Emergency Chips

My Thanksgiving dinners have usually been boring affairs. Chuck cooks wonderful food, and that part was the sole highlight. Socially they have mostly been duds.

I brought cards this year. After the food, 4 of us decided to play poker.
I had not brought chips, figuring every household that ever has or had a kid in it would have chips. Not so.

Add to that, no one brought coins. Nor even any real amount of cash.

They balked at play poker, until I brought up bragging rights. That calmed the guffaws, but we were still without chips. We thought for a moment, then I thought MONOPOLY MONEY ! Everyone with a kid HAS to have a monopoly game!

They did, and we did. Turns out Chuck, the cook, has a near perfect poker face. But the aggressive kid took it down.

By the end of the game, which we started as a SnG, with very aggressive blinds, several of the others who had not started with us, showed a serious interest, and hopefully this might become a staple of future gatherings. Hanukkah is just around the corner.....

Taking money from relatives would eat at me.