1st ($ / 10pts): Ray "The Straight" Flowers
2nd ($0/ 7pts): Randy "Gerbilman" Ryan
3rd ($0 / 4pts): Brad "I Wait in The Weeds...And I POUNCE" ?
4th ($0 / 2pts): Mick "Buttball" McNulty
Low Stakes / 10 Players / 1 Table / 1:20 am
We've all been there. You sit...and you wait...9 and 2, fold....Q and 7, fold...over and over again - damn this game! Damn these cards!!
This was the other sort of night for me, exemplified by the first four hands which were all pairs, two of which hit, followed by either very strong starting hands or crazy shit that hits: "hope someone caught that King on the board, because my 4 3 just two-paired...oh, good they did."
Finally my propensity for playing and chasing straights, which I've been trying to control, paid off!!! I have no idea how many times I won the pot (sometimes a very significant pot) with a straight, but it happened enough that the table began to expect it. I also quaded a pair of eights early, but failed to really make them pay. Later in the evening Laura showed me how it's done, and got paid off nicely for her quad (also 8's).
Nearly everyone missed the 2+ hours of heads up between Ray and Randy, except those poor bastards who went out 3rd and 4th, of course (Mick and Brad). The heads up started with me at a significant disadvantage after some sketchy pushes when we were 3 up. I had around 30k, and RRyan had around 200k. Should be over soon, right? muwahahahahaha
The heads-up actually swung back and forth once I built a playable stack, and both of us were down under 50k at least twice before staging our improbable comebacks. The game finally ended in the 10th round (about 1:20 AM) when Randy caught his Q on the flop, and I caught both my 2 and my 3, which managed to hold up.
Significant events (per Randy Ryan):
-Randall had a shitload of kills (6 maybe?)
-6s were hot on the board all night.
-trips were no good for 3/4 of the night. Several people went out when their trips were cracked.
-Mick went out when I called her J-9 pre-flop all-in with Q-10 suited and caught 2 10s on the board.
-Brad went out when I called his J-10 pre-flop all-in with Q-10 suited. (Hmmm...) Nothing was caught, so the Q held up.
also per R2, and infinitely postable:
INSIGNIFICANT EVENTS, aka Stupid Conversation Points
-Aaron fought the notion he was a frat boy
-Mick could obviously make global fraternity assumptions based on UK's outmoded southern-genteel Greek society. SIDE NOTE: My dad went to grad school at UK. He was a TKE. Which is spurious, but interesting in a doesn't-have-any-bearing sort of way.
-AC/DC is amazingly not in Mick's top 10 bands of all time. Or even top 100.
-When Laura is the aggressor, she's no fun to sleep with. (Lee Nichols)
-It rained.
-Ken picked up a prostitute in his cop car on the way home. Purely for research reasons, I'm sure.
-Stacy P. was home naked while Brad P. was playing cards. Or something like that.
2nd ($0/ 7pts): Randy "Gerbilman" Ryan
3rd ($0 / 4pts): Brad "I Wait in The Weeds...And I POUNCE" ?
4th ($0 / 2pts): Mick "Buttball" McNulty
Low Stakes / 10 Players / 1 Table / 1:20 am
We've all been there. You sit...and you wait...9 and 2, fold....Q and 7, fold...over and over again - damn this game! Damn these cards!!
This was the other sort of night for me, exemplified by the first four hands which were all pairs, two of which hit, followed by either very strong starting hands or crazy shit that hits: "hope someone caught that King on the board, because my 4 3 just two-paired...oh, good they did."
Finally my propensity for playing and chasing straights, which I've been trying to control, paid off!!! I have no idea how many times I won the pot (sometimes a very significant pot) with a straight, but it happened enough that the table began to expect it. I also quaded a pair of eights early, but failed to really make them pay. Later in the evening Laura showed me how it's done, and got paid off nicely for her quad (also 8's).
Nearly everyone missed the 2+ hours of heads up between Ray and Randy, except those poor bastards who went out 3rd and 4th, of course (Mick and Brad). The heads up started with me at a significant disadvantage after some sketchy pushes when we were 3 up. I had around 30k, and RRyan had around 200k. Should be over soon, right? muwahahahahaha
The heads-up actually swung back and forth once I built a playable stack, and both of us were down under 50k at least twice before staging our improbable comebacks. The game finally ended in the 10th round (about 1:20 AM) when Randy caught his Q on the flop, and I caught both my 2 and my 3, which managed to hold up.
Significant events (per Randy Ryan):
-Randall had a shitload of kills (6 maybe?)
-6s were hot on the board all night.
-trips were no good for 3/4 of the night. Several people went out when their trips were cracked.
-Mick went out when I called her J-9 pre-flop all-in with Q-10 suited and caught 2 10s on the board.
-Brad went out when I called his J-10 pre-flop all-in with Q-10 suited. (Hmmm...) Nothing was caught, so the Q held up.
also per R2, and infinitely postable:
INSIGNIFICANT EVENTS, aka Stupid Conversation Points
-Aaron fought the notion he was a frat boy
-Mick could obviously make global fraternity assumptions based on UK's outmoded southern-genteel Greek society. SIDE NOTE: My dad went to grad school at UK. He was a TKE. Which is spurious, but interesting in a doesn't-have-any-bearing sort of way.
-AC/DC is amazingly not in Mick's top 10 bands of all time. Or even top 100.
-When Laura is the aggressor, she's no fun to sleep with. (Lee Nichols)
-It rained.
-Ken picked up a prostitute in his cop car on the way home. Purely for research reasons, I'm sure.
-Stacy P. was home naked while Brad P. was playing cards. Or something like that.
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