While I was in Hawaii we played poker probably about six or seven times. There were about six of us that played so we usually had 2, 3, 4, or maybe 5 guys that were willing to start a game up.
Games were very short-stacked.. we played min/max buy-ins of $20 with blinds of usually $.50/1.00 and sometimes $1/2. Overall I was definitely a loser. I played incredibly loose aggressive and was up against "Real Estate Rob" who has also been deemed the "luckiest man ever" by our group of friends. It was nearly impossible to get it all in against Rob and survive the river, no matter the size of suckout he needed (and to his credit he got it all in good many times and obviously no one was able to suck out on him).
I would say I lost around $200 in these games. I definitely bought in about three times as much as anyone else but also was able to build my stack up faster than everyone except for Rob...his stack just grew and grew.
Overall it was a lot of fun and I'm not keeping these numbers in my records. I basically came with a vacation budget and am just including the losses in that budget.
peace!! 4yrs.
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Man, I hate that about cards. You can be as smart and skilled a player as there is when you're at a table in a casino or online playing against knowledgeable players, but when you play a home game against some of your boys who really don't know the ins and outs of the game, they hit all the luck and wipe you out. I have a boy who swears he's the best player among us because he won a couple of our home games. But I guarantee if he sat down at a table in a casino he'd be felted in 10 minutes. lol.
I've been reading your blog since you got that 401k loan. Def a interesting read and wanted to congratulate you on your success.
I'm just a low stakes player online at FTP. Keep up the updates.
Wanna swap link?
Defi: yeah man I'm definitely a lifetime loser at home games.
AppleSeed: Thanks for reading, sounds good. I'll add your link to the side, thanks for doing the same.
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