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To: Ilaine who wrote (46823)	2/16/2000 8:19:00 PM
From: nihil	of 71178

Let me tell about cheating at cards (which I no longer play). At college, during engineer's preschool two weeks of surveying (an honorable trade) -- we would gather and play poker. One of my friends (from Texas, by the way) managed to get in a game of Reddog (look it up) which when badly played leads to huge pots (especially at pot limit table stakes -- imagine freshmen playing that). I was extraordinarily poor -- and my friend W had bet his entire Princeton tuition on one pot. He said he would shoot until he won it all 1back. I was big winner and drew a (nearly) perfect hand. I had enough to take his pot (he hadn't the cash and I would obviously not lose enough for him to win it back. Should I have taken his money and sent him back to Texas? Would I be cheating if I folded and let him take the pot (which had some of my money in it)?(of course I might have lost!) Cheating at cards is at least as complicated as any other branch of moral philosophy.

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