Subject: RE: Random additions From: "Keith Fichtemaier" Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 20:16:24 -0500 To: ADB Ernst said: > 10) There was a line forming in front of Lee Jones at the Orleans > BARGE. Everybody had a dollar note in their hand to be paid to Lee > for listening to bad beat stories. I take you back to BARGE Sunday, 1998, right before the Orleans noon tournament: We're all sitting around the table discussing ice cream when Susie walked up. She and Lee chat about the tournament from a few nights earlier. Lee manages to work in that he won the BARGE tournament. Susie starts to tell about a hand from the UP tournament. Lee holds up his hand, stopping her, and asks if it's a bad beat story. She says it is. He tells her that he charges $1 to listen to a bad beat story. She turns around and starts to walk away. I decide to r00l Lee and make him listen to it. I stop her, grab a dollar out of my pocket and say "This one's on me, Susie." The table bursts into laughter and she starts to tell the story. I think "DING". I quickly notice that not only is Lee listening, but sympathising. I hold up my hand, interrupting Susie, and ask if I have to pay extra for the commiseration. Apparently, that's included in the dollar charge. What a bargain. Lee says things like "he didn't", "no way", and "awwwww" at all the right times. Susie, done with her story, walks away with a smile on her face. The group breaks up, and Lee gives me my dollar back, saying he was so tickled he couldn't keep it. I take it, not knowing what to say. I had been counterr00led. By Lee Jones. Not only did it not pain him to listen to the story, he empathised. Then he gave me back the damn dollar. He actually enjoyed the experience. And the bitch of it was that he didn't even realize how totally he re-r00led me. So the next year (at the Orleans) as the banquet is breaking up, I hand out at least a dozen singles to people with instructions to find Lee and make him listen to their most horrendous bad beat story. Make one up if you have to. We go downstairs and there Lee is just outside the poker room, with people lined up to tell his story. Unfortunately, he seems to be enjoying it. fich, still seeking vengeance