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- From: irwin@uvmark.uucp (Frank Irwin)
- Subject: Re: Yeehah!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.192800.28323@uvmark.uucp>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 19:28:00 GMT
- References: <zlsiida.426@fs1.mcc.ac.uk>
- Organization: VMARK Software, Inc.
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- In article <zlsiida.426@fs1.mcc.ac.uk> zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd) writes:
- >I'm the poor guy in the UK who can't find a nice cheap poker game, I ask
- >every 6 months or so and get no response.....
-
- You're always welcome to ours, next time you're in the Boston area.
-
- >Last Thursday my old pal Ralph calls me up, some friends of his are coming
- >over the hills to see him, and they play....count me in, quoth I
- [Dave does well at the track (at least, I think that's what he said ;-) ]
- >So when I get to the game, I announce that I just can't lose because of this
- >and (blow me down with a feather) I was RIGHT! A 200 unit buy-in gets me
- >120 units profit in 5 hours - OK the units were a bit too small to give up
- >the day job, but it's percentages that count here!
-
- Those "easy" wins are the ones you have to watch out for. The new guy (do
- Ralph and the boys play regularly?) is always allowed to win, just so he'll
- bring more money to the next game. I was invited to a game last week by
- a fellow netter, where the stakes were 10-fold of what my weekly game plays.
- It was a good game, playing soley hold'em, Omaha hi-lo, and 7 Stud hi-lo,
- none of the silly BS that's so prevalent on Fridays.
-
- They let the new guy (that'd be me) better than double his buy-in. Thanks,
- guys! However, I think it's all a ruse, especially since the guy who
- invited me was in on the monster pot that I scooped. I expect to be fully
- battered tonight. I'm taking another new guy (this one's a real bozo), to
- test this hypothesis.
-
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- Frank Irwin | "There's only one game that the house is
- Vmark Software, Inc. | guaranteed to win money at. Blackjack."
- irwin%uvmark@merk.com | -- Dealer at a recent Las Vegas Night
-