Ante up!
So what is the family doing with our spare time now that the dotter is back in school, in the second grade? Are we doing Quality Time Things with her? Teaching her great moral truths? Helping her understand the principles behind basic mathematics? Discussing the political situations of the day?
No.
We are teaching her to play poker.
At, I might add, her request. I have no idea where she came up with the idea, but while OmegaDad was out of town on the East Coast, I gave it a (lousy) whirl. When I concluded that I couldn’t remember it very well, and certainly couldn’t remember the ranking of the various hands, I copped out: I told her to wait until Daddy came home, and ask him to teach her to play.
Which she did. And he did. And we’ve been having a grand old time playing five-card poker, not Stud, for pennies from the zippy full of one hundred pennies that the dotter took to school last year for the 100th Day festivities. At the end of the game session, we check to see who has the most pennies to declare the winner, and then the pennies go back into the zippy.
Our first night, the dotter won just about everything, and wiped out OmegaDad’s funds. Beginner’s luck!
The second night, OmegaDad won. This will probably be the default, because he has been playing poker for many years. (”Weyall…the boys and I was playin’ poker in Nebraska City one night…”, said in one’s best Western drawl, is one of our favorite family lines, because he was playing poker with the boys in Nebraska City one night, whilst on a business trip…)
Hopefully, one of these days the dotter will learn what a “poker face” is.
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