Please ship the moniez

Actually not really my first, but it's my first since I started playing online (So far I've played about 75k hands and I'm at 25NL now.)

Wow. These people SUCK.

min raise min raise min raise, 2nd pair = nuts, nobody even looks at their kicker apparently. At one point, someone called off most of his stack with just A high. He didn't bet, he didn't make any attempt to bluff he just kept calling with nothing. Later, another guy had lost his whole stack except for just 6 chips, and was seriously debating folding his big blind of 2 chips. Gah.

I think maybe I shouldn't play with these guys anymore. They're friends of mine, I don't want to take their money (although I didn't win, I got second after a guy rivered a set and then a flush in back to back hands).

How do you guys handle this? I'm sure you've had this problem, if you play online constantly, and your friends want to play a casual game for low stakes. Do you play, or not? If you do, do you try to play well, or do you just throw your money around like they do?

Submitted by : luddite

PokerStars Game #22044163279: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2008/11/14 19:39:07 ET
Table 'Glarona III' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: littleslick8 ($2.35 in chips)
Seat 2: Hero ($10.50 in chips)
Seat 3: RampantPanda ($10 in chips)
Seat 4: ElPato24 ($28.10 in chips)
Seat 5: JGrei ($10 in chips)
Seat 6: l.langeweile ($5.30 in chips)
Seat 7: The_presside ($10 in chips)
Seat 8: ATOJ5 ($6 in chips)
Seat 9: Inesiite ($16.40 in chips)
The_presside: posts small blind $0.05
ATOJ5: posts big blind $0.10

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to Hero
Inesiite: folds
littleslick8: calls $0.10
Hero : calls $0.10
RampantPanda: folds
ElPato24: folds
JGrei: raises $0.40 to $0.50
l.langeweile: folds
The_presside: calls $0.45
ATOJ5: folds
littleslick8: folds
Hero : calls $0.40

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $1.70)

   
The_presside: checks
Hero : bets $0.80
JGrei: raises $4.20 to $5
The_presside: raises $4.50 to $9.50 and is all-in
Hero : calls $8.70
JGrei: calls $4.50 and is all-in

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $30.20)

   

River (Pot : $30.20)

   

Showdown
The_presside: shows (four of a kind, Fours)
Hero : mucks hand
JGrei: mucks hand
The_presside collected $28.70 from pot
Hero said, "wow a quad suckout"

Summary
Total pot $30.20 | Rake $1.50
Board  
Seat 1: littleslick8 folded before Flop
Seat 2: Hero mucked
Seat 3: RampantPanda folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: ElPato24 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: JGrei mucked
Seat 6: l.langeweile (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: The_presside (small blind) showed and won ($28.70) with four of a kind, Fours
Seat 8: ATOJ5 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: Inesiite folded before Flop (didn't bet)

So I'm playing NL10, and in one week won almost 20 BI, then I had a weekend of just breaking even no matter what I did, and now I've lost about 10 BI over this last week. Is this normal? It's really making me paranoid about my playing, I don't know if I'm playing differently now, or if I'm just getting unluckly now, or if I'm just a bad player who got lucky for a while.

edit: immediately after posting this I win 2 BI. what a crazy game.