Current Mood:
Sad
Lara had never been to a casino to play cash poker so when our usual Sunday poker game didn’t happen we went to the Boulevard Casino in Coquitlam. We had to wait a few minutes to sit at a $1/$2 table, her to the left of the dealer and myself 2 to the right of the dealer.
I played 5 hands. Five.
The last 2 were the bad ones…AQ off on the first, and I re-raised (accidentally, when I didn’t notice there was already a raise to $10) to $20. The original raiser then went all in, and when I figured out we had the same amount of chips I took it as a sign and called. He also had AQ off (reverse of my suits) and we split the pot.
On the next hand I got pocket aces. Big stack raised to $7 and I re-raised to $25. There were a couple callers, including Lara. The flop was rainbow 10 high. I bet another $25, Lara folded and big stack put me all in. Well sure, I’ll take your money, I thought. The last 2 cards were hearts, completing his runner-runner QX flush. He had called because he had top pair, and it paid off for him big time.
Lara had been nursing a straight and actually hit it after she folded, but the flush would have destroyed her too. She lasted a while longer but lost most of her stack on a flush/straight draw that never hit. A few hands later we were both down $100.
We put $60 each into Blackjack, but even though she doubled her stack at one point I was treading water the whole way. Inevitably we busted out and went home.
Grand total of time spent there: 1.5 hours. Cost: $325 (Lara tried $5 of slots). Guh.