[pnpgm] Chion's IBT While riding back...

Schnockel dasandersx at comcast.net
Sat Feb 14 17:57:07 CET 2009


Kiet replies, "It was never my habit to gamble either...but onboard ship as 
crew you can hardly avoid it.  The only games I know are but simple ones. 
My favorite was where each of two players rolls two dice, one player at a 
time.  After three rolls, whoever has the highest roll wins the pot.  If 
both players roll '12', then their money stays in the pot but the next two 
players must bid to pay them for their pot and the new player's chance at 
rolling for the large pot.  That way the players that tie lose 
something...because they weren't winners...but they don't lose 
everything...because it was, after all, a tie."

"I wasn't looking to 'gamble' so much as I was looking to let the gods 
decide who might receive relatively minor treasure goods."

"And...onboard ship...new sailors that talk like you are usually like the 
dangerous fish in the ocean...sharks!"
(smiling)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "kzinti maouse" <kzinti_maouse at yahoo.com>
To: <pnpgm at abroere.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 12:35 AM
Subject: [pnpgm] Chion's IBT While riding back...
>
> Chion asks Keit, "This "gambling" you were refering to. I have seen it 
> done in several places in many ways. Perhaps you could teach me something 
> about it? I do understand there are things such as "friendly wagers" in 
> such games of chance?" He will smile and continue, "I haven't ever picked 
> up the habit of games of chance myself, but understand they are resolved 
> by both luck and knowing something about the games themselves... and 
> sometimes cheating as well. But I wouldn't expect you to teach me that so 
> much as I understand it is something I should learn on my own. And I hear 
> there is something called a "tell" that everyone has when playing Go or 
> certain kinds of card games. I will have several days where I need to just 
> relax and do nothing at all, so perhaps learning about games would be in 
> order." ... and he will wait for the no-doubt reply of indignation about 
> it being a "hard life, yada yada yada..." But basically this is how he 
> asks.
>





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