Card Night 26-Aug-2008

Bill brought a big bunch of bratwursts for us to bite.  It was much appreciated by those of us who hadn’t had dinner yet.

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The “7-high or lower” 2-11 Poker rule that messed up Bill last week messed up Troy this week.  On a couple hands, he inadvertently stayed in for low with 8-high.

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Violet didn’t notice that she had a flush in Omaha Hi-Lo and folded the winning hand.

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The deal went around the table exactly once tonight (i.e., everyone got to call exactly one game).

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Troy commented to Mark DeVol, “You seem to be folding quite a bit tonight.”

Mark asked, “More than I usually do?”

Troy said, “Yeah, and when you have stayed in, you’ve hit big hands.”

“Huh,” said Mark. “It almost sounds like a good way to play poker.”

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Mark D	+$74.00
Mary	‑$115.00
Paul	+$46.00
Bill	+$17.00
Lyndon	+$15.00
Jason	‑$45.00
Troy	+$32.00
Violet	‑$38.00

Card Night 19-Aug-2008

Bill showed his good sportsmanship on a hand of Texas Hold ’em.  As the cards were going into the muck after he had apparently beaten Violet, he paused and said, “Didn’t you have a flush?”  The cards were turned back right-side-up, and sure enough, Violet had won.

We’ve got a good group of players.

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Unfortunately, Bill got a rude introduction to 2-11 Poker when he forgot that low qualifies with 7-high or lower, not 8-high or lower.  The hand had come down to Troy and him, and Bill raised with his 8-high. Troy scooped the pot.

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Mark D	+$70.00
Mary	‑$31.00
Paul	‑$58.00
Bill	+$16.00
Lyndon	+$11.00
Troy	‑$3.00
Violet	+$61.00
Mike S	‑$80.00

Card Night 12-Aug-2008

Violet called 2-11 Poker as her game several times tonight.  It plays like Omaha Hi-Lo, but with the following differences:

• Players can use either two or three of their down cards to make their hand.
• The flop is only two cards, followed by a single-card turn and single-card river.  So at the end of the game, there are four cards on the board instead of five.
• The low hand must be 7-high or lower to qualify instead of 8-high or lower.

It’s an interesting game, although it’s much harder to put players on hands.  The winning high hands we saw tonight ranged from a pair of 3s to big full houses.  Low hands didn’t seem to qualify nearly as often as in Omaha.

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Violet called Apollo towards the end of the night, and unfortunately she got whipsawed between Mark DeVol and John.

In an unlikely scenario, John made an ace-high flush on his first five cards, while Mark made a 7-5-4-3-2 on his first five cards.  Meanwhile, Violet had 3-2-A in one of her hands (and two unimportant high cards in her other hand).  Having already made their hands, John and Mark bet and raised the maximum, making it four dollars for Violet to call each round.  Violet did call, and continued to call until she finally got a 7 to go with her 3-2-A.  She still needed a 5 or a 4 to beat Mark low; unfortunately, three of the 4s and two of the 5s were already out.  With just one card to come, Violet finally folded her hand (although at that point, the pot was so big that she was probably getting the right odds to try to hit her miracle card).  It turned out to be a good fold, as rabbit hunting revealed she would not have made her hand.

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Mark D	+$36.00
Paul	+$8.00
John	+$32.00
Lyndon	‑$14.00
Troy	‑$40.00
Violet	‑$22.00

Card Night 05-Aug-2008

A surprising number of Texas Hold ’em Hi-Lo Declare hands ended with all remaining players declaring the same way.  Sometimes with as many as four players left, all players’ fists would open up with the same number of chips in them.

On one hand that ended with a 10-high board, Paul, John, and Mark DeVol were the three remaining players.  All three of them declared high.  John and Mark both had pocket kings to split the pot.  (Paul had A-10.)

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Troy and Violet seemed to split quite a few pots.  They finished the night up $100 between them.

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Paul finally had a losing night. He was stuck for $70.00 fairly early, then managed to win all of it back before slipping down to a $58.00 loss for the night.  He played a lot of Texas Hold ’em Hi-Lo Declare hands, and seemed to consistently guess the wrong way when it came time to declare.

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Mark D	+$32.00
Mary	‑$74.00
Paul	‑$58.00
John	+$18.00
Lyndon	+$58.00
Jason	‑$73.00
Troy	+$51.00
Violet	+$49.00