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Gambling can save your life, Arkansas’ highest court ordered an inmate off of death row on Thursday, citing a 1940 court decision that gave an escape clause from an aggravated-robbery conviction to people trying to recover gambling losses.

Justices ordered a new sentencing hearing for Michael B. Daniels, who said he was attempting to recover $20 he lost in a game of three-card monte when he stabbed and killed James Williams, 52, on Jan. 8, 2006. Daniels claimed during the trial that Williams had cheated in the game.

Justices cited a 68-year-old ruling that said someone couldn’t be convicted of aggravated robbery while trying to recover gambling losses. Aggravated robbery was the underlying circumstance when a jury ordered Daniels to die for Williams’ death. The split court reversed Daniels’ aggravated robbery conviction and the capital murder charge linked to it, but upheld his conviction for premeditated and deliberate capital murder.

In the majority opinion, Associate Justice Robert L. Brown acknowledged that some could argue the 1940 case was not in the public’s interest, but said, “it is nonetheless still good law in Arkansas.”

Daniels’ attorney, Teri Chambers, said Thursday’s ruling “makes sense because you have to be able to commit a theft in order to commit a robbery. You have to be taking someone else’s property to commit a theft.” It was unclear whether the ruling had been used to get anyone else off of Arkansas death row.

During the trial, Daniels’ attorney admitted that his client stabbed Williams in the head, chest and stomach with a Bowie knife. The attack was recorded on surveillance video. Prosecutors said there was no evidence that Williams cheated during the card game. I always told my momma that gambling was a good thing!

Here is one of my latest ‘bad-beats’:

Playing Omaha the flop is 7-7-10 and I have pocket 10’s. I check the flop to see if I can spot someone with a 7 and maybe they will bet and I will make some cash. Nobody bets the flop and a K comes on the turn, the first player bets $200 and I raise all-in, an extra $290. We open and sure enough he had 7-K. The river comes and low-and-behold it is a 7….bad, bad beat. This is a friendly cash game and bad beats ussualy get a scratch-and-win lottery ticket but there was none left.

I was thinking I maybe should have bet $100 on the flop but I would have gotten called by the same player because he had trips and no matter what I bet on the turn (if I had more cash) he would have had to call, so I guess I was destined to lose that hand. Feel free to leave comments about your own bad beats.

 So who likes to play games? I do, I do!!! Seriously I am 40 years old but I love to play all sorts of games. I remember when I was young, a pre-teen, my favourite game was monopoly and something called ‘Movie Makers’. I was actually able to find that one on Ebay a few years ago and might break it out to play with my kids soon.

These days you can find a zillion games by heading over to your nearest web browser any typing in free online games, your search will yield tons of great time-wasters from racing games to card games.

One way I have been spending quite a bit of time lately is playing online poker, it is a lot of fun but can be quite addicting. I mostly limit myself to mirco (small bet) tournaments of $1-$2 but I still can manage to lose $50 on a bad week.