Poker at Jonah's

On Monday we played poker at Jonah's place. Jonah was there, as was Eric, Jona (briefly), Adrian, Gary and Nik.
Jonah cooked spaghetti bolognese and it was very tasty. Pepsi drinks were served. The crisps were plentiful and diverse in the flavours. Well done Jonah!
Jona arrived just in time to eat, and left very shortly after that. Something about his daughter hitting her head and vomiting. He gets +5 points for parental concern but -20 points for ditching his poker mates so early. So the whole affair leaves him 15 points down. Shame on him.
Adrian invented a new f*$k up. It's hard to believe that there are any left, but he seems to conjure them from thin air. This time, while we were playing Omaha Hi-Lo, he proudly explained to us that although he could have called the straight f*&k up, he realised it was actually a f!£k up. Instead, he said, puffing out his chest with pride, look at my flush! By now you will have realised there was no flush. There were only two diamonds on the table.
A more minor f^ck up was dealing cards to six people when there were only five of us around the table. That can be forgiven.
Eric won lots of money and Nik lost lots of money. Jonah won some money. Jona lost a bit of money before scarpering off. Gary lost a little bit of money, and Adrian lost a little bit more money.
It might interest you to know that every time Adrian has played poker this year he has lost on average 39 shekels. It might also interest you to know that the gap between Jonah and Adrian is a whopping 1092 shekels.
Scores were:
Eric 79
Jonah 20
Jona -20
Adrian -10.5
Gary -10
Nik -61

Poker at Ariel's

Last night we played poker at Ariel's. Yossi was in real miluim and Jona was in kind of miluim and Gary was in London. However, because my cousin Simon came (of whom more later) we were seven Poker Kings. Ariel served chicken and vegetables. He had as many bags of crisps as a supermarket. Plenty of fizzy pop too.
Predictably enough, Adrian lost nearly all his money. I've posted an updated chart of his winnings and (mostly) losings this year. Of the 15 times he has played poker, Adrian has been down 11. He has broken the -600 mark for the year.
My cousin Simon did very well indeed, taking 50.5 shekels back to England with him. Once again I apologise for having invited him and I'll vet any future guests better in the future. The young 'uns nowadays just don't know their place.
Jonah opened a lead over Yossi at the top of the leader board. Adrian can just dream of such lofty heights.
Adrian's latest f^ck up was to pick up the burnt cards instead of his own and hope to play them. How does he do it?
There was one absolutely hilarious moment when Nik (the cad) took some black chips from the metal box of chips we played with at Gary's last week and pretended to bet with them. Everyone laughed so much it took about fifteen minutes for play to resume. Everyone was high-fiving Nik and telling him how he is the funniest guy and how so very funny it was that he put chips from another set into the middle of the table. Definitely one of the all time poker highlights ever.
Other stuff happened but I don't really remember it.
Scores were:
Jonah 69
Simon 50.5
Nik 25.5
Rafi -8.5
Ariel -61
Eric -10
Adrian -65.5

Poker at Gary's

Last night we played poker at Gary's. I think I'm right in saying that we were lacking our two tallest players. Certainly our most Mancunian players.

Gary made some burgers on his Modiin BBQ (I think one comes free with every house in Modiin). There was plenty of fizzy pop and crisps.

We played no less than three different games last night, which is quite remarkable for us. There were no f%ck ups, to the best of my recollection. So what did happen last night? Not much. We played poker. Gary lost a bunch of money. Adrian won some money, bringing him above the -550 mark. Well done, Adrian! No huge winners or losers.

There was one particularly interesting thing about last night, though. See if you can work it out: The people who lost last night were Ariel (-19) and Gary (-43.5). The people who won money were Rafi (24.5), Adrian (7.5), Eric (12.5), Nik and Jonah (19 each). Have you worked it out yet? That's right, the winners actually won 20 shekels more than the losers lost. So what, you say, that's happened loads of times. True, I reply, but add: everyone went home with the right amount of money in their pockets! How does that work? What combination of idiocy must have occurred? This means that some people miscalculated their winnings or losses, and then some other people (or maybe the same people) miscalculated how much they were meant to take. Too late to do anything now. But it's, like, weird.