Win, Lose or Draw

I had a friend visit me this weekend and I enjoy his company because he is very smart and always keeps me laughing, but he also brings out my competitive nature because he is the type that is good at everything. This guy is the type that gets a 300 score at bowling consistently (who does that?), wins golf trophies every year and is amazing at cards. He just recently won over $1500 dollars at poker. While he was here, we got ourselves into a very looooong game of Rummy. Suprisingly, I was winning the entire game. Of course I started a lot of smack talk and was enjoying my continuous success at every hand. At one time, he only had 5 points and I had 260. I figured it was a shoe in. I figured wrong. He came back with a vengeance and it came down to the last hand. I started that hand with 965 points and he had 935. With it being that close, I figured it would be a bust anyway as it would be very easy to go over 1000 at this point. Wrong again. I ended that hand with 35 and he beat me with 65, putting both of our scores at an even 1000! First of all, the chances of that happening are slim regardless but what happened next was even more so. I of course did not want to consider this a tie as I had been playing very well and wanted to WIN, so we decided to each pick a card randomly out of the deck and the highest card would be considered the winner. The end result? We both picked a 7. We had a good laugh but I of course had to surrender to the fact that yet again, he could not be beat. Oh well. I guess I will just follow the motto that it's not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game. That is until next time!