I started playing cribbage when I was 5 years old. My grandmother taught me how to play when I was 3 or 4 years old. I remember that the games we played didn't seem to have any rules and I always won.Played with my grandmother for the next 40 years until she passed away. As I got older she taugh me the rules and we began to play the real game. By the time I was 12 or so I had played alot of cribbage. The best times were in the log cabin in Colorado. We sat on the screen porch in her cabin in Colorado and played for what seemed like the whole afternoon. She was a good crib player and never cut me any slack.

Cards and fishing naturally go together. The fishing cabins have no electricity, no TV or any of the other modern distractions so cribbage is just naturally played. Of course you had to have something to play for so the cirbbage tournament was born. Peter made the trophy. When I won it for the first time he was beside himself. When I won it for the third time I was retired from playing with him again (he took it far to seriously) and he's not that good a player, no matter what he says. So the actual trophy has been retired (he took it and put it someplace) and we had to find a new trophy. Enter the Platter... so the crib tourney is now labeled the DILoAH Purple Cribbage Tour.