I got my arse handed to me at poker tonight

[WilliamPitt]

Not bad, was down $60 and made back $20, but damn, it took all night.

I do poker at my house every Friday night. Friendly game, $20 buy-in, dealer's choice, mostly Hold-em or stud games because we usually have more than five players, no limit but never out of hand, and everyone is friends.

Tonight was a neat table. It was me, a professional chef, a bouncer, an accountant, an Mac repair guy, a bartender, a physicist, and a sculptor. The accountant and sculptor got blown out early, the bartender had to leave to chase a girl, and the rest of us played until just a few minutes ago.

Great group of guys, but GOD DAMN, the cards were not there for me. I had a dozen great hands that went nowhere after the flop. We played a lot of Omaha tonight, (no hi-lo, just the four cards with the best two), and I think flushes won ten or eleven times. None of them, of course, were mine.

No wild cards. Of course.

Meh. I'll get 'em next week.

Night all. :toast:

[johnnie]

1. Well, thanks for inviting me

x(

I sat by the phone with my chips in my hands all week too.

[WilliamPitt]

2. Phone poker from Cleveland.

A novel idea. :)

[johnnie]

3. I could have taken a cab

Or rode my moped.

[WilliamPitt]

6. If you can afford a cab from Cleveland

I definitely want you at my table...to my left. ;)

[SeattleGirl]

4. Can I phone in from Seattle?

Always wanted to be part of a regular poker night.

[WilliamPitt]

5. Sure

I'll get one of those desktop speakerphone things and we'll be all set.

[SeattleGirl]

7. Cool! So, when I win it all, will you promise to send me the money?

You can keep enough to buy everyone a round.

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. Next time, bluff with an Oklahoma

Anybody who knows what an Oklahoma is takes the pot.

[Broken_Hero]

9. not bad

last time I had a poker night I was out 60 myself. In that game a friend of mine got trip kings twice in the game, and beat out my trip jacks/queens, in two seperate hands, and I was betting the farm just about, and I got caught badly...but I had to push it...:) 5 card stud...

[WilliamPitt]

10. I had trip aces one hand tonight

and lost to a straight on the last card. It was that kind of a night.

[Broken_Hero]

11. I know the feeling...

losing with trip jacks, and queens in 5 card stud is rough. When I have nights like that I just assume its my "turn" to pay in...:)

[mduffy31]

13. I can not tell you how many damn times in my home game

that has happened to me. I don't even like getting pocket aces because I know that whoever I am playing with will bust me on them.

[Joe Fields]

18. I play Texas Hold-em every day of the week.

Mostly tournaments, but I play in cash games from time to time.

[Robeson]

12. Rookies...

...come down here sometime son. We'd love for you to put you're money in the pot.

[johnnie]

15. Let me guess

Not only is the south the only ones who know how to make the best chicken, make the best beef BBQ, make the best "down home cooking", have that "southern hospitality", know their football better than all others, treat their men and ladies right, have the best beer and love their country more, now they are the only ones who really know how to play poker? We fuckin' yanks don't know shit.

[Robeson]

16. Well, that's a mouthfull. I wouldn't say all that, so I guess you....

...guessed wrong. But we have some gamblers down here who would welcome fellow gamblers...:-)

But if you want to vent on the South, go ahead. Makes no never mind to me... :hi:

[Joe Fields]

17. Everybody thinks they know how to play. But like Mike Sexton says,

"No Limit Hold-em takes ten minutes to learn, and a lifetime to master."

[benny05]

14. All kinds of poker?

Black jack? hold-em?