How I lost $100

[Josh W]

There was a homegame. I lost $x00. That's no big deal, happens semi regularly. But this one particular bill stung.

Let me fast forward. Well, it's still in the past, so I'm kinda rewinding. But mostly fastforwarding.

The game is padugi. It's a rather wretched game, all things told. To those who don't know, A234, all different suits, is the nuts.

If you have no pair, and all 4 suits, you are going to have a legit chance at winning. However, we were actually unsure of the rules beyond that. Does AA23 with all 4 suits beat A234 with only three suits? Nobody was sure.

But we did know that KQJT with all four suits would beat any pair or any three (or two or one) suited hand.

Andy Fox is in the game, and he's doing a good job of pretending he's the fish. I mean, if you didn't realize that I was losing more money than him, you'd swear he was setting records. Remember, I'm fastforwarding. That is, this happened after I lost my $100.

Andy says "So, wait, all four suits is good, right?" After being answered in the affirmative, he exclames "I BET!". Some Sucker then called him.

Andy showed down A36J....with two hearts. NOt that great of a hand because of the two hearts. The Sucker shows a bunch of big cards, but all four suits and drags another healthy pot from Andy.

Rewind.

We just started playing Padugi. Nobody REALLY knows what they are doing. But we all know that Andy is putting money in the pot at a record clip. JustinUnderscoreA mucks a moderately decent hand, after showing it to me.

I look at him as if he's not only got three eyes, but one of them is a trapezoid. What are you thinking? Scratch that...ARE you thinking? He goes on to tell me that he's played with rocks before, and they usually resemble Andy. He knows his hand is no good.

I look at JustinUnderscoreA and say "hundred bucks says he has at BEST a KQ-high hand (of all four suits)". This essentially meant I was betting Andy had a pair or two of the same suit.

Justin now looks at me from his trapezoidal eye, is wondering how I can afford to play poker, and says he accepts my bet.

A few more draws, a few more bets from Andy, and I know he's full of it. I almost felt bad for taking Underscore's money.

Last draw, last bet, and Andy tables some obscene four-suited nine-high hand (no pair).

I still love you, Andy. Just a little less than before [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img].

Good times were had by all. Underscore even has the money to prove it!

Josh