Posted on 06/06/2004 9:12:43 PM PDT by nuconvert
"Six Card High Low Medium Jacks Wild Stud Draw Go Fish"
I think I've actually played this game. It requires little poker knowledge, but lots of tequila.
Thanks for posting this, Dave Barry rocks!!!
I just re-read "Positivelu Fifth Street" by James McManus. A must for any poker afficionado.
Not as good as the Pulitzer Prize winning article on Professional Wrestling, but still very funny. Thanks for the laugh.
Oops, that's "Positively Fifth Street". :)
I remember long ago at a slumber party my mom taught all of us girls to play poker (on the condition that no-one tell their parents where they learned it). There was a game called Baseball where 3's and 9's are wild and anything that follows a 4 is wild but if another 4 is played then the wild card changes to the one that follows that 4. Got it?
There was also one called "Follow the Wild Queen" which I think involved changing wild cards, too.
My boys are poker fanatics. Me...I never played the game.
Sorry, FRiend - no suckers online tonight. ;-)
LOL...it's a true statement.
I and several colleagues play poker at least once a month. Our last game was last night. We played Baseball, but the variant we play allows you to buy another card if you draw a 4. Threes and Nines are wild, but you have to pay for them (10 for a 3, 20 for a 9, 25 for another card when you draw a 4). It gets pretty brutal.
There was also one called "Follow the Wild Queen" which I think involved changing wild cards, too.
We play that game as well, though mostly we just play Texas Hold'em. It's 7-card stud. Each player gets two "down" cards and share 5 "up" cards consecutively drawn on a 3-card flop, then a 1-card flop (called "Fourth Street") and the fifth-card flop (called "the River").
I didn't do too bad. Walked away with a piece of everyone else's money. : )
Poker and Chess!!! metaphors for life.
That's a remarkably accurate description of what seems to happen to me every time I play poker.
There are sharks among us my friends, and the ones I know always seem to be holding a full boat to my pair of 3s.
Sounds interesting. I haven't played Poker in a long time but when my parents played with a group of their friends, my mom used to win our lunch money for the week (long time ago). She was also lucky (so they claimed) at beating out all the guys in the football betting pool that my dad and his co-workers had going every week. She had the most winning picks of any of them.
Maybe you could talk them into trying a new variation, like the one the comedian Steven Wright mentioned. "I played Poker last night with a Tarot deck.. I got a full house but four people died."
LOL. I HAVE learned to put next week's lunch money way back in my wallet so I won't be tempted to use it to buy more chips after they clean me out.
.."I HAVE learned to put next week's lunch money way back in my wallet so I won't be tempted to use it to buy more chips after they clean me out."..
Sounds like a good plan. When I go shopping, I try to leave most of my money at home so I don't get sucked into spending it on stuff I don't need. Maybe if I could learn to win lots of money at Poker, I wouldn't need to worry about it.
I should visit that Mikosoukee Indian Casino Dave Barry mentioned - I've seen the billboards.
I lost my shirt on Smarty Jones, that is way, I am sitting here topless.
Yes, I used to play that at my ex-in-laws. It was a lot of fun, until my ex's mom and dad would start arguing about the rules, that is!
Sure as heck, even as I type this there is a poker game on ESPN2. Hold 'em is like a virus, it's killing off all other forms of poker.
~~"Yes, I used to play that at my ex-in-laws. It was a lot of fun, until my ex's mom and dad would start arguing about the rules, that is!"~~
Rules? There are rules? Nobody told me that.
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