Paul Johnson... for a short while

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December 18, 2004

The cards are in

Well, my cribbage team might have come on a little strong during its first showing. After practicing for months in seclusion we swept the evening leaving no doubt in anyone’s mind that we had played before. We might have even talked a little trash letting others in on the fact that we’d been rehearsing. Of course now that I think about it the cribbage that we play runs a little differently then the cribbage played tonight.

You see, Christie and I play a couple of times a week against each other. It’s a great two-person game that takes maybe fifteen or twenty minutes tops so it fits nicely between our other scheduled obligations. There is a big difference between two-handed and six-handed cribbage. I won’t bore you with details but lets just say that “pegging” can turn a mediocre or poor hand into a decent one real quick if you play heads up.

So, yes, tonight Christie and I debuted as a team and I was excited to see how our new skills matched the rest of the field. Now at this point we must take into account that I was playing after Nick who was playing his first game ever and Christie was playing after Wagner who as most of you know was busy with any thing other then the game as usual. Therefore this gave us a distinct “pegging” advantage. In truth however this did not lead to the overwhelming “pegging” but must be considered. To sum up we won both games but only the second game was by a significant margin and also with the “triple-run-pegging” rule rescinded.

This all serves to belay the possibility that groups will refuse to engage us in friendly competition in the future.

Drat, should’ve laid low.

Posted by paul at December 18, 2004 12:37 AM

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