Seattle: 2-8 Spread and Head's Up against my mom

Went to Seattle for Thanksgiving to spend the holiday with my family. I had a great time with my family eating and hanging out. We went shopping and I spent a lot of cheese, which will be illustrated in a later blog.

I flew in Wednesday night and found out that my friends had been sending phantom text messages to some chick and saying they were me. Luckily, this is not a girl that I'm too worried about impressing so to this point in time I still have no idea if she thinks it was me. I crashed Wednesday, woke up Thursday morning and played in a neighborhood "Turkey Bowl." It was pouring down rain in Seattle and the field was muddy as hell, but I proceeded to score five touchdowns on offense and one on defense to lead my team to a 7-6 victory. After that I hung out with my mom and her best friend and took a nap before dinner. Thursday night I ended up playing a game of "2-8 Spread" Texas Hold Em.

I've never played a "Spread" game before, but players are allowed to bet between $2 and $8. Game contained pretty good players except for one really bad player who was catching rivers left and right. I actually went down about $200 and then hit a monster pot with 99 when my 9 flopped. The betting was capped at $26 pre-flop and then someone bet the A-9-5 flop, someone called and I raised on the button. I actually told the other player that two pair was no good and he believed me, but called me all the way down and the pot was at least $200. After that I lost to a rivered straight and some other crap and left out of frustration down $69. I could tell I wasn't going to win anything at this table and I was extremely on tilt based on this following hand:

I raise the maximum to $10 UTG, blind
I get one caller.
I bet blind on a flop of K-6-5 rainbow
The other player raises me
I know that he knows I haven't seen my cards, so I think he's raising with BS. I look at my hand and surprisingly I have A-Q. I call him, thinking my AQ may be good.
Turn is a J, he bets, I call.
River is a 9. He bets, I call.
He shows 9-3 suited.
Someone at the table tells him he's lucky and he says "It's not all luck."
I was pissed because he thought he made some great play, when in fact he got lucky as hell no the river.

I also made a solid call with A-10 high on a big pot. I raised pre-flop, flop came 3-4-5 and the button bet. Two players (including me) called. Turn was an 8, button bet, I called. River was a Q (I think) and the guy bet again. I called and he showed A-9 so I took it down. I pretty much put him on tilt and he left about ten minutes and two big pot losses later. I went with my boys Trev and Matt. I think Matt broke even but Trev got AA cracked by the idiot.

I got home at 4:30 a.m. and told my mom that I had been playing poker. This got her interested in playing so that night after dinner my mom, my dad, my sister, my mom's good friend and myself played hold em. I pretty much was teaching them how to play. We finished early because "House" was on and they wanted to watch it. I went out to a club my friend's throw and it was the best club I've been to in Seattle. Good mixed crowd with a lot of brizzzzzzzzzzzels.

Saturday night I played Scrabble with my family and lost. After that my mom said she wanted to play me head's up in poker for the $35 my dad gave me to pay me back for groceries. I told her she doesn't want to play for money and she said she can beat me. So we sat down to play but determined we weren't playing for money. Let's just say she is no match for me! I figured her game out pretty quickly, she was willing to call me down with Q high at any time...shows how much she trusts me lol. We played for a while because the blinds were 1-2 and we never raised them but eventually all of the chips were on my side of the table. It was a lot of fun and I think we'll play some more for fun when I get home for Christmas.

Overall on the trip, I left down $69 .

Not adding it to the numbers because it was pretty much just for fun.