My memory’s going fast. If I don’t post these things the night of or the day after, I forget anything of significance. At least I can post the night’s results:

JC +$4.70
ER +$6.40
CR +$2.80
PC -$6.05
JB -$10.00
EM +$2.15

Oh, I do remember this: I played a couple hands blind, calling, betting, and raising without knowing what I had. One of these went well and the other went very badly. That would explain a large part of the loss of my first buy-in. On some other hands I felt like calling down to the showdown to possibly suck out a win on the river. Both strategies were half-intended to tilt the weekly game and half-intended to stave off boredom. Sadly, the game remained untilted and somewhat uninteresting.

I went back to boring play with the second buy-in and didn’t get much of a chance to make back anything with the hands I was dealt. Ah well.

ER and JC are the only ones in positive territory among the regulars. JB runs the risk of overtaking EM for the greatest cumulative loss.

It’s been over a month since our last home game.

JC +$6.30
ER +$13.70
CR -$10.00
PC -$5.00
JB $0.00
EM -$5.00

Yep. Lost all my chips on two hands in the last half-hour: ~$2 in a QQ vs. KK match, and ~$4 in a 93 vs. A3 match on a 3238J board. For whatever reason, JC refused to cap every street with his A3 (why be satisfied with 3 bets when you can have 4?), so I threw him my remaining thirty cents at the end of the night. Come to think of it, ER wasn’t doing that much raising with her KK either. I have a feeling the home game might be slightly sLP-P.

Of course, I was doing my best to be LA-A last night. I jammed most of the pots where I thought I was ahead, which probably drove some of the regulars nuts. For instance, in one early hand I had second pair and after CR checked the flop, I bet the max, and he called. He checked the turn, I bet the max, he called. An ace hit the river, he checked, and I checked along because I knew the fucker spiked his ace. He flips over his AQ and insisted he had to stay in because I had nothing, but I was ahead the whole way with my pair of nines. There’s no way he was getting odds to call a 25c bet into a 20c pot with overcards, but oh well. At least when JB makes unprofitable calls he admits it.

I only bluffed one hand last night, and this was early on. I had two cards that I was going to fold, but I was curious about the flop, so I raised preflop to see it, got one caller, missed the flop completely, bet the max, and took the pot when the preflop caller folded.

CR lost his buy-in twice, as you can see (though really he just ceded his remaining chips to ER after getting overly frustrated), but that came from a combination of letting others outdraw him by trying to build pots with draws on the board, and trying to represent hands with big bets. I think CR ought to consider playing no limit if he’s that fond of being tricky.

Oh, and JB brought presents for everyone. He gave me the Theory of Poker. So I guess I’ll have to buy something for him, too. Or just cancel next week’s game. Heh.

Another down week. I say again, I don’t even know why I play.

    This week  Cumulative
CR    +$0.05     +$2.10
EM    +$1.00     +$7.40
ER    -$3.15     +$0.75
JB    +$2.00     -$3.30
JC    +$2.00    +$10.95
Me    -$1.90    -$10.85

JB started off losing money steadily until a run of good hands put him into the black: a flopped boat, a rivered boat, a flopped straight (I had pocket kings), and more.

JC had his fourth consecutive positive session. He won one hand against CR when he riverred his boat: CR had made his boat on the turn with king-rag and check-raised on JC, JC called and got an ace on the river, which made his AQ good for aces full of rags. Sucks for CR, but then again, king-rag is a shitty hand to play.

EM continued her steady play, though she tended to get lucky with her straight draws completing on the turn or river.