BIG DEAL

poker game, originating fifty years ago, continuing into our ninth and eighth decades, some of us, small money, big laughs, tight bonds, a few gone into the ether, we toast them regularly, hold the remaining in our collective grasp, believing, as we do, that the ante counts more than the bet, for we're all in this game together, there are no losers, some deal, some get, a blue deck, a red deck, all keeping the faith…