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This story is in the Seattle Times today and thought the folks here would find it interesting. Hope my home game lasts this long! Enjoy...
After 46 years, poker club folds its hand
By Haley Edwards
Seattle Times staff reporter
"When Grant Erwin started his poker club in 1962, there was no such thing as a personal computer, an online accounting tool or an Excel worksheet. The eight or nine men who met monthly around kitchen tables in Seattle and Bellevue to play low-stakes poker kept track of their winnings with tokens in old baby-food jars, labeled with their names."