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Message: [QUOTE="davidkopp, post: 3664499, member: 247693"] I'll start--- here is one of mine: Cards Speak by David Kopp In the late 70s, Fred (Sarge) Ferris was the most powerful man in poker---Sort of like Doyle Brunson today, but a lot more dangerous…. he had his fingers in a lot of pies and nobody ****ed with him. The big game had been stud or stud 8 for several months, but on this particular day, we had a very loose player who wanted to play Greek Hold’em. Greek Hold’em is almost never played today but it is pretty simple: Hold’em played like Omaha. In other words, you MUST use both of your hole cards. The game started at 200 400 limit (the structure was unusual $50 ante and one $200 blind). But Johnny Moss (who was usually a big loser) and Sarge (who played everything good and won consistently) both got stuck and before long we were playing $500 $1000 limit--- a huge game in 1979, any decent size pot had enough money to buy two new Cadillacs in it. Sarge raised under the gun, I had JJ and reraised, Chip Reese made it 4 bets on the button. This was pre- poker boom---Four bets before the flop happened less than once an hour. The pot was already almost $7000 and there wasn’t even a flop yet. Sarge was a hothead when he was stuck. Everyone knew it. The flop was K73 with two hearts. Sarge bet the flop, I folded, Chip raised, Sarge re-raised. Sarge showed me his hand: Two black 7s. He had been doing that all night. Probably with the hope that I would show him mine when he was out. Sarge bet dark on the turn: The dealer turned the king of spades. Chip (who it turned out had the AK of hearts raised. Sarge reraised. On the end the 3 paired. Sarge checked, Chip bet. Sarge slammed his fist on the table. Scowled at the dealer and called. Chip turned his hand over. Sarge threw his cards in the muck, having forgotten that this was Greek holdem and he had the best hand: Three kings versus 7s full. The dealer pushed the pot to Chip as I turned and told the most dangerous man in Las Vegas that he had folded the winner in a $20,000 pot. [/QUOTE]

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