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Re: What Are Your Early Poker Memories?
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When I was 7 I moved to a new school. The first recess break I went outside and saw many of the boys playing this marble game where one guy would put a marble against the wall, draw a line 5 feet away or so . If you stood behind the line and hit the marble with your marble you got both. If you missed he got to keep yours. Well I immediately saw the edge in this so I devised a plan where I put the marble in a very small divot and put a very small pebble in front of it. I then told everyone Id give two marbles if you hit mine. I eventually had so many marbles I was selling them for 10c each. At the end of the school year I had over $500 dollars. My Grandparents owned a campground on a lake. I caught about 20 frogs one summer and held frog races with all the kids at the campground. The beauty of these races is I charged 25c to enter, 25c to "rent a frog" then I would hold a race when we reached 10 entrants. The winner would get 2 bucks and second would get 1 buck for a 2 dollar profit for me each race-which worked out to about 8 bucks an hour, not bad for an 8 year old. [/ QUOTE ] awesome. reminds me of my brother-in-law, who around the same age, used to earn a quarter a day or so for getting up early and starting his neighbor's car for him on winter days so it would heat up. |
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