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To: jim heger who wrote (264174)	11/13/2014 8:02:02 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542970

I started out with the fringe of the Kesey crowd in SF. I was early. I took a purple Owsley-lol and a window pane! Well, on two separate occasions. The second I saw the Hippies, I knew I had found my people. Everyone, and I mean everyone, shunned me at first. It was very lonely. But I had my new Hippie friends. We had one table in the cafeteria. I'll tell you a true story I have told before, but it is a good one. In the beginning no one knew much about drugs. We thought you took a few and went nuts and became stupid. "Reefer Madness"-lol. Well, the rumor around San Jose State where I played in the big poker game every day, when I joined the Hippies, was that I was talking drugs and had gotten stupid. They would not let me play in the college game so I had to go down town to play. The college kids were afraid to go down town because of the professionals down there. Poker is legal in California. So I started going to the Victory club and Joe's across the street.. I was playing just $2/$4 and $4/$8 low ball Well at the end of 6 months everyone was a Hippie and I was invited back into the college game. In the mean time I had learned how to play low ball with the pros. And it is a simple difference that makes for winners and losers. In the clubs, pros either play the hand pat or only draw one card. Never more than one card. Too hard to make a hand. In house games the kids would draw two or three cards e.g. if they were dealt ace, duce, tres, or joker ace, they would draw. That will always lose over the course of the night to a pat 9, or 10 I think.. Anyway in one week, I had won all the money in the game and Pat Dempster (still remember his name) asked me not to play any more. True story. Poetic justice. .