2007_03_01_archive

Semi Off Topic Musings

My girlfriend and I recently had a baby daughter and had a lot of

trouble coming up with a name for her. We had two choices, but

couldn't agree which should be her first name. She then had the idea

that we'd play Gin and the first to 100 points would get their choice

of first name. Now bear in mind that I actually showed her how to play

the game. Also, she proudly told me how she trounced her grandmother

at Gin; her grandmother being a little old Jewish lady who has spent

her whole life playing Gin and Bridge. Another factor is that when I

first taught the missus Gin she went on a hot streak and won a few

games off me. Basically what I'm saying is she thought/thinks she's

some expert at the game and that I'm a complete egg. So we start

playing for who's choice of first name for our little angel and after

about three hands I've got about 52 points and she has yet to get on

the old scoreboard. The next hand I knock after about six or seven

discards and now she flings her cards at my face! And of course our

daughter's first name is her choice. Hmmm, I think I need a good

tournament director.

That story reminds me of my ex-wife actually. When I got into poker

properly (about twelve years ago now) she also took an interest in the

holy game and was a pretty good player. Sometimes we would play

heads-up, but somehow these games always deteriorated into arguments.

We could not bear to lose to each other. But I think our greatest

moment as husband and wife was one night when we were staying at a

friend's cottage in Wales. We had found a backgammon set and started

playing. Now the ol' ex-wife was a pretty good backgammon player too

although she didn't like using the doubling cube so we always had to

play the whole game through which can be a bit tiresome (we never

played for money anyway so it probably didn't matter that much, but I

used to find it a bit annoying). I can't remember what happened (I'm

sure I was losing) but all of a sudden the board and all the pieces

are all over the floor and we're screaming at each other. We never

played backgammon or poker against each other again.

Posted by the chimney sweep at 2:46 AM 3 comments

Labels: Backgammon, Ex-wife, Gin

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

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