Contrary to Popular Belief, I Can Spell "Poker"

December 31, 2006 12:42 AM

he most interesting thing that's happened in the past few days is that I played poker at the Commerce Casino. I went with my cousin Noel, as I do every time I'm back out West.

We went on Friday night, and I had an excellent night. We were sitting at a table with players that seemed like they barely knew what the fuck they were doing. Noel got beaten by someone who had called a sizeable preflop bet, while not ona blind, with a 4-2 off suit. It was fucking disgusting. After the showdown, the guy looked at Noel and said something like "Sometimes I don't know why I call. I just go with my gut." It was all we could do not to kick his ass right there.

As for myself, I played pretty tight and it paid off. I ended up winning $245, making it my most successful night of poker ever. I was able to bluff people out a few times, and I was also able to make a few decent reads. That's good because making reads is, by far, the worst part of my game.

We went back Saturday night. Within the first hour at the table, I was up about $350. It was unbelievable. I was untouchable and could do no wrong. For one of my hands, I got dealt pocket aces. I raised preflop and got called. The flop was JJ6, rainbow. I raised big, thinking I had the best hand and could just take the pot down right there. The one other guy in the hand too his time, and with every passing second I became more sure that I had him beat. He finally raised me. I knew I had him beat, so I went all in. He folded and showed me pocket 4s. I have no idea why he was in the hand, really, but it was still awesome.

In the end, though, I wasn't able to maintain my huge high. I ended up losing the huge stack built up and ended up about $50 for the night, meaning that I was only up $200 for the weekend as opposed to almost $600 like I had been. But, honestly, it was a lot of fun, I learned a lot, and it was completely worth it.

Now I'm sitting around my parents' house waiting for the rest of the family to get here so that we can have some sort of huge New Year's dinner. I don't really know what they've been cooking, but there's a lot of it. I'm excited.

3 Comments

morenonesense said:

I miss gambling so much, at this point, I'd put money down on anything, even if I knew I was going to lose, just to do it. I've been trying to teach my girlfriend how to play. Yup.

January 5, 2007 2:46 PM

Ismael Tapia II said:

I consider both you and your girlfriend among my greatest friends, so please take this in the best way possible (and that goes for her, too, if she reads this). That ain't gonna work. I imagine that teaching her how to play poker would be analagous to teaching me how to do gymnastics. It's just not what we're built to do.

January 5, 2007 2:59 PM

антимаулнетизм расторопно said:

чисто антимаулнетизм

June 17, 2008 5:23 AM

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