ER took off early. She’d been running bad all night and threw all her chips into a pair of sixes against my pocket tens.

    This week  Cumulative  Average
CR    -$1.20      +$0.00     $0.00
EM    +$0.30      -$5.80    -$0.45
ER    -$5.00      +$9.30    +$0.78
JB    -$1.45      -$8.00    -$0.67
JC    +$4.00     +$18.50    +$1.54
Me    +$3.35      -$3.25    -$0.25

Another up week for me. Taking ER out significantly helped my stack, but I also got decent cards, took pots when I could, and kept my confrontations to a minimum. That said, toward the end of the night JC called my preflop raise, flopped a set, and turned a boat. Curse those big pocket pairs. That hand alone cost me many big bets, and had I not been so drunk determined to see a showdown, I would have ended up the big stack for the night.

Might I add that drinking and winning makes me cocky and abusive. I take great amusement out of it, but it’s probably not good for my table image.

JB doubled up on the last hand of the night when he flopped two pair and riverred a boat. If CR hadn’t challenged him on that one, he would have ended up for the night.

I think Wil Wheaton said that Krieger said something about one bad hand ruining your night. It was certainly true last night at the weekly game, and yesterday evening in PL online. I dropped $150 in PL in four or five consecutive sessions. What kind of fool does that? Me, I guess. I earned some of it back after the weekly game in 1/2 and NL, but still ended down $120 for the day, which wipes out my gains from Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. I hate starting over.