Poker
my dad played in a weekly poker game since the 70s, and since he died last summer, i have taken over his spot and the job of hosting most tuesday
nights. i haven't really played much poker. it was one of those things that
my dad was so good at that trying to learn from him as a kid was boring and frustrating. but now that my dad is gone these guys, many who have been
playing together for longer then i have been alive, struggle to rope
together enough people for a full table, and so i feel obligated to help
keep the game alive. the actual games vary, but they are often high/low
games with declares and wilds and buys and weird raising rules and card passing. needless to say i am terrible. i usually struggle to make it to the end of the night without going bust and having to buy more chips. but
playing feels important, and so i play, losing $16 a week to a bunch of
mostly lawyers or retired lawyers, and trying, between hands, to squeeze
from these mostly 70/80 year old guys some directions to good camping and fishing spots of western montana since its been decades since i last tried
to camp here and the summer is quickly approaching.
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