me and the boy

today it is me and the "boy". "wife" went to an all day scrapbook session at church. boy is napping from a long morning of playing, drinking, eating, dancing and singing (though "words" are more like a chant) to saturday morning cartoons.

i am cleaning, doing laundry and dishes. thought i would take a break and write something.
i won at my weekly poker game on thursday. my friend hatches came in second. she wasn't even gonna come. i am sure she is glad she did now. I taught her a lot about poker so it was kinda neet to have us going head to head at the end. of course, i crushed her like a grape (not really, she held her own). She even had me crippled for a few hands. In heads-up you gotta get cards to win...period.
i run a game every thursday for 10 bucks....i know it is illegal, but if the cops want to bust up a game with a 10 buck buy-in and a pot usually around 150 bucks, more power to them. It is almost all my friends and family, it's not like i am running a casino. just a way to relax and stretch my brains with something other than work. i am a much better tournament player than a cash game player. I am VERY patient and TIGHT, i'm good at faking i have a bad hand (slow playing) and very bad and faking i have a good hand (bluffing). i am not quitting my job to play professionaly in Vegas anytime soon, so i don't worry about it. the more hands i see. the better i get. that is my goal. to get better.
i will try to post every friday and say how i did and what i won or lost. here are the stats from thurs.

14 players - 3 re-buys (including me) - 170 buck pot -
4th -10 bucks - Texty Steve
3rd - 20 bucks - Snakehead
2nd - 50 bucks - Hatches
1st - 90 bucks - Me

this week i won 90 i gave 10 to the host and paid "boy's" babysitter 75 for the week on friday morning. that left me 5. two soft tacos for lunch and i am down to 3 in less than eighteen hours. I have delusions of grandure to save my winnings to buy some really nice poker chips or poker tables, but life always gets in the way. crap