When I was about five people started calling me a card shark. I remember playing go fish, old maid, uno, skipbo, and all the other kid card games and no matter who I played I won. I know that some older people let kids win but trust me that wasn't the case. My parents used to get frustrated and refuse to play. At about seven they taught me to play eucher. That was a fun game. We always played with matchsticks or pretzels.

My cousin who is about ten years older than me lived with us for a while. We shared a room and she and I would play rummy every night. We always kept our score in the same note book and just carried it over from night to night. The notebook was almost full when she moved out.

My other cousin used to play a game called books and runs that was similar to rummy but you used two decks of cards and had to make twelve hands through out the game. The twelve hands rose in difficulty until you had to have like a straight ace to king. Or a book of eight. It was a hard but fun game.

My brother and his friends introduced me to spades at about twelve.

I always liked poker. It has always been my favorite. Ecspecially to play with my husband.  Generally, the bets don't involve chips. It's a variation of strip poker but much more fun.

We go to the river and camp every couple of weekends to camp. Everynight there is a poker game. Small stakes mind you, a dollar or two. Ice money we call it. Oddly, I have never won at the river. I guess I am too drunk to play a decent hand of cards. That and one of the usual players confuses me. I never know when he has something and when he is just betting for the sake of betting.

The past few weeks I have been getting into a wpt shotout on absolute poker. I do pretty well but for some reason my husband always comes home, takes it away from me, and looses all my money. I will spend like two or three hours in this thing and then poof its gone. I don't think he has grasped the concept that if I win the thing I get a seat at wpt. In a tourney that he never touches I can make it to the top ten. I have done it several times, but never for a seat at wpt.

So who plays cards? What kind of games do you like?

Oh if you join absolute poker and it asks for a referral name, give them Jezzilin!