http://www.benrapin.com/blog Grandfather clocks, 60 minutes, waking before the sun comes up...this is my life. Sun, 09 Jan 2011 16:59:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.benrapin.com/blog/2008/05/22/a-safe-bet/ http://www.benrapin.com/blog/2008/05/22/a-safe-bet/#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 12:50:37 +0000 Ben http://www.benrapin.com/blog/?p=8 Last night a couple of us met up to play some poker.  Dave’s first game of choice was In between – the evil game where you get two cards and have to bet on whether the next card is in between.  Per usual, the pot grew big quick and when I got the best possible cards – an ace and a two – I went for the pot.  Wouldn’t you know the third card was a two and I owed twice the pot.  Two things I hate about this game…counting up how much you owe when you bet pot and then losing all the money to bought in with plus all that is in your pockets…within the first 30 minutes.  I bought in for some more pain and had a couple more ups and downs before Jason took me out with a hidden straight in his hand.  Oh well…good time had by all and the first time I’d ever seen a 36″ pizza named “the wheel.”  Looking forward to next time!

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