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Photos: 'All in' for 'Graveyard Games'

Dozens of gamers assembled at a graveyard to play the next installment of a larger game, "Last Call Poker."
By Bill Detwiler, Contributor
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Awarding Prizes

"Graveyard Games" organizer Jane McGonigal hands out vintage decks of playing cards to the winners of the Tombstone Hold 'Em poker tournament Oct. 15, 2005, in Colma, Calif.

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Lots of Players

Dozens of participants in the first "Graveyard Games" walk through rows of headstones toward the game's gathering point.

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Offering to Little Boy

The game's final instructions were for participants to gather around the grave of a little boy and pay homage by offering 500 or more "Last Call Poker" chips. The number donated turned out to be a fateful 666.

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Paying Homage

In addition to calling for an offering of 500 or more chips at the grave of the little boy, the game's instruction also led participants to form a large circle.

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Reading out Clues

In the middle of the poker tournament, instructions arrived via the Internet that players were to set out on a hunt through the cemetery for a series of specific graves.

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Tombstone Poker

"Graveyard Games" participants face a cold, hard reality in a California cemetery.

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