Rivers again

John Blowers. the author of

https://www.amazon.com/Life-Tilt-Confessions-Poker-Dad/dp/1434376028  was at the table.  

I could not lose. 

Bought in for $100;  Cashed out for $401.  Then lost on the video poker.  I came home ahead $181.

So it was a great night and a fine game.  The same people come back again and again.  Most are passive callers.  

John Blowers was there and I got to banter and tell tales and miss Gregg and catch up.  It was fun.

For the first hour I played practically nothing.  Because the table plays about every hand in search of the high hand,  hand selection is important.  John was harassing me because I was never in a hand.  He raised my big blind and I folded the three dollars.  That made for a good bit of banter.  I had 2/3 offsuit.

Then I started to get cards and they all developed.  I should not have won about three fourths of the hands I was in.  Sometimes I won with fifth best hand.   Besides that, in spite of my rock hard playing, the callers did not go away when I started betting as usually happens.  I did bluff some river pots.  I got that respect.

At one point I got 7/5 offsuit, John's favorite hand. There was some raising preflop which usually is a signal of high cards.  So I capped the preflop raising, just for fun.  The flop gave me a pair of sevens and nothing else developed.   Still, I won!!!!!!!!!a huge pot.

John lost all night. 

He bought back in for two trays $200 and started raising preflop almost every hand.  I was two behind him, so if I played, I reraised.  We built some fine, big pots and I took down most of them.  I think John tries this in no limit.  He overwhelms and wins for a while.  

He did it at Gregg's.   

He lost and lost and lost and then quit being a maniac but he was pretty depressed.

I cashed out my 100 buy in for 401, lost some at video poker, and took home 181.  I'm very happy.

The game was amazing.  A perfect game.  And these folks come almost every Thursday.

I almost got the royal.  Had I got a jack of hearts on the river, that hand would have been worth $800 plus the pot.

I was on the board with highhand of 22244   and almost won the half hour $300

Blowers was fun.  The people are nice.  They are passive callers and easy to put on a hand.