My wife and I rented a tiny cabin near Nisswa, Minnesota for the weekend and one of the things we did was go to a vintage boat show. Maybe two-thirds of them were Chris Craft, but plenty of other wooden boat manufacturers were represented.

This won’t mean anything to those who don’t play poker, but last night I won a (small) pot with a pair of sevens. Against four opponents in a game of Pot Limit Omaha. They had 16 cards between them and nobody could beat sevens?

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