My first big win.
We continued playing our brand of poker throughout our freshman year. No specific details stand out in my mind about our poker games, except that T-Bird continued to make frequent trips to the ATM, or at least it seemed that way. I was never a big winner or loser in these games, but I would say that I was generally a winning player.
I'm sure everyone remembers there first big win, and I am no different. The circumstances surrounding it make it all the more memorable. It was memorial day weekend of my freshman year. It seamed that everyone on my floor was going home for the weekend and I had no plans. One of my friends, Joe, told me I could crash at his house and we could hit up some graduation parties. It was a tough decision, but hitting on chicks and drinking beer won out over sitting around by myself, although it was a close call.
We get to about our third party and what do we find, a poker game. The only problem was that I had a total of $5.00, not nearly enough to play. So I just hung out for awhile and watched as Joe and his friends played. They were playing a lot of the same games we played in our group, but others which I'd never heard of. As it turned out, I happened to be in the right place at the right time. The guy I was next to had just raked a big pot and threw me a quarter, yes that's right, he gave me twenty-five cents.
A new game was just starting (339) which called for an ante of, you guessed it, $0.25. Now I don't recall all of the particulars of this game (if you do, leave me a comment), but to the best of my recollection it was a version of 3-card poker in which threes and nines were wild with the best hand being 339. After everyone antes, the cards are dealt. Right off the bat you have to make a decision whether or not you want to play the hand. If you stay in the hand and lose, you have to pay the pot, but if you fold, you get to play the next hand. Shit, I really wish I knew how to play this game...LOL. Anyway, I folded until I got a monster hand. Remember, I only had $5 and I only knew one person playing. Well I won that first hand which gave me enough money to play more hands. By the end of the night, I ended up with $75 plus change, all from a quarter that was given to me.
I was so psyched after that night, when we got back to Joe's house I spread the money out and took pictures of it! I think I still have the pictures, 14 years later. Maybe I'll get around to looking for them and post them in this blog. I know you are probably saying "wtf, your first big win was for $75?", but you have to remember I was a poor college student, who started with a quarter!
I've had bigger wins since then, but this was my first, and much like losing your virginity, you never forget your first.
I'm sure everyone remembers there first big win, and I am no different. The circumstances surrounding it make it all the more memorable. It was memorial day weekend of my freshman year. It seamed that everyone on my floor was going home for the weekend and I had no plans. One of my friends, Joe, told me I could crash at his house and we could hit up some graduation parties. It was a tough decision, but hitting on chicks and drinking beer won out over sitting around by myself, although it was a close call.
We get to about our third party and what do we find, a poker game. The only problem was that I had a total of $5.00, not nearly enough to play. So I just hung out for awhile and watched as Joe and his friends played. They were playing a lot of the same games we played in our group, but others which I'd never heard of. As it turned out, I happened to be in the right place at the right time. The guy I was next to had just raked a big pot and threw me a quarter, yes that's right, he gave me twenty-five cents.
A new game was just starting (339) which called for an ante of, you guessed it, $0.25. Now I don't recall all of the particulars of this game (if you do, leave me a comment), but to the best of my recollection it was a version of 3-card poker in which threes and nines were wild with the best hand being 339. After everyone antes, the cards are dealt. Right off the bat you have to make a decision whether or not you want to play the hand. If you stay in the hand and lose, you have to pay the pot, but if you fold, you get to play the next hand. Shit, I really wish I knew how to play this game...LOL. Anyway, I folded until I got a monster hand. Remember, I only had $5 and I only knew one person playing. Well I won that first hand which gave me enough money to play more hands. By the end of the night, I ended up with $75 plus change, all from a quarter that was given to me.
I was so psyched after that night, when we got back to Joe's house I spread the money out and took pictures of it! I think I still have the pictures, 14 years later. Maybe I'll get around to looking for them and post them in this blog. I know you are probably saying "wtf, your first big win was for $75?", but you have to remember I was a poor college student, who started with a quarter!
I've had bigger wins since then, but this was my first, and much like losing your virginity, you never forget your first.
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