Re: Putting aside the hatred and all that stuff, who thinks the Dookies and the

76er® · 2024-03-29T17:13:13.817Z

Wuffies pull off victories tonight? Tall tasks for both of them, but something is telling me they BOTH do it. That would mean they meet up again in The Elite Eight, with a trip to the Final Four on the line. Where hopefully, they will be one of TWO ACC teams in that group! Go, Tigers!

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I'm with you on the gambling luck. The last night I gambled on cards, I lost

Mar 29, 2024, 1:27 PM [ in reply to Re: Putting aside the hatred and all that stuff, who thinks the Dookies and the ]

a poker hand holding a full house, Kings over Aces. The highest possible full house, since I had three of the Kings, and two of the Aces.

It was truly disheartening to hear the aggravating guy we all called "The Old Man" say "I'll bet all the money in the pot and the title to my new car, I got the winning hand." And he did, the old bastid had a straight flush. That not only beat my full house, the game host, who was a friend of mine, had also stayed in to the bitter end, as he also had a lower full house, something like sixes over threes.

I had come to that game, this was around 1978, with $109 in my pocket, which I really couldn't afford to lose, it still being a couple days before my next payday. I lost $106 of them, half on that hand alone. That convinced me that gambling wasn't really my deal, pun intended. Having to borrow $20 from my friend to make it to payday, after the game was over, was the final insult, and the ignominious end to my gambling habit.

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Re: I'm with you on the gambling luck. The last night I gambled on cards, I lost

I would say it was money well spent to cure you of that terrible problem.

I played a lot if poker in my youth and esp. while at Clemson.
After I graduated and was
just getting started in life and had only been married a couple years, and did not have a lot of money, I got into a poker game with a group of guys from all over the country whom I did not know. We were in Miami at the Doral Country Club at an event for top performing company employees. I was the youngest one there. I had some good hands, but not much money. I only had about $200 which was a lot of money in 1969. I got bluffed out of most of my hands because I did not have the money to call. Lost all of my $200. Taught me a valuable lesson. If you are going to play poker, don't play with those who have more money to lose than you. And I followed that lesson learned. But, I also gave up playing poker a few years later when I became a Christ follower.

Putting aside the hatred and all that stuff, who thinks the Dookies and the