Gambling Night

Visited Sam (dear colleague)’s house on Sunday evening in Bedok..

The hse is huge.. It is a 3 storey high.. They called this kind of hse as town house cos it has both the characteristics of a landed property as well as a condominium.. The hse is standing by itself, so it is like that of a landed property… But Sam has 4 other neighbors, living beside him.. the 5 units form a cluster and shared the parking slots and also a common swimming pool in front of the units..so like condominium style too…They spent quite a bit on renovation too… but I muz say the place really looks expensive…There are 4 bedrooms in the house.. one for Sam’s parents.. the other for him & Julie.. One for the brother and the last one for the sister and her family who occasionally will be sleeping in.. Hmm.. so in future, where does Sam’s kids sleep? Ke ke…Just a thought..

Focus of the night was not Sam’s hse.. I just found it nice so thought of sharing… Limelight of the night was asset restructuring session.. A.k.a. gambling time.. Pls pardon the banker language.. they were even going to bring out funds transfer form that night…

We started off the night with blackjack.. I din played cos I dun wan to dilute dear’s winning.. (** High hopes **)….Dear won a bit from there.. all in denominator of 2 bucks… There was a time when dear got a blackjack…his only time too… then the banker got 15points.. So all void.. Damn it… After a while, we started to play In Between… which I can is more exciting…

This is how the game goes.. Every one will contribute $2 to the common pot… Then we go 1st round distributing Card A.. Then 2nd round, distributing Card B.. starting from the 1st person.. After receiving both Card A & B, faced up.. the person is to choose whether to pick Card C.. Rule of the game is that Card C must be any number between Card A & Card B… If Card A & B is very close by, the player can choose to void that game.. If the player decide to play, he will call out an amount within the common pot of $$, say S$50 .. If Card C is opened, revealing a number between Card A & B, the player can withdraw S$50 from the pool… If Card C is not within Card A & B and does not equal to Card A & B, the player will lose S$50 and this amt will be contributed to the common pot.. If the player draws Card C and Card C hit the pole (I.e. is equal to either Card A or B), the player has to contribute double to the common pot, in this case S$100…

The game started on high note with one of dear colleague having Queen and As as his 2 pole cards…We thought it is not difficult to get a card that ranges from 2 to Jack… So we “encouraged” him to call out all the amt in the common pot which is S$26… He thought he can collect the $$ but when the 3rd card is flipped open… all of us fell off the chairs.. Card 3 is a Queen.. So instead of winning S$26, he contributed S$52 instead… That’s not all.. the same thing happen to him twice in a roll…No luck huh… Another colleague’s hubby even worse.. got a Kings and 2… Thought it will be easy to get anything from 3 to Queen.. SO he called out S$118….which is the total amt in the common pot… When the 3rd card is flipped open… all of our jaws dropped… he got an As… The game took his height when the pot of $$ got bigger… It was a fun and exciting game…

Luckily for us, dear won quite q fair bit… S$120….ke ke ke.. that’s the combined power and luck of snake and rooster.. I supposed next gambling session will be in 2009…. Hope winning streak still continue… Huat Ah… Ke ke ke