tnp

for those who don't know, tnp = tuesday night poker.

last night once again reaffirmed that we are a bunch of degenerate gamblers. after playing two hours of solid no-limit holdem, i made a couple of mistakes that suddenly found me down to the felt. mistake one was trying to get too tricky when i flopped bottom two pair and tried to slow play. and when i say slow play, i mean ice age glacial movement slow play. unfortunately by slow playing both the flop and turn, i allowed MN to catch runner-runner two pair which of course beat my sixes and twos. and no, i don't usually play 62o but i was the big blind.

and once again the perils of playing 5-handed (and then 4 handed when NC called it a night) is that the game could break at any moment and did when RL busted out and left us with only three. of course, RL decided to leave at the moment when i had just taken my second beat and was stuck $40.

but the night was young and we handn't played for two weeks so MN and i weren't ready to call it quits if we had anything to say about it. CB decided to be the bank on a little blackjack and i happily bought in for another $10. i proceeded to burn through my $10 and MN quickly lost all of his poker winnings to an amazing run of cards for the house. CB caught 21 so often that if we were at a casino the house would have been pulling up the tape. CB busted both of us out when we both held 20 and he hit to catch the perfect card and make 21. undaunted, we both bought in and i was able to run $30 up to $80 to break even for the night. the biggest hand was when both MN and I doubled down on 11's and CB busted.

until next tuesday.