From: hack@arabia.uucp (Edmund Hack)
Subject: Re: Guilty as Charged! (was Re: Kelly w/..)
Organization: Lockheed ESC, Houston
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 17:52:40 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.140558.14186@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> jacko@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Jacko) writes:
>In article <-_cnfs.mzimmers@netcom.com> mzimmers@netcom.com (Michael Zimmers) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug26.213659.13640@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> hack@arabia.uucp (Edmund Hack) writes:
>>>It was a carefully engineered strategem to rattle the remaining poker
>>>players. :-).  Actually, by that time, I was so zoned that I was almost
>>>in babble mode.
>>
>>Does the man ever stop??  First he drills the other players with the
>>occasional dig that he, a hold 'em cherry, was knocking them outta
>>the game.  Now we get to hear that in addition to being a first-timer,
>>the guy was running on fumes to boot!  A definite master of demoralizing
>>his enemy.
>>
>>That does it -- I'm switching to games of real skill.  From now on,
>>it's Pai Gow poker, the slots and the money wheel.
>
>I like that penny-flipping game myself....
>
>Hey, I would have done better than third place if you guys would have let
>me keep my seeing-eye dog in the room.  As it was I had to keep leaning 
>over to Jacobs and ask him to tell me what my cards were.

So _that_ is how he did it!
>
>But really, it was a pleasure to meet and play with you all.  

Ditto for me.
>(Even though I'm still trying to figure out who's the Griffin agent).

No agent needed - they have the rooms bugged.......
(As a side note, we stopped at a drug store in Henderson on the way to Hoover
Dam last Thursday and noticed a sign above the slots by the exit - "These
machines protected by Griffin Investigations". I whipped out my Basic
Strategy Chart and said a quick prayer to Bishop Snyder on the way out ....

>  For those of you who missed it, I went down the next day and played 3-6 
>for an hour or two and actually won for the first time in my life, so you
>could say that the poker bug is reignited.  

Dum, dum, dum! Another one bites the dust!
>
>And also, I asked around about the legality of playing poker in the rooms 
>and the concensus among casino personnel who I know is that there's nothing
>wrong with it.
>
>The amazing thing is that I was dealt a blackjack as my hole cards at 
>least four times during the tournament.  It's a shame I only got to 
>turn them over once or twice.

The _really_ amazing thing was the 4 of a kinds that kept showing up. That
and the BJ scum taking 2nd and 3rd place.
>
>Jacko.
>
>P.S.  Where was Mrs. Hack with the laughing gas??

The Good Doctor was downstairs playing Video Poker trying to put Steve
Wynn into Chapter 11.  She forgot the Versed, Nitrous Oxide and the
catheters, along with the airway kit we were going to use to quell any
major flamewars that broke out......

As soon as I finish the paperwork needed to spend a bunch of your tax
dollars this year on behalf of NASA, I'll have a trip report out.

-- 
| Edmund Hack - Lockheed Engineering & Sciences Co. - Houston, TX
| hack@aio.jsc.nasa.gov    SpokesPersonp(Me,or(NASA,LESC)) = NIL
| "No the game never ends when your whole
|       world depends on the turn of a friendly card"