Andy Capp by Reg Smythe for March 07, 2018

how strange to see a deck of cards with seven aces

I love a friendly game of Pinochle Poker.

Why are you complaining, Andy? You’re winning 4 aces to 3 … this mean you cheat better, what else?

My respect for Chalkie just went up by a wee little notch! He’s finally learning to play the game by Andy’s “rules”.

Playing poker with two decks?

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“How do you know he’s cheating?”

“He’s not playing the hand I dealt him!”

Well- the one who cheated BETTER should win!

Does Andy have two aces of spades?

Buy Andy a round of drinks!!he’ll be happy then!!!

Seems to me that Chalkie’s cheating isn’t working in his favor anyway. Isn’t four of a kind better than three of a kind? Especially when it’s aces?

Andy must have learned to play cards from his Uncle Claude, probably where he learned to drink and malinger as well.

Have a “Heart” Andy.

xxx

@Afficionado

Hey, Affie. If you are still looking here, I’m giving blood next Tuesday. Wish me the best of Maltese luck. Because I’m always bricking it (scared)

Monkey Sardine Hoover

https://www.creators.com/read/andy-capp/11/07/45700

From the movie “The Sting” comes one of my favorite lines: “What was I supposed to do, accuse him of cheating better than I was?” (If that isn’t the ACTUAL line, too bad. As Winston Churchill did NOT say, “Blood, sweat, and tears.”) One of my favorite episodes of “Tumbleweeds” was the gang playing poker. Snake-eye asks, “Is deuces wild?” Ace answers, “No.” “Why not?” “Because you’ve got four deuces,” “How do you know?” “I DEALT, didn’t I?” Then the revolvers and derringers come out, and Tumbleweeds asks, “Pinochle, anyone?”

What’s the matter, Andy? Afraid Chalkie will actually win?

Does anybody actually play cards any more? I used to really enjoy playing Pinochle but that was many years ago. Also a friendly game of Poker. Dealer’s choice with quarter limit was good fun.I was never very good at Bridge.

@ELDO

I think you are right. Television was bad because it was not interactive. The internet is good in that it is interactive. I credit it for keeping my brain from atrophying. My parents in their later years (even younger than me now) could only stare at a TV.

oh why not? my buddy Keith and i played cards for 12 years when we were 5 to 17 and switched from spades to hearts to fish to man of war with every deal…we had the most fun

I had a game once called Chickadee Poker based on the film antics of comedian W.C. Fields. There were eight aces in the deck and you bet your morals, scruples and principles.