Lightning Strikes Twice!!

No one in the club ever thought it would happen again, but after going through a full deck of cards in our weekly raffle, there were only 3 cards left, one of which was the joker.  It should have been sooooo easy to pick the joker out of those three cards and win the pot.  Club members Ray Bastarache and Rich Cuffe each had a pick.  It should have been so easy for one of them to win the pot, over $800, but noooooooooo, it was not to be.  Each member picked the wrong card, leaving only the joker left on the table!  After the club had stopped laughing (and feeling SO BAD for Ray and Rich), it was decided to put the joker into a new deck of 52 cards and keep going.

 

This had happed once before, a few years ago, when this editor had both picks that week, from 3 cards.  Sadly, the joker remained and (after the club stopped laughing and feeling SO BAD for me),  it was decided then that the joker would go into a new deck of cards and that the raffle would keep building.  The pot built to about $1,500 before it was finally won.  No one ever thought that this would happen again, but here we are, with a new deck of cards to pick from, AGAIN.  This raffle has produced lots of laughs and is growing by leaps and bounds!