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Aphrodite of Melos. Poker beauty |
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| Torch Bearer Loses Torch in Poker Game. |
Yesterday the summer games' torch was lost along its tour of the games' former host cities. What was not immediately reported, however, was that the torch was lost in a poker game. According to witnesses, it began when torch bearer Paulie Nova took a break from his torch duties and sat in on a local poker game.
"I was up from the beginning. I kept raking in pot after pot and then my luck turned" confided a tearful Nova. "I pretty much gave back all my chips. Then I'm in this hand and I make aces full on the river. I checked, this guy bet into me, so I went over the top on him. All-in, including the torch. The guy flipped over four threes. I couldn't believe it. I mean what are the odds? Like one in a million or something."
This, however, has been no consolation to the games committee.
"What the hell are we going to do?" said torch tour director Nikos Papandreou. "Do they expect us to show up in Athens in August with some lighter or something? We're talking to the guy who won it but he seems to have no interest in relinquishing the torch. We're screwed," added Papandreou despondently.
The man who won the torch, Rollin' Bones Raulins, has no intention of giving it back. "I won that torch fair and square. It's not my fault if it wasn't Paulie's to lose. He can deal with that himself. Not my problem. Plus it looks cool in my living room, and works great with my wife's fondue set," Raulins added cheerfully. |
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