Tag: Poker

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  March 23, 2018Myrtle Beach, The 1960's

  Barrel of Grunts

  We started playing poker in the eighth grade. All things to do with vice and the cravings of adulthood were scattered in the school yard verbally, in a carnival town, […]

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  March 16, 2018Myrtle Beach, Romance, The 1960's

  Stealing With Both Eyes

  We started playing poker in the private chambers of a legendary woman, Fatima Franklin. Fatima was a former belly dancer from Baghdad, Iraq, imported and naturalized by marriage to an […]

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  February 9, 2018Myrtle Beach, The 1960's

  The Door’s Unlocked

  On the way to play poker, I made promises to myself. Not to do this or that stupidly in the game, let myself be bluffed out. I always vowed: if […]