Friday Night Poker!

Friday night my friends Jill and Christian host a poker tournament.  It's a $20 buy-in with rebuys for the first hour.  I head up there in the evening.  Its usually about 8-10 people, but tonight there are 13.  It doesn't go so well for me on all four tries.  After the tournament, we sometimes play a side game, which is just a cash game.  It is a dealer's choice anything goes type of game.  We play games that some of the player's kids made up even(I'm looking at you Chuck and Susan).  Tonight though, there are only about 6 that stayed for the side game, so it was mostly the great game of Pot Limit Omaha or Pot Limit Omaha Eight or Better which just means that half the pot goes to the best high hand and the other half goes to the best low hand.  I don't really like playing the high-low version as it is harder to win the whole pot.  In the side game we all buy in for between 10-20 dollars and it has a 25 cent ante every hand.

The side game gets started before the tournament is over and it is just Aaron, Jill, and me.  We play a few hands of PLO (high only since it is only 3 players) and I seem to have Aaron's number as I take off every pot I play against him.  After the tournament ended we get a few more players and we play some Around the World (it's like hold'em, except each person gets 5 cards, there are two flops, two turns and two rivers, and if you can make a A-5 straight you get half the pot), PLO 8 or better and a hand of 727.

It's getting late and most of the people have left.  It is just Aaron, Christian and me left.  I have about $55 in front of me by this time and Christian has around $19.  Aaron has around $40.  I'm dealing and I decided to play PLO and deal out the cards.  The action starts on Christian who opens to $.50.  Aaron calls without looking at his hand as he is prone to do.  It comes to me and I have AKKJ with the AK of spades, so I bet the pot which is $1.75.  Christian decides to also bet the pot which is $3.50.  Aaron calls and so do I.  The pot is $10.50.  The flop comes JT8 with two spades.  Christian bets the pot and Aaron shoves the rest of his money in.  With the nut flush draw, a nut straight draw and an overpair I call.  The pot is about $100. Turn is an offsuit 4.  River is the 6 of spades giving me the nuts and winning the pot.  That pretty much ended the evening got me back to even.

Jill has been giving me shit for not having enough photos in my blog so I took her picture.  Here she is. :)