Some of them liked to spend the evening playing poker – albeit with very low stakes in the penny range. Nevertheless, not everyone approved. When the plants were finally approved, the HB team was free to leave – but was thwarted by a delay of several hours at Varna airport. The evening poker game was back on the cards as a way to pass the time. One of the employees – who’d kept a low profile at both the social gatherings and poker games – again took offense at the poker antics and threatened to report the behavior to Managing Director Rudolf Haver upon his return. But the poker players didn’t take any notice. On the contrary. They used one of the critic’s toilet visits to raise the penny stakes to 20 and 50 DM bills. The critic was outraged, to say the least. What he couldn’t have guessed, though: the other players had marked their tickets so everyone would get back the “stake” they’d played for pretend.
