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No guts no glory? eh...sometimes
15 years ago
Well, this last weekend was quite the experience. every year, my dad's side of the family goes on a camping trip along different rivers in WV. This year was the New down in the south. We decided to rent a cabin this year instead of using tents. WOW is all i can say about that...i mean....just wow...the cabin itself was a bit of a fixer, but it had all the amenities, except of course that it was in the middle of fragging nowhere, and i had absolutely no way of communicating to anyone. That problem aside tho it was pretty fun, it even had it's own pool (eh...3ft deep but hey wht u expect?)
Anyway enough about the cabin. We brought along our kayaks and canoes and other such boats and put in about a mile up. i myself had NEVER used my kayak yet on moving water and nearly scared myself shit-less just going thru a few rapids (moving water's been a problem with me since an incident bout a year or 2 ago when me and dad flipped on the same trip) When we got back to the cabin i wanted nothing more than to just chill in the pool....ironic huh.
Then came poker night, traditionally on the last night of camping, we all gather around a big table and play poker games (hold em', five card stud, 3 card guts, etc.) we also use real money, but not much, something along the lines of $10 per person divided up in quarters, dimes and nickles. I myself won 3 natural hands (one straight, one flush and one full house) Then things got risky with a game my cousin Jay calls Indian Poker. Boy oh boy...how to describe this game? It is insane, basically you are dealt 1 card and you can't look at it, you put it on your head and can look at all the other cards, then the dealer does a "3,2,1" count down and if you fold, you drop your card, but if not you hold on to it. it's really a game of guts and luck. but that's not the half of it....everyone who doesn't fold and loses has to match the pot. so....this game's pot gets pretty darn big. i stayed out of this thankfully, but my dad did not....he lost $25+ in one single game. oh but that's not all, we wake up the next morning and i ask him "what were you thinking playing such an insane game?" his reply was "no guts, no glory" my comeback? "yeah, well no brains, no money."
-Alexander the Lombax
Anyway enough about the cabin. We brought along our kayaks and canoes and other such boats and put in about a mile up. i myself had NEVER used my kayak yet on moving water and nearly scared myself shit-less just going thru a few rapids (moving water's been a problem with me since an incident bout a year or 2 ago when me and dad flipped on the same trip) When we got back to the cabin i wanted nothing more than to just chill in the pool....ironic huh.
Then came poker night, traditionally on the last night of camping, we all gather around a big table and play poker games (hold em', five card stud, 3 card guts, etc.) we also use real money, but not much, something along the lines of $10 per person divided up in quarters, dimes and nickles. I myself won 3 natural hands (one straight, one flush and one full house) Then things got risky with a game my cousin Jay calls Indian Poker. Boy oh boy...how to describe this game? It is insane, basically you are dealt 1 card and you can't look at it, you put it on your head and can look at all the other cards, then the dealer does a "3,2,1" count down and if you fold, you drop your card, but if not you hold on to it. it's really a game of guts and luck. but that's not the half of it....everyone who doesn't fold and loses has to match the pot. so....this game's pot gets pretty darn big. i stayed out of this thankfully, but my dad did not....he lost $25+ in one single game. oh but that's not all, we wake up the next morning and i ask him "what were you thinking playing such an insane game?" his reply was "no guts, no glory" my comeback? "yeah, well no brains, no money."
-Alexander the Lombax
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Ooh good comeback xD
