"Playin' Poker on a Winnin' Night"
Mood:  vegas lucky
Now Playing: "Saturday Night Special" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
I hadn't played a game of poker since I was a kid until last night when I met up at an old high school buddy's house for a surprise party. I pretty much always dismiss cards as the work of the Devil, but it was for a rare social event and I'm not such a stick in the mud that I can't make exceptions. So, anyway, I had a lot of fun at it, much to my surprise.

I was extremely annoying to the group of guys there because it was clear to all that I didn't know jack shit about anything. They, on the other hand, had all of the talk and mind-gaming down cold, spewing the jargon like old sea captains. But, they were very patient with me, perhaps, in part, because they may have figured my abject ignorance made me an easy mark.

By the end of the night, though, I had gotten a lot of the etiquette down and hung around long enough to split a rather large pot, which is much needed these days. Of course, now that my "beginner's luck" has been played out, I'm sure to go in the hole if I ever try for it again.