Father's Day Weekend Poker

Had a great Father's Day weekend of poker. Played 9 hours over Friday and Saturday Night for a profit of $2295, for an hourly rate of $255 an hour, and in terms of BB/Hr 2.69.

On Saturday night, I played with a funny character. Some young Navy guy, who called himself Crazy Mike, was playing in the 40/80 game. He bought in for around 7k, and left with around 2k. Every time he won a pot, he'd throw a $1 tip to the dealer in to the tray and say call me Crazy Mike. He played pretty horribly, however. He kept bragging and challenging people to play him heads-up. He claimed to be a heads-up limit holdem specialist and would play anybody up to 200/400 stakes. Maybe he's a good heads-up player, but he wasn't so good in the full-table ring games. One hand he capped it pre-flop with ace/ten offsuit. The two other hands I saw were pocket aces and pocket kings. He ended up chopping the pot with the pocket aces when they both made a wheel on the turn.

I had pocket aces 3 times in ten hands, with 2 of those pocket aces coming back to back. All 3 held up for good size pots as well.

On Monday night, I played my local home game with buddies and coworkers. I finished up $62! That's a huge win, given that we were playing .10/.25 blinds no-limit texas holdem with a $20 buy-in. I busted the resident rock who called off all his chips with a straight draw/flush draw on the turn, after I made top two pair. Not a horrible call, but a push on the flop by him would have gotten me out of the pot.

I think I will probably take a break from playing poker at the casino for a week or two. The last couple of times out, I wasn't really having too much fun. Seemed too much like a grind and work, then having fun like it used too. Maybe just too many hours under my belt. I've logged 297 hours at the poker table since the start of the year. Either that, or I should play some 3/6 or 4/8 just for fun and not worry about the money. We'll see.