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| Posted by: Rembrandt |
10/11/2007 9:36 PM |
So I'm in Las Vegas on business, exhausted, in a totally different time zone, missing my wife and kid. Whats a guy to do? Smoke a cuban cigar in a casino of course, and gamble while you are there.
I played some wierd game called Pai-Gone Poker, which involved getting 7 cards, making two hands out of them (with wierd rules I had to pick up going along) and beating the dealer on both of them. [If you did, you get 2X your bet - which was $10 minimum] if you only beat on one hand, you 'push' - ie .. no win no loss.
After about three hours of this game :
1) My chips no longer seemed like money.
2) I had a decent idea of how to play the game
3) I felt that it was fun, and I was entertained
4) I was up $5.
Thats a lot of playing, ups and downs on hands - to come out ahead $5. But I knew I was way too tired to play real cards. Even at $2/$4 blinds.
I proved this, because I went back to my room thinking 'I'll just read a chapter or two until I get tired' and woke up an hour later, faces on glasses, glasses on book, book on bed.
I mean, who falls asleep READING ??!
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