Poker at Yossi's

Last night we played poker at Yossi's. Adrian, Gary and Nik were there, as was Ariel, making a guest appearance. I don't know what Yossi made Gary and Adrian for supper.
We played poker. It was quite nice. We hummed Christmas carols in what can only be described as a very very twatty way. Jona would definitely have enjoyed it.
By the end of the evening it transpired that, like other things in his life, Gary's celebrations at being the IPK 2007 champ were premature. Yossi overtook him to finish the year 360 shekels up. However, Gary remains the highest weekly average winner. If only he'd been at poker more often (30 times, to Adrian and Rafi's 41).
So that's that for the year. We look forward to the return of the travelling Kings in 2008.

Poker at Gary's

Last night poker was played at Gary's. These were the remarkable scores:

Eric: -19.5
Yoss: -13
Ariel: +12.5
Gazza: -69.5
Rafi: +163.5
Adrian: -78.5

Rafi apparently had the nuts from beginning to end, which makes his achievement at breaking the all-time biggest win somewhat less impressive. Note that the previous record was only set last week!

Rafi claims to have shafted Gary royally on the last hand, when having flopped a straight, Gary couldn't force his opponents out. Gary also burnt some popcorn.

Because he finished the night top of the yearly chart, Gary got to wear a crown:

And now here is a special bonus chart. It shows each King's average weekly wins or losses.

Poker at Adrian's

Last night all of the Israeli Poker Kings played poker at Adrian's house. I don't know what was for supper, but I do know that it involved chips and humus.

The poker itself was quite eventful. Jonah broke the most money won in a single night since records began record with a whopping 149 shekels. Rafi continued his impressive downward slump. Gary once more put a gap between himself and Yossi.

Upon Nik's arrival, he and Jona were shown the famous viral video clip, "Two girls, one cup" (I do NOT recommend that you watch the video). YouTube is full of clips of people watching said clip. Here is our contribution:

Adrian tried to get us into the Channukah spirit by singing naff B.A. songs: religious words to famous tunes. However, in the spirit of 2girls1cup, the Kings could not resist making up their own saucy lyrics to Oliver Twist's "Who will buy?". Much hilarity ensued.
It is possible that we played the last game of 2007 last night.
Scores on last nights doors were:
Jonah 149
Adrian 1
Gary 5
Nik -35
Eric -7.5
Rafi -32
Jona -26.5
Yoss -54

(Interesting fact: the Blogger.com website's built-in spell-check doesn't recognise the word "YouTube". This is surprising seeing as Google owns them both. Oh well.)

Poker at Jona's

Last night everybody except Yossi played poker at Jona's rather echoey house. Yossi was learning how to get killed while wearing a brand new effod and carrying a snazzy M-16. Jona served Thai-style chicken curry, which was delicious. Nik brought Salt and Vinegar Pringles, which were also delicious, but, surprisingly enough, contained lactose. Odd.

Poker started with an awful lot of noise and very little concentration. Eric was sending emails, Jona was being rude to his sister-in-law, Gary was trying to point out that the story in Nomi's Sleeping Beauty book wasn't accurate, Jonah shouted about it being OK that the World Series of baseball is open only to American teams. Eventually we imposed a silence rule and things calmed down a bit.

Nik told quite a hilarious story about the time he went to a restaurant and asked for breasts instead of a menu.

We ate jam donuts.

Rafi lost all his money, despite playing two hands blind. He didn't buy in for any more, which makes him a spoilsport. Eric lost 52.5 shekels, taking him 1.5 shekels away from the -400 mark for the year.

Jona was the big winner with 59 shekels.

The end of 2008 is nigh. I haven't decided whether to continue this year's graph or start another one, but if there are any graphs you would like me to produce based on this year's winnings and losings data, now is the time to suggest them.

Scores on last night's doors:

Gary 22

Nik 19.5

Jonah 32

Jona 59

Adrian -5

Eric -52.5

Rafi -75