Poker at Nik's

Last night we played poker at Adrian's pad, though Nik was the financial backer for the evening's food - fried veal sausages with baked beans and chips. Crisps were not lacking. Nor was drink. But it was a bit dark.

Adrian fucked up a deal and called a low when there wasn't one. Other than that he just had bad luck.

Nik folded only to see a running flush materialise. He had forgotten the golden rule of poker: never fold a running flush. He shall not be so foolish in the future.

Eric managed to turn around his 50 shekels earnings and end the evening on a loss. Yossi won so much early on that his late losses made no difference. Jonah will be disconcerted by the sight of Yossi's line creeping up towards his own. Everyone else is bumbling around the zero mark. "Everyone else" did I say? I should have said, everyone apart from Adrian who dropped below 550 shekels this week, despite last week's slight upturn in fortunes.

We discussed supermarket packaging.

Scores on the doors:

ade -6.5

nik -21

ariel -28

eric -26.5

yoss 47

jerry 0

rafi 35

Poker at Adrian's

Yossi submitted this report:

Poker was at Adrian's last night. After we had finished eating saussies and beans (Adrian was inspired by rafi's previous week's culinary
achievements) Adrian regaled us with stories of other types of eating.
We never knew Adrian took bodily hygiene so seriously.

Apart from that, Adrian spent most of the night sighing, moaning and cursing his bad luck (not his bad skill). Ariel's full houses beat Yossi's full houses twice in a row, Rafi had 4 2's and managed to make 7 sheks, and gary re-discovered his lost brilliance.

Scores:

Adr -79
ariel -30.5
raf -25.5
gaz 71
yos 64

Poker at Rafi's

Yossi provided this posting:

This week Adrian came to the stark realisation that poker is simply a game of luck, and that he didn't have any. He blamed Jonah for this, and Jonah took full responsibility and accepted a thrashing from Adrian for Adrian's losses. Jonah was also responsible for Adrian missing a full house in his hand. Other trivia from the evening included Jonah realising that he had the winning hand while the money was being divided, rafi stealing money that was not lawfully his, a stunning rendition of "Ken Lee", the redneck song, by Rafi, and a lesson in statistical analysis by the likes of Michael Jackson, Aqua and Meatloaf.


Beans and saussies were served in abundance - we had a gas.

Scores:

Yossi 73
jonah 56
eric -31
ariel -12
raf -13adr -72

Poker at Jonah's

Last night poker was at Jonah's. He was there, as were Yossi, Rafi, Eric, Gary, Ariel and Adrian. Jonah reported:

"Hot dogs and chips were served with an abundance of snacks and drinks (there were leftovers of each).
I remember Yossi burping something that smelled more like a fart, and the term “rip you a new asshole” was used repeatedly."

Adrian did a new f&ck up: he dealt from the bottom of the pack face up. Well done, Adrian. Some people are beginning to suspect that you plan these f$ck ups in advance. Don't take that as a suggestion.

Although I wasn't there, I'm pretty sure that last night was a good night for poker. Lots of people won or lost quite a lot. Gary lost all his money (again). That alone has to make the evening good. Adrian is creeping slowly but inexorably towards the -400 mark.

Yossi - -46
Raf – 78.5
Ariel - 35.5
Eric - -38.5
Jonah - 54
Adrian - -8.5
Gary - -75