Back in my teenage days, I was a big fan of the stupid dealer's choice poker night. We'd get together and play baseball, night baseball, follow the bitch, Mexican sweat, and other variants that essentially made half the deck wild, and removed any skill from the game.It was stupid, and nobody ever won or lost more than ten or twenty bucks, and it was mostly an excuse to goof off together (and get drunk when we were in college.)
Though we were stupid, one of the things we never did was play Russian Roulette when we lost a pot, which sets us apart from a group of future brain surgeons (or Bush Administration Cabinet Members) who did exactly that.
According to the Daily Herald, this group of rocket scientists from Elmhurst (near Chicago) thought that it was a brilliant idea to get drunk, and play cards with a twist: the loser had to spin the chamber of a revolver, point it at the person to their right and pull the trigger.
This lead to the death of 18 year-old Michael "Mickey" Murray, on his birthday, no less. his friends testified that he didn't even want to be in the game. The brilliant mastermind of this sick and idiotic exercise, 40 year-old Anson Paape, is currently on trial for Murry's murder.
(via Bill Rini)
