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Long day...
Jul. 20th, 2013 11:41 pmI took care of a lot of overdue items, including some invoices that included the last of my June billings. (Go figure.)
The evening was spent observing Russians in one of their native habitats, at a table playing a game called preferans. The game involves the taking of tricks to satisfy what bridge players would call a "contract," using a 32-card deck (ace, king, queen, down to seven). The scoring system requires, I think, a postgraduate degree in some technical field, but as a first-time observer I may be suffering from the "how-bowling-is-scored effect" (which is to say, the scoring is just not intuitive).
I recall, back when I first started working in the USSR, sitting down to a poker game being played with a preferans deck, which has the effect of giving you much stronger draw poker hands, on the average, and I can only assume that I won big at that game because the cards I was getting contributed to may having the world's best positive mental attitude, which in turn (and for better or worse) made me a more aggressive bettor.
Cheers...
The evening was spent observing Russians in one of their native habitats, at a table playing a game called preferans. The game involves the taking of tricks to satisfy what bridge players would call a "contract," using a 32-card deck (ace, king, queen, down to seven). The scoring system requires, I think, a postgraduate degree in some technical field, but as a first-time observer I may be suffering from the "how-bowling-is-scored effect" (which is to say, the scoring is just not intuitive).
I recall, back when I first started working in the USSR, sitting down to a poker game being played with a preferans deck, which has the effect of giving you much stronger draw poker hands, on the average, and I can only assume that I won big at that game because the cards I was getting contributed to may having the world's best positive mental attitude, which in turn (and for better or worse) made me a more aggressive bettor.
Cheers...
