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 A sorry ars night !
Just have to rant some on my father inlaw....  He lost most of my bankroll.
Man, this friday, it was the sadest night in poker history, or even since god invented gamling. Heres the complete story of two fishy guys...
I am in a steady relationship since a few years back, it is all great and I even enjoy spending time with her parents, or at least her father and his new wife. The thing is, he likes poker, plays some with his neighbors and considers himself to be the man, the maestro and a real shark (the truth is he is as loose and slow as they come). He is very fond of all sorts of gambling, one of those guys that spends just a little too much on gambling, he just doesn't know when to stop. It's not like he's ruining himself or anything but he spends at least something like 150$ a week on horseracing/poker/soccer n' stuff. He was the one that introduced me to online poker, I sat down and lost with him one night and realised that I might be able to play a little diffrent than him, well - the other night we visited them...
I have been playing for about 2 months, using advice from this site to triple my bankroll from 20€ to 60€, its been a humbling and disciplined effort for me, I have started to really enjoy the game. I play tight, even trying to be ars tight.
We started out this night with a couple of beers talking and having a good time, he then suggested that we should try a tournament together, I foolishly told him that I recently played a few to learn NL. He said - "why don't we log on to your account since I don't have any money on mine, I'll pay you later" (he did, no worries there). Since I saw the expression on my girlfriends face and my father inlaw is a persuaive guy I accepted the invitation figuring - a low buyin tourney, 5 or 10€ no problem, I can rebuild my bankroll. So we sat down by his Computer, logged in and started a tourney.
The tourney was a standard 400 players NL holdem, 10 players per table, we played, and played pretty well. I tried to play as tight as hed let me and the combination of his extremely slow-loose and me trying to be tight-aggressive actually landed us in place 14, giving us a winning of 20€. That's when and why things went sour, I wish we had ended up in position 399...
We drank beer, after the tourney we've had like 5 per person. We drank whiskey, ended up drinking almost a whole bottle, we were playing under influence 
Beeing up 20€ in my bankroll I couldn't see any problem with playing a standard NL table for that amount when he suggested it, but my vision was getting blurrier.
We started playing at a standard NL table and were lucky, played a few very good hands, like KK, AK and won up to about 60€, we were on a roll, a drunken one. He started to play more loose, I told him not to call a preflop raise with K8o but he did anyway, 'It might come up, you never know' he told me, I knew. We then got sucked out bad, we had great cards, went all-in and lost down to 17€. Thats when it really hit the fan, when we lost all of it. He took out his wallet and gave me 10€ saying - "why don't we try to win the money back". I just couldn't refuse my father inlaw, and hed also bought all the beer and whiskey. So - we lost it - and he put up another 20€ on the table. i said - "lets play for 10€ a piece to start with" - we did, twice. Why god, WHY GOD, OHHH WHY ! - I know so much better, but loosing 20€ is better than upsetting my father inlaw.
The night ended in the early morning and we were so drunk we really had a hard time keeping up with the game, the poker program repetedly alerted us that we were up next in every single hand. We played a all-in after a major raise on the flop (AA8) with A2o, is that a good move ? answer in white 
NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO !
My bankroll is now 20€, back to the beginning, starting over again... but at least I got drunk and had a few laughs. I will never play WITH him again, against him - no problem. But I wont deposit any more money even if he payed half of our loosings, 15€. I gave myself a promise that I will only play for 20€ and I will face up to that promise.
Well, if youve read this entire post you will probably think one thing, "why rant on your father inlaw when it is your own fault". To that I can only say, I know, but ranting on my father inlaw is much easier.
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