Poker at Gary's

Last night poker was at Gary's. I wasn't there so I don't know if anything amusing happened. Yoss sent me this email:

Jonah 56
eric 23
adr 3
yos -35
gaz -35
raf -12

It would appear, then, that the tables were somewhat turned last night.

Poker at Adrian's

Last night we played poker at Adrian's. In attendance were Adrian himself, Jonah, Yossi, Rafi's cousin Mark, Nik, Eric and Rafi. I arrived too late for food, but I'm told that Adrian served up some disgusting frozen quasi-schnitzel things with a low percentage of chicken contents, and a high percentage of crap. Crisps were served in plastic bags.

Eric joined us even though he had run a marathon but 24 hours earlier and had a very stiff love muscle. Yossi stared the abyss in the face (does an abyss have a face?), but rallied to end up the night's biggest winner. He trails 8 shekels behind Gary on our table. HOWEVER, he owes me two numbers for when we played at Gary and Jonah's (as do Rafi and Eric). If he doesn't give me those numbers soon I'm just going to guess wildly.

Adrian and Jonah seemed extremely pleased with their immensely laboured gag about me having the nut. Not a bad gag, all in all, but the giggling build up perhaps undermined its power somewhat. It's nice to know my goolies are a subject for discussion even in my absence.

Adrian mis-dealt, dealing in Elijah for one hand. But then I don't need to write that Adrian mis-dealt. We can take that as read from now on.

Mark carried on from last week's crazy betting practices, though this time it cost him money. He was also involved in a controversial last hand, where he could have taken three quarters of the pot but instead split it fifty-fifty with an unforgiving and ungenerous Nik. But a guy who plays loopy poker all night, saying that it's only money, doesn't deserve too much pity. Still.

Next week at Yoss.

Scores on the doors at the close of play were: Adrian -12; Eric -59.5; Jonah -1.5; Rafi 11; Jossie 101; Nik 33.5.

Poker at Jona's

Adrian sent me this mail:

The LOSERS:
Gerry Myers: -23
JP Cummings: -41
J Pransky: -16
Rayfel: -4
The CHAMPS:
AD: +14
Josey: +56 (remarkable given he was 100 down with about ½ an hour to go).
Mark Landis (Rayfel’s cousin): +13 (also remarkable).
(yes – it’s one shmek out, we know).
Yes indeed Nicolas, there was a game in the end. Jonathan went back to Raanana and raided his mother-in-law’s drawers, rustling up all manner of what once upon a time, you would find in the knobs and knockers section of John Lewis (Brent Cross). With each man provided with a bowl to contain his knick knacks, a splendid, if not somewhat surreal game was played. And we ate some delicious spag bol with thick spag – with no veggie poncers to spoil the show.

Rafi added: We discussed various body parts:

Jonah's son's 2 eyed snake

Poker at Rafi's

On Monday we played poker at Rafi’s. Present were Rafi, Jona, Yossi, Nik, and Adrian. I imagine Rafi served up a very tasty supper, but as I arrived after supper time I wouldn’t know for sure.
Nik was the big loser. Yoss was the big winner. Rafi did well too.
More than anything, though, Monday’s game was a masterclass in card dealing ineptitude from Adrian. It started when he turned the turn card before betting had finished, and then wanted to deal the river card before we’d managed to bet on the turn. But we can let that go. Next up was Adrian’s attempt to turn the 4 card game into the 5 card game. But you know what, we can forgive him for that too.
The best of all was when Adrian forgot to burn a card before dealing the final card on the table. Oh well, we said, we’ll carry on as is. Rafi won the pot. But then imagine Yossi’s anger when it turned out that the card that should have been dealt would actually have given him the full house! How we laughed. And especially Adrian, who found Yossi’s misfortune at his hands absolutely hilarious. Adrian’s punishment was to not be able to choose which game we were going to play when it was his turn to choose. He was suitably chastised (yeah right). Fortunately, Adrian finished the evening on a five shekel loss, so there is a small degree of justice in the world.
Jona made fun of Adrian quite heartlessly. And quite funnily too.

Poker at Jona's

On Monday poker was played at Jona's house in his sukkah. Present were Jona, Yossi, Gary, Adrian, Rafi and Jonah. I wasn't actually there, but I guess that Jona fell off his chair, Jonah make some comment in American that needed translating into real English, there was a fair amount of discussion about all kinds of sport, there was some nice food, drink, and nosh, and everyone had a lovely time. Apart from Rafi who last all his money, and that after losing his temper on email about people being tentative. Bet he wished he'd kept a bit quieter now.

Meanwhile, I'm still missing data from Rafi, Yossi and Jona, from when we played at Gary's and at Jonah's. Please provide, chaps.

Monday's scores in full were:
Yossi 23 up
gary 30.5 up
adrian 3 up
jona 34.5 down
jonah 43 up
rafi 75 down

The odd thing is that this is 10 shekels out. But who really cares?