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Skriven 2009-01-27 10:00:10 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Dave Drum
Ärende: RE: Card Sharps
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Hey Dave!
-> 
->  JW> Back in the day bridge, hearts, poker and backgammon covered
->  JW> over have my tuition.
-> 
->  ML> If I knew how many rakes & reprobates were on this echo,
->  ML> maybe I'd have stayed away from it! (and then, maybe not).
-> 
->  JW> So far, three of us admit to being card sharks. I'm waiting for Dave
->  JW> S. to say something and wondering if Hap has some dice stories from
->  JW> his navy days.
-> 
-> I'm not (and never was) a card sharp. I was merely instructing the overly
-> optomistic in the application and science of probability theory.   Bv)=
-> 
I was emjoying the same enterprise!
Amazing what folks will call with in a 
poker hand! We had two card games
that pretty much got underway as soon
as we were at sea and ended when we
got back to port. (Drills and emergencies
excepted of course). folks would come in
when a seat opened up, get out when it
was time to go on watch and someone
else would sit down and buy in. no money
changed hands, it was all kept on "books"
as to who had how many chips. One game 
was poker (dealer calls the specific game)
and the other was double deck pinocle. There
were intermittant spades, hearts, bridge
and cribbage games going but the two 
mainstays were Double Deck and poker. 
On a three month patrol I usually managed
to clear somewhere between 2 and 3
thousand...and back in the early 70's that
was a lot of scratch! 

-> It costs money to learn about odds.
->
And thank goodness there are so
many slow learners! (grin)
 
-> When I was in the Navy I got involved in a semi-sanctioned poker game 
(Navy
-> Relief Carnival time and each pot was tapped for at least one Navy Relief
-> Raffle ticket). Played for a bit with some of my barracks mates and was up 
over
-> $1500.
-> 
-> Then, rather full of myself, I bought into a game full of senior non-coms 
(1st
-> class and Chief petty officers) with their sleeves full of hash marks. I
didn't
-> even get to see cards in the first hand. 
-> 
-> Folded whilst I still had a couple hundred left and went back to playing 
more
-> near my level.
-> 
We had one Chief Machinist Mate, who really
was a shark, and he managed some patrol's to 
clear somewhere over 10 K ...pretty soon 
folks would leave the table when he joined.
No one wants to be continually fleeced.
He was a good card player but a little too
"cruel" in his application of his skill. 
chat with you soon!
hap 
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