tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49622986895141824432024-02-20T21:46:13.063-08:00Deal, She SaidWe play poker. We play poker tough, hard and wild. Really wild. One-eyed jacks wild. Threes and nines wild, as in Baseball. All red cards wild as in Bloodbath. And we aren't afraid to lose, two dollars, three dollars, even ten dollars a night. We laugh together, we cry together, we nosh together. If this blog had a subhead, it would be The Fellowship of the Bluff.....J.Michael Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15748774253168313345noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4962298689514182443.post-15168924300465822752012-11-02T15:34:00.002-07:002012-11-02T15:43:47.724-07:00Tola for President: The Early Years<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />....J.Michael Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15748774253168313345noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4962298689514182443.post-5355054679315075232012-10-08T11:02:00.000-07:002012-10-08T11:02:17.307-07:00The Poker Guns of August<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />....J.Michael Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15748774253168313345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4962298689514182443.post-74396124305536753902011-04-12T21:52:00.001-07:002011-04-12T21:52:11.474-07:00Monday April 11, 2011Peter Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14536171819660564067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4962298689514182443.post-55572401870020696742011-04-11T21:38:00.000-07:002011-04-11T21:39:39.846-07:00Monday April 11, 2011Salami & Cheese Sandwich @ work<br /><br />Salmon<br />Roasted Shallots, Leeks, & Kale<br />Heart of Romaine Salad w/Blue Cheese Dressing<br />Moonlite Bakery Almond, Orange, Olive Oil CakePeter Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14536171819660564067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4962298689514182443.post-9039230414174836532011-04-11T11:18:00.001-07:002011-04-11T11:18:45.148-07:00Call Me Bwana<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiH8wNV16nLRad12tufs6MkBW980DgerVstSjOFEtKxiqf1JIcktwwxK1HUd9jkLw9qxMcYRwYw1h6BcCOQ0aa9OqIrRLFJBrdTlir1btj268Jtzn2Wd0Vxt1ybs48hTmbPFf-153ePXU/s1600/IMG_1066.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiH8wNV16nLRad12tufs6MkBW980DgerVstSjOFEtKxiqf1JIcktwwxK1HUd9jkLw9qxMcYRwYw1h6BcCOQ0aa9OqIrRLFJBrdTlir1btj268Jtzn2Wd0Vxt1ybs48hTmbPFf-153ePXU/s320/IMG_1066.jpg" width="157" /></a></div>....J.Michael Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15748774253168313345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4962298689514182443.post-88024152922894049012011-04-09T14:51:00.000-07:002011-04-09T17:01:04.237-07:00Rare Archival Audio and Photo of Mason Monroe Announcing the End of His First Marriage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzLNiEP3twhihLE8SFSPnCq4vsNPCQhR_i0uxqMYbIHmGuFcvJ-lHQ-4VrWBwQCJE00hsI3h-S7CeTCuzATiQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>....J.Michael Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15748774253168313345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4962298689514182443.post-69723002163267857612011-02-12T11:47:00.000-08:002011-02-12T12:15:16.550-08:00Our Own Patrick Daugherty Works for a Living.<div class="zemanta-img separator" style="clear: right;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SALARIES_NFL_1.JPG" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="SALARIES NFL 1" height="225" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/SALARIES_NFL_1.JPG/300px-SALARIES_NFL_1.JPG" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="300" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 300px;">Image via <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SALARIES_NFL_1.JPG">Wikipedia</a></span></div><a href="http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2011/feb/09/sporting-box-nfl-giveth-nfl-taketh-away/">San Diego Reader | NFL Giveth. NFL Taketh Away.</a> <br />
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Now I can wander back to this anytime.....J.Michael Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15748774253168313345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4962298689514182443.post-32194832615277576322011-02-07T21:39:00.000-08:002011-02-07T21:40:37.541-08:00Poker Paws<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0rdopMlp_SgV6wDfIPGgltbBBgHEX00DwqvXpgyM3WyxOrF-YebAsxRcedmdy96yiNYBbcs4gnveYOKSCc2220O5-1I71P5rb1EWbdH1rqvuzN8RDqSzoHr8QOpAxxVDrTU2h6QJJSn-Y/s1600/IMG_1726.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0rdopMlp_SgV6wDfIPGgltbBBgHEX00DwqvXpgyM3WyxOrF-YebAsxRcedmdy96yiNYBbcs4gnveYOKSCc2220O5-1I71P5rb1EWbdH1rqvuzN8RDqSzoHr8QOpAxxVDrTU2h6QJJSn-Y/s400/IMG_1726.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571189477306828610" /></a>Peter Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14536171819660564067noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4962298689514182443.post-36815536190199586622011-02-06T11:04:00.000-08:002011-02-06T11:04:17.503-08:00Scenes from a Poker Party<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnwQXr4LDQPRVqglbQvZ6g1_-_VXOvK7Yy7XRDuDxZyd2vzWZRFCUi0kvCN-uTpEtXUaDTJ1go2J7L9p0UGWBut-3D5l3DDt6ST-lAcM3uGBKSkr2Ivpo4CnGN2RLs2OpZrVzXGVIHWcQ/s1600/IMG_0902.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnwQXr4LDQPRVqglbQvZ6g1_-_VXOvK7Yy7XRDuDxZyd2vzWZRFCUi0kvCN-uTpEtXUaDTJ1go2J7L9p0UGWBut-3D5l3DDt6ST-lAcM3uGBKSkr2Ivpo4CnGN2RLs2OpZrVzXGVIHWcQ/s320/IMG_0902.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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Paula stored up quite of lot of good karma for the future, I think. Why hast thou forsaken me? she asked the Kings and Aces. And they called her Lady Job and promised to do better by her next time.<br />
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I was much impressed by Joe's commitment to dispensing with any of the social graces that stood in the way of his acquiring heaps and heaps of chips. There were moments in last night's game during which I thought I was plunged into an outtake from Jaws. (I mean, imagine Dante's Inferno with Sarah Palin as your guide.)<br />
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But no more discouraging words. After all, I made a good start on one of my New Year's resolutions, viz., drinking my way through Peter's liquor cabinet. As the night progressed, his facial expression went from ashen to stricken, or so it seemed through the bottom of my glass. (Alcohol: When it comes to conscience, the perfect solvent.)<br />
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Here's a proposal, either 2/5 or 2/12 (both Saturdays) for a rematch here at "the Robertsons." We may not have much of a liquor cabinet, but my recipe for <a href="http://www.drinksmixer.com/drink6014.html">Purple Jesus</a> is much loved. <br />
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I'll be starching my loincloth.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14.5833px; line-height: 31px;"></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em; text-align: left;"><b>High card by suit</b> and <b>Low card by suit</b> refer to assigning relative values to <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_cards" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Playing cards">playing cards</a> of equal rank based on their <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suit_(cards)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Suit (cards)">suit</a>.</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em; text-align: left;">Most <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Poker">poker</a> games do not rank suits; the ace of spades is just as good as the ace of clubs. However, small issues (such as deciding who deals first) are sometimes resolved by dealing one card to each player. If two players draw cards of the same rank, one way to break the tie is to use an arbitrary hierarchy of suits.</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em; text-align: left;">No standard ranking of suits exists for all poker games. Even within a particular poker variant, the order of suits differs by location. (For example, the ranking most commonly used in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="United States">United States</a> is not the one typically used in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Italy">Italy</a>.) Two common conventions are:</div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-image: url(http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.5/vector/images/bullet-icon.png?1); list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: left;">Alternating colors: <b>diamonds</b> (lowest), followed by <b>clubs</b>, <b>hearts</b>, and <b>spades</b> (highest). This ranking is also used in the Chinese card game <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Two" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Big Two">Big Two</a> or Choh Dai Di.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: left;">Alphabetical order: <b>clubs</b> (lowest), followed by <b>diamonds</b>, <b>hearts</b>, and <b>spades</b> (highest). This ranking is also used in the game of <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_game" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Bridge game">bridge</a>.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.5833px;"><b> - from Wikipedia</b></span></li>
</ul>....J.Michael Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15748774253168313345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4962298689514182443.post-48692353285092399542010-12-09T17:32:00.000-08:002010-12-09T17:34:28.136-08:00And so on to the 8thSo January 8th at chez Monga-Moore. We'll consult on the menu later. And for players we have...Peter Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14536171819660564067noreply@blogger.com2