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Originally Posted by Truthiness24
For sure. I don't know that he had a lot of friends out in the world. His time with us kept him sharp.
And he loved this game that we love- it was never about the money. Really, I never saw him play/risk more than $100, and if it was gone he quit. It was totally analytical.
I think he was a world class bridge player back when people played bridge. He told me a story once about how he wooed his wife the first time he met her playing a variant of bridge where you play your hand out and then run it back with your opponents' cards (or something like that). He killed it because he remembered what everyone had from the first time the hand was played .. and described it as a "fun parlor trick." You know, no big deal.
He described the bridge thing here(among other things lol) -
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/44...-buzz-1328607/
I liked this part, I guess because he rarely seemed to brag and he just had a way with words -
"I won the local weekly Omaha-8 tournament in one casino four weeks in a row. First place. There were probably 60 to 80 players each time. Then they stopped having Omaha-8 tournaments. Probably was partly my fault for winning too much."