hit me... hit me again... hit me again... hit me again...
what? this isn't blackjack??
that was about my mentality when i went into the poker game last saturday night. i even took forever getting over there just because i didn't want to play. i suck at poker. i'm not good at bluffing. yes, bluffing is lying. i know this. but i'm horrible at it. because i just don't care.
also, i hate playing things i'm bad at. especially if money is involved. $20 isn't a bad price to pay for a fun filled saturday evening. if you are actually having fun. if it isn't fun, then you are just very slowly and painfully giving away $20 to your friends in quarter increments. i have a very short attention span and very little tolerance for this kind of stuff.
but i went, i played... and i actually didn't do shitty. i got there at 9 and we played until 3 am. which i thought was amazing. yeah, it's slow, but there are some fun times. mostly i just folded and then was like crap, that would have been a good hand. besides, then i could watch everyone else play which is fun. it's like watching celebrity poker but at lower stakes. these are people you know but they take on a whole different persona at a poker table.
they all get very stoic, serious, and super sly. there was a saddening lack of funny, dark sunglasses though. granted, i didn't bring any. but i doubt they would have helped me. jay had on a massive pair ala tom cruise in top gun. the huge aviators. and then josh and huey had the intimidating cigarette hanging from their bottom lips just to look cool (and i guess intimidating). peters was just very very serious the whole time.
and then hannah, mia and i were just kind of there for fun. we cheered for people who had really great hands. not like polite good loser clapping, but actually girly squealing, bouncing up and down in your seat YAY! for whoever had just done well, especially if it was one of the other girls. what can i say, we are supportive.
all in all, i walked in with $20 (of huey's money) and walked out with $70 total (because huey let me keep his $20). not bad for a first timer. beginners luck. i am very sure i'll be losing my $20 from here on out. so i got three more times of playing before i'm actually in the hole. after that, i'll probably lose interest again.
but i just wanted to brag about this one time. because i really did feel good that i actually made some money. huey walked out with $90+ and i think peters was around $30+. so i was in the middle i guess. not bad overall. go me. expect me to be whistling a very different tune next time, because everyone will be gunning for me. oh well... nice while it lasted.
