Friday Girls Night Out

My friend Kerry invited me to play the Friday night live game at the Moose.  I told her I was flat-ass broke and would have very little live game money until after the 1st of the year due to expensive house buying.  She told me she would loan me $200 with 60 days to pay so I went on down.

I had just moved from the third table to the second table when I got AK and hit AAAKK for the high hand.  It was just after 8pm and if it held until 10pm I would get $100.  I honestly didn't think it would hold, but it did.  I asked the floor for cash & paid Kerry back half what I owed her.  Sweet.

We were playing at the main game by then and sitting next to each other.  She unfortunately struggled and had to rebuy a couple of times.  I went on a bit of a rampage and got up to $525 at one point.  When it was 3am I decided to take my $310 and go home.  YAWN!!!  I gave Kerry the other $100 I owed her and still left with $210.  Sweet again!

One thing I love about Kerry is that she's a real trooper.  She texted me at 2:30pm on Saturday - "I stayed after you until 7am and guess where I am right now".  That's right.  She was playing at the Moose again.  Crazy woman!  I have about 20 years on her or I probably would have stayed too - LOL.

I'm Glad Some People Don't Know What They're Doing

Playing in the Sunday deep stack at the Crazy Moose, the blinds were 1,000-2,000 and I was having the worst run of bad luck ever.  I only had 1,500 chips left.  I looked at an ace and just tossed my chips in the middle.  I got three callers (not good) but after the flop (queen high) one of the callers pushed all-in and the other 2 folded.  As it turned out, this was the stupiest play of the day.  He had NOTHING except needing a gutshot 10 to fill his straight and my ace high held up keeping me in the tournament and infuriating the other 2 guys who were in the hand, both of whom would have knocked me out.  They gave him some verbal abuse for a while and I thanked him profusely. 

Two hands later my 6,000 chips and I were at the final table.  I doubled up again with A-2 of spades against 8-5 off suit (he "had to call" with his bigger chip stack).  I went on to take 2nd in the tournament ($420).  I may have won if I hadn't hit 2 pair on the river on the last hand because I may not have called my opponent's all-in with just middle pair.  He ended up hitting his straight on the turn.

Anyway, I appreciate this guy's bad play.  He didn't cash.  The poker gods were smiling on me.