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Pro tip: bring a deck of cards to the next family dinner and watch the chaos unfold
My family gets into the same political arguments every Thanksgiving, and last year I was fed up. So I pulled out a cheap deck of playing cards and got my cousins to start a poker game in the corner. Within 10 minutes, three uncles ditched the yelling match to join us, and my aunt actually laughed for the first time all night. Nobody wants to fight when there's $5 on the line for a pair of eights, you know? Has anyone else used a dumb simple game to break the tension at a holiday thing?
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evan_campbell1mo ago
Exactly. $5 turns poker into a competition, not a fight. It's the perfect amount for bragging rights but not enough to get nasty over. My uncle was screaming about politics, then he saw my cousin's pair of jacks and just shut up to watch the hand. Cheap stakes + simple game = magic every time.
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