how he is going to play, and it seemed to work this time with: win the hands you play, and cash out if you go over sixty.

    I remain, 115 dollars up on my friends money.