WASHINGTON - White House aides today politely refused to start a round of the "Indian Poker" drinking game with President Obama.
The drinking game is a favorite of the president. It begins when each player is dealt a card they cannot look at from a standard deck of playing cards. Each person places that card on his or her forehead, revealing the card to the other players. The dealer begins by stating he or she has the highest card, and bets a number of sips of beer. Players who don't think they can win "fold," taking as many drinks from their beer that the current bet has established. The player who has the lowest card must drink the total of the bets. Play generally progresses until one or more players pass out or begin heavy vomiting.
One aide, Thelma Higgins, a worker on the White House event planning staff, was terrified of losing her job if the "game went bad" or "moods changed" as more beer was consumed. "The President can hold his booze pretty well," Higgins observed, "but you just don't know. What if something goes wrong and he starts firing us or worse. What if he started a war or something, I mean he IS the president!"
[inset pos=right]Play generally progresses until one or more players pass out or begin heavy vomiting.[/inset]Others, however, weren't scared of losing their jobs or bombing foreign nations as much as getting drunk in front of their boss. "It's never a good idea," confessed Tim Dunlop, who works on the president's personal staff. "I did that at my old job at Goldman Sachs. Our department went out for drinks after work, and I ended up spilling my guts about all kinds of office gossip and really personal stuff," Dunlop said, holding his face in his hands and shaking his head. "At one point I even... cried. The whole thing was so embarrassing. I never got promoted again, and I ended up quitting."
Despite the staff's reluctance, the President tried to get the game going, making a large initial bet of 10 drinks, before finally giving up and finishing his beer in the residence. The First Lady was reportedly very relieved.
Credit: The White House
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