Friday, May 15, 2009

Tilt Time to Take Time

If you're new to poker, a player who's going wild with his actions or decisions is said to be "on tilt." (We don't know where they came up with that phrase.)

We try to avoid going on tilt -- but in our first two weeks playing in NBC's poker room, we've admittedly done it once. It happened in a game last Friday evening, and we alerted the other players we were going to do it.

Why? "Sabbath approaching for me," we wrote. And it was. We practice a Seventh-Day Sabbath as presented in the Ten Commandments, from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset.

God comes first, poker second. Agree?

If you don't quite agree with the idea of a seventh-day Sabbath, check web sites of denominations and associations which practice it.

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