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Punctilious Protocol. Rogers had an even more awkward time in Rio de Janeiro. There he waited for three days before flying to the capital of Brasilia for an official welcome. The reason: his counterpart, Foreign Minister Mário Gibson Barbosa, along with President Emílio Médici and the rest of Brazil's top officialdom, was away on a visit to Portugal. Protocol dictated that Rogers could not see anyone-or leave Rio -until Barbosa returned. He could easily have arranged either to stay at home or to fly back...
Each entrant posts $10,000 and is expected to play until one man has won everything. The game, called "hold 'em," is unfamiliar to most kitchen-table poker nuts-a variation of seven-card stud in which each player is dealt two cards face down. Five cards are then dealt face up in the center of the table as a "community pile." The winner must make the best high hand he can out of his two hole cards and three from the community pile...
Hold 'em is Amarillo Slim's best game. "It's fast," he says, "and it's a real strong bluffing game. Ah like that...
...loser lost $312,000. Ah ended up a winner, but you could have stuck my winnings in a chigger's eye and never seen 'em. It was 'bout...
...Baloney," retorted Joyce "The Happy Hookslider" Heard, ace Crime second baseperson. "They threw that same Box Brastraps malarkey after we ran 'em off the court this winter," added Heard, whose pivot work was pivotal in the Crime's 23-2 overtime triumph on the hardwood over the Administration earlier this year...