Well, this week's poker was an evening of many firsts - first time in josey's fabulous tho' somewhat feng shui new pad, first time that gerry announced to the kings that he's fucking off to blighty, pistachio nuts were included with the bacon frazzles and onion rings for the first time, first time in about 3 years that azriel won some money, first time that jonah's legendary poker luck deserted him and some other interesting stuff that I can't remember. Food was - as expected from the new unterman kitchen - plentiful and delicious, tho' rayfel may have wished there was a little more for him to pack away in a doggy bag - funds may be running thinner than we thought at the zauer household if rayfel's slightly crazed signs of starvation were anything to go by.

We played a few rounds of the two card game and a few rounds of the one with four cards. Josey had a couple of lucky breaks when on one occasion with a shitty hand he took half the pot where the other 3 players with nuts hands shared a sixth each; and on another occasion when he almost forced jonah to change his underwear when he beat jonah's perfectly respectable hand in the two card game with a running flush - crikey! That was pretty wild i can tell you.
Scores on the doors:
Gerry: -27.5
Rayfel: -75
Jonah: -75
Rico: - 51
Joseph: 135
Azriel: 49.5
Adrian with a huge and skilfully won 44

oh and one more first - first time we've seen the use of a semi-colon in the blog; let the good times roll...

Poker at Gary's

He is, officially, the luckiest bastard in the whole of the poker playing world. I am, of course, referring to Jonah who won some outrageous hands this week at Gary's. He screwed Gary, he screwed Adrian, and I'm sure he screwed everyone else at the table at some point during the evening. Not that I'm bitter in any way, shape, or form. I'm beginning to side with Adrian and believe that it is purely a game of luck.

Ariel may also agree as he continued his fabulous losing streak. It's not that he has yet to win this year. It's more the fact that when Ariel loses, he loses spectacularly. His average loss currently stands at 65 sheks. Skill? Pah! Ariel has just been incredibly unlucky.

Anyway, everyone enjoyed burgers, chips, onion rings and baked beans. Munchies and drinks were a bit on the poor side - for future reference more than one bottle of diet coke is required. Whilst Ariel was the big loser, "Lucky" Pransky was the big winner and has closed the gap to Eric to less than 200 sheks.

Next week poker is at Yossi's new pad. He will let us know where we can park in the vicinity.