Poker at Nik's

On Monday we played poker at Nik's. We=Nik, Eric, Rafi, Adrian, Gary, Jonah and Yossi. The non-vegetarians ate not enough sausages, slightly soggy chips, and inadequate amounts of nosh, including an odd humus snack. If it's any consolation, the veggie option was all that tasty either. Adrian drank three cups of lemon and honey tea and wore Etty's woolly hat all evening long.

Yoss was the evening's big winner, with Adrian being the only other player to finish with more money than he started the evening. He must be really good when he's healthy!

Comedy value was provided when Gary and Rafi decided to start playing blind. Having not won a hand between them in the first hour of play, they figured that they couldn't do any worse . But they didn't expect to do quite so well! The next 5 or 6 hands were won by people who didn't look at their cards until all five were on the table. One time, the fifth card was a diamond, and I said, oh, I bet Raf has got the ace high flush. And guess what? Raf had the ace high flush! Honestly!! We laughed and laughed. This kind of thing happened a few times.

Nik made the "I've seen Rounders" joke again. Boy is it a good one. I predict a long shelf-life for that one. Or at least until Nik sees Rounders.

Another thing that happened was that Eric took all his clothes off.

Here are the numbers from Monday night:

Adrian 53.5
Eric -21.5
Gary -33
Nik -14.5
Rafi -27
Yossi 85.5
Jonah -43

AND HERE'S A BONUS CHART!!!

This chart shows everyone's biggest win and biggest loss. Interesting things to note are:

1) Nik has won more in an evening than anyone else (131 shekels)

2) Jonah has lost more in an evening that anyone else (123)

3) The biggest losses incurred by Rafi, Jonah and Jona are bigger than their biggest wins

4) Remarkably, Gary has never lost more than 35 shekels in a single evening

(click the chart for a bigger version, obviously)

Poker at Eric's

Poker:

Raf +9.5
Ad +104
Jona +4.5
Ariel +1

Yoss- -62.5
Eric - 56.5

Summary:

This week, after almost 4 years of poker playing, Rafi gave away his "tell". It's pretty difficult to notice, and you'll probably miss it nine times out of ten even if you're paying attention, but when he has good cards he will fart thunderously, the room will fill up with a noxious odour and the walls and windows will shake from the aftershock for the next 10 minutes.

Suprised that we missed that one for so long....

Poker at Jonah's

Yossi sent me this fascinating and hilarious report on last night's poker:

Gary 25
yoss 34.5
raf -57
ads -35
eric 15
jonah 17.5

Poker at Yossi's

Last night, Yossi, Nik, Eric, Jonah, Rafi, Adrian and Gary played poker at Yossi's house. Yoss served up griddled sausages and chips. There were LOTS of crisps on hand. We sat at his enormous table.

We played lots of the four-card game, until the very end, when we played the two-card game, which enabled Gary to come from being quite down to being a little bit up. Yossi was the night's big loser, this time falling down the abyss rather than looking it fearlessly in the eye and overcoming it. Adrian was the big winner, but I think most people let him win out of sympathy for his imminent arse invasion.

I don't remember what we discussed during the game, which means it can't have been all that exciting. However, last night Nik was on scintillatingly amusing form. Who could forget the time he piped up, "I saw 'Rounders'"? Jonah and Rafi perked up like teenage pricks on the back seat of the bus and both asked, "Really?", as Nik knew they would. This enabled him to quip, "No", to general hilarity. Everyone seemed quite pleased with the practical joke involving his mate's mobile phone too. So well done Nik.

Ten shekels went missing at the end. Jonah was out of pocket. Quite a mystery.

We talked about where poker should be next week. Eric offered. It hasn't been at Eric's for quite some time, so maybe that's a good idea.

Scores were: nik 12.5; adrian 42.5; eric -12.5; rafi -6.5; jonah 21; yossi -51; gary 4.