MADISON, Wi.: Herdley Marshall lost more than he bargained for in last Tuesday's weekly poker match with neighbors. Marshall, 47, bet and lost his testicles in the final round of gambling.
"I can't believe they're gone," Marshall said several days later. "You really don't know what you have until it's gone. I can't believe I lost with pocket aces - who wouldn't have bet their balls on that hand?"
Marshall plays his weekly poker game with his neighbors John Strong and Larry Patrick. Strong, feeling lucky with a pair of twos, went all in against Marshall's gutsy wager of testicles and came out victorious.
"I just knew I'd have a three of a kind, and I did," Strong said, grinning widely. "You should have seen his face when he had to hand over those testicles. I have them sitting over my fireplace right now."
As for next week's poker match, all bets are off.
"I haven't been invited over yet," Strong says.
Testicles (pronounced tes-tuh-KLEEZ) was the Greek god of male fertility. Marshall received the two marble statues as a wedding gift in 1979.
- Clay Himes
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