Poker at Gary's

Last night poker was at Gary's. Rafi, Adrian, Eric, Yossi and Jonah were there. Ariel wasn't there because he was coming back from Australia. Jona wasn't there because he had somewhere else to be. Nik wasn't there because he didn't fancy the shlep to Modi'in.
Anyway, the form book was adhered to. Jonah won lots of money, Adrian lost some money (though not as much as usual).
I asked Yossi how come Jonah won so much money. This was his answer, which I quote without having asked his permission to do so: "He was lucky and had a big stack. Then he raised all the time and won a fair amount of money when people folded before the river".
Scores were:
Rafi 26.5
jonah 117.5
eric -9
adrian -23.5
gary -63.5
yos -48

Poker at Adrian's

Poker last Monday was played at Adrian's, on his new stolen-by-the-Chinese Burman wood table. Nice white chairs too, one of which was slightly spoiled by Yossi. Talking of Yossi, we saw his smooth stomach.
Adrian served spag bol. Plenty of drinks and low-cholesterol snacks too. Very grown up it was.
Adrian invented yet another f&ck up: putting the deck he was dealing upside down on the table so we could all see the bottom card. Very amusing it was.
The evening started with Adrian's 4 of a kind raping Rafi's top full house. Towards the end, Rafi raped Nik's top four a kind with his own nasty 4 of a kind. Rafi finished nearly 100 up, despite the earlier rapage.
Adrian lost all of his money. Nicholas lost nearly all of his. Eric wasn't far behind.
We played a game called 7 card stud 8 or something. 7 card stud with a low hand. Some liked it (Yossi), some didn't (everyone else).
Yossi walked into Adrian's glass sliding door when trying to enter the flat. What a complete and utter idiot! Doesn't he know you should open doors before trying to walk into the room?? It was so completely hilarious the way he just walked into a solid sheet of glass!!! We laughed and laughed. It was just brilliant and so funny. What a buffoon! Ha ha ha!
Next up, Eric and his slatty table and deck.
Scores were:
Adrian -75
Nik -62.5
Eric -59.4
Gary 34.5
Rafi 96.5
Jonah -4
Yossi "thinks he can walk through glass" Unterman 69

Poker at Eric's But Hosted by Ariel

Last night poker was at Eric's house though Ariel hosted. This is how Rafi described it for me:
"We polished off 3 roast chicken and mashed spuds. Drink and chips were quite sufficient
I got raped several times but fought back skillfully bravely to end the night even
Adrian didn't whinge that much but he did comment a lot on Jonah's luck
Yossi still can't tell the difference between Jona and Jonah
We lost a 10 shekel poker chip under the slats on eric's verandah"

Scores:
Eric +6
Jona +17.5
Jonah +59.5
Adrian +25
Rafi +0.5
Ariel -20.5
Gary -22
Yossi -66

Poker at Yossi's

Last night everyone except Ariel (who was swotting up for an exam, the swot) played poker at Yossi's. Yossi served spag. bol. (the new hot dogs and chips). There were seemingly unending supplies of Coke Zero. Nice crisps too.

But who cares about that? Last night was a crazy night of poker. How crazy? Well, Nik finished 72 shekels down, but actually did better than all the other people who also finished out of pocket! Two Kings (Yoss and Gary) finished over 100 shekels up!! The people who ended up down won five hands between them all evening!!! That's how crazy.

Just look at the graph! Gary has gone from being second bottom to 3rd in a few weeks. And Nik has gone from being 3rd to second bottom in just a few weeks. Jona seems to be the King with the steadiest keel, but then he has also missed more weeks than any other King. Which makes him somewhat more of a Knave, I think.

Adrian moaned about his lack of luck. Jonah taunted him mercilessly.

Jona told this joke: An Israeli and a Chinaman were talking. The Israeli said to the Chinaman, "How many people live in your country?". The Chinaman said, "Oh, about 1.3 billion people. And how many people live in Israel?", he asked. "Oh, about 7 million people, give or take". To which the Chinaman replied, "Really! What hotel do you live in?"

(Really crazy) scores from last night:

Jona 43.5

Yossi 123

Gary 134.5

Jonah 30

Nik -72

Eric -96

Adrian -90.5

Rafi -72