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[instar]

Gym. Yoga. Mat. Corner.

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[instar]

"I take it the strip poker was fun for all."

[hold_infinity]

Robin grins. "Very."

[instar]

"We both lost embarrassingly to Trouble at the non-strip version, the day he brought us pie, even when we ganged up on him insofar as the rules of poker allow."

[hold_infinity]

"Yeah, he's pretty good," says Robin. "I'm better."

[pandion]

"Supposedly poker is a game of skill? But then I get bad cards. I'm probably missing something."

[hold_infinity]

"Oh, a lot of it is luck. But the rest is how you handle your luck," says Robin.

[pandion]

"Like how?"

[hold_infinity]

"Eh, I've tried to teach it, I get nowhere," she says.

[pandion]

"Well, I'm never betting real money against you, I guess. This is our house," she adds, pointing.

[hold_infinity]

"Yeah, I don't play for real money with people I like."

[pandion]

"Do you play poker with people you don't like much?"

[instar]

Bella unlocks the house.

[hold_infinity]

"When I want their money."

[pandion]

"Where do you find people with money who you don't like who'll play poker with you? That's kinda specific."

[hold_infinity]

"I knew some back home. Haven't found any here yet."

[pandion]

"Do people keep playing you even after you take their money?"

[hold_infinity]

"Surprisingly often, yeah."

[pandion]

"Huh, how come?" Andi flops onto the couch.

[instar]

(Bella heads up the stairs.)

[hold_infinity]

Robin also flops.

"Well, they don't want to think I'm that much better than they are, right?"

[pandion]

"So they figure you win on luck and they keep going till it runs out only it doesn't?"

[hold_infinity]

"Exactly."

[pandion]

"Heh. Where did you find the people you did this with back across the pond?"

[hold_infinity]

"School."

[pandion]

"Makes sense. I'd recommend somebody but I like most of the people I know."