POKER NIGHT

++ POKER NIGHT WAS at the apx house tonight. well more like this morning. or some may call it last night. but it borders on this morning.
ring ring.
"hello?" "come play poker with us." "talk to john." .. .. .. .. .. ..
"we're playing poker at the apx house. wanna go?" "heather, wanna go." "not really, but you should go." "ok. let's roll."
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half an hour later it was 12.30am. alright. but its saturday night. i can do this.
"what's the game?" "no-limit texas hold 'em." "wait, everyone needs to buy in first." "how much?" "don't you mean, no-limit apx house hold 'em?" "let's say $5 a person. that makes for a $40 pot." "hey, we're not smoking pot." "wait, count the chips." "how are we gonna split these up?" "mitchell, isn't this against your christian beliefs of gambling and taking away money from other people?" "let's play 1, 5, 10 cent. white, blue, red." "pot?" "it doesn't matter, if we're playing winner take all." "yes it does." "do we have enough chips?" "ooo. i'm hungry. pass those." "no it doesn't. they can have any value if we're playing winner take all." "i once smoked pot." "oh, you're right. "only once?" holy crap. 10 minutes later. chips split evenly. money on the table. chips passed to the other side of the table. no pot.
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nick is out first. buys back in. "can you do that?" "apparantly so." mitchell has broke even. bye bye osam. "if he can. i can." "welcome back to game osam. thank you for your money." bye again nick. osam, join him. cliff, well, it was your first time playing anyway, better luck next time. jeanne, not bad, well played. jason, are you serious! you just went all in 6 times in a row and won them all! don't press your luck next time. stevenson, it is 4am .. oh thats not good. yeah, you're tired anyway. thanks for playing.
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"mitchell, its just you and me. just wanna go home?" "sure. we'll split it, $10 and $30?" "sounds good to me."
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so i made money. and it was the hardest work of my life. except for maybe when i was really young and my parents made me do chores around the house for an allowance. i made $10 for 4 hours of poker. which i guess isn't really work. but if you do the math, thats $2.50 an hour. which is still less than i got paid when i was 10 years old cleaning the house.
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thank you espn2 for televisin the world series of poker. ++