‘You’ve got to knowwhen to fold ‘em, you’ve got to know when to walk away….you’ve got to know when to run…’
Anyway. You also need to know when not to gamble your wife…
A Murmansk gambler lost his wife in a poker game when he ran out of cash and laid his other half on the table, Ananova reports.
Unfortunately for Andrei Karpov, when winning opponent Sergey Brodov arrived to claim his prize, his wife Tatiana was “so angry” she opted for a divorce.
Whoops. Still, there was a happy ending:
Tatiana started a relationship with Brodov and subsequently married him. She enthused: “Sergey was a very handsome, charming man and I am very happy with him, even if he did ‘win’ me in a poker game.”
Found on The Register.
‘And you never count your money, when you’re sitting at the table…’
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Don’t you go getting any ideas!
I’ve only ever played poker once, with a bunch of regular real-money-playing friends. I had to ask the rules. By sher fluke, I won all the money on my first hand, and proclaimed “…isn’t it the mark of a good gambler to know when to quit?”, and I tried to leave. They wouldn’t let me leave though - they said it was an unwritten rule that I wasn’t allowed to win on my first hand. I’ve never played since…
Some friends…
I don’t gamble because I can’t abide losing money. On the rare occasion I buy a lottery ticket, I get so upset by losing £1 I don’t buy another for months…in fact I think it’s been a couple of years now.
The closest I come to gambling is those 2p machines with the little shelves that move backwards and forwards.
I am going to win on one of those things some day. Look at them, the coins are just waiting to fall…..
They stick them down at the front, I reckon.
Hairspray on the shelves.
Most I ever won was about 14p when I was 7.
Mind you in those days, you could buy things with 14p, I remember when.. [dissolves into misty reminisces....]
Unless you push off enough coins for the crappy plastic watch that’s resting on them to fall through as well. Of course, you need to put at least a quid in to do that, and you could just buy a crappy plastic watch for that price…
We play poker now and again with my brother-in-law and his wife. They’ve had us over with some friends to play.. We got banned for a while after a particularly vicious round of 1-2-3 drop. There were actual bills on the table, and rather than bankrupt everyone, we did one random deal for everything in the pile.. hubby won it with an ace
I think we bought a week’s worth of groceries with our winnings from that one!
Sweet!
Wait. I read it a couple of times. And I’m still not sure.
Who won?
I think it was a draw?
She probably didn’t mind at all. Chances are he was a jerk to begin with.
I don’t think he’ll be winning husband of the year…