tonight's poker winnings: $5.75. Doubled my money.
okay, i'll give you a little more.
we scheduled the game at six, but only jacks made it on time. a friend of his arrived a few minutes later. three not enough, i turned on a copy of "jackass: the moive" to watch while we waited for the san antonio kid, and his girl.
they enjoyed the movie. i found it in a hallway a couple of weeks ago, in a pile of videos marked "free". thought i would be indifferent to it, but if i grabbed it, i wouldn't have to rent it. i was wrong. i--god help me--loved it.
the kid and his girl arrived, with four others. 9 people. way too many for the number of poker chips i own, so i split what we had, and the kid and i drove out to find more. fred meyer was sold out. a walgreens was not. i bought a candy bar and vanilla coke.
when we got back, the game was in full swing. someone saw the coke and said she had heard coca-cola props up a brutal dictator, and no one should buy their products. she didn't know which brutal dictator, didn't know any of the details, but assured us coke kills people. i opened the bottle and poured a glass.
they brought pepsi. a boycott on pepsi products for their involvement with a burma ended in 1997.
don't chastise me without specifics.
9 people is too large a group for most poker games. so, a couple of us sat out all night. when i got in, i tried dealing out texas hold 'em and lowball. i won pretty consistently, but had no competition--not much, anway. jacks' friend was good. jacks is good. the kid ain't bad. but the kid's girl's friend were fresh meat.
they ended up playing too many hands of guts for my taste. i hate guts. it's just gambling. i play poker and as w.c. fields said, poker ain't gambling the way i play it.
bah, i'm exagerrating.
guts: everyone gets two cards after the ante. you look at them, and hope you have the best two card hand. everyone holds the cards out, face down. dealer counts off one-two-three-DROP, and those who drop fold. those who hold their cards are in. they turn them over. best hand (ace high, king high, the elusive pair that comes up 8% of the time) wins, losing hands match the pot. so, three people hold on a $.60 pot, one wins, the other two put in $.60, the pot doubles. this goes on until one person holds, everyone else drops.
i lost $14.00 on a single hand of guts. guts'll kill ya.
okay, i'll give you a little more.
we scheduled the game at six, but only jacks made it on time. a friend of his arrived a few minutes later. three not enough, i turned on a copy of "jackass: the moive" to watch while we waited for the san antonio kid, and his girl.
they enjoyed the movie. i found it in a hallway a couple of weeks ago, in a pile of videos marked "free". thought i would be indifferent to it, but if i grabbed it, i wouldn't have to rent it. i was wrong. i--god help me--loved it.
the kid and his girl arrived, with four others. 9 people. way too many for the number of poker chips i own, so i split what we had, and the kid and i drove out to find more. fred meyer was sold out. a walgreens was not. i bought a candy bar and vanilla coke.
when we got back, the game was in full swing. someone saw the coke and said she had heard coca-cola props up a brutal dictator, and no one should buy their products. she didn't know which brutal dictator, didn't know any of the details, but assured us coke kills people. i opened the bottle and poured a glass.
they brought pepsi. a boycott on pepsi products for their involvement with a burma ended in 1997.
don't chastise me without specifics.
9 people is too large a group for most poker games. so, a couple of us sat out all night. when i got in, i tried dealing out texas hold 'em and lowball. i won pretty consistently, but had no competition--not much, anway. jacks' friend was good. jacks is good. the kid ain't bad. but the kid's girl's friend were fresh meat.
they ended up playing too many hands of guts for my taste. i hate guts. it's just gambling. i play poker and as w.c. fields said, poker ain't gambling the way i play it.
bah, i'm exagerrating.
guts: everyone gets two cards after the ante. you look at them, and hope you have the best two card hand. everyone holds the cards out, face down. dealer counts off one-two-three-DROP, and those who drop fold. those who hold their cards are in. they turn them over. best hand (ace high, king high, the elusive pair that comes up 8% of the time) wins, losing hands match the pot. so, three people hold on a $.60 pot, one wins, the other two put in $.60, the pot doubles. this goes on until one person holds, everyone else drops.
i lost $14.00 on a single hand of guts. guts'll kill ya.
catdad:
We used to play penny ante poker at most of the family gettogethers. Haven't done it for a couple of years now, though. Could easily win or lose a couple of dollars over the evening. I liked baseball, 7-card stud, and 5-card draw. Baseball was always my dad's favorite. He'd also deal hi-lo and occasionally something I think was called Monte Carlo. He loved the more complicated ones. The women in the family always dealt 7-card no-peeky, which I'm rather embarrassed about now that I've just typed that. I'd only resort to calling wildcards if my hands were sucking. Guts is a good game for kids to start with.
freckle:
moving. but now i live on the ave. woohoo!