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During my first term at Cambridge, I took part in many clandestine poker games. Participants had to wear red-velvet smoking jackets and bow ties, and debts were written on pieces of paper and collected afterward with gentlemanly menace. I lost so much money at these aristocratic games—thousands of dollars—that over my first Christmas holiday I was forced to take a job on a North Sea oil rig in order to pay it all back.Macao Gambling
