12/28/2023 0 Comments The one with the poker friendsAnd finally, the ability to play the imaginary hand you want your opponents to think you hold.Īnd that’s the key. First, the ability to understand your hand. I’ve never met a rookie yet who can’t get to grips with it inside five hands, provided they’ve got a scribbled list of card rankings next to them and someone to politely confirm that, “No, five ‘reds’ does not constitute a flush.” Poker may initially seem complex, but it’s weirdly intuitive. A host of contestants appear, we come to know them over a series of heats, we say goodbye to them one by one. It is a game whose key tenets have been copied shamelessly by those awful talent shows that dominate on both sides of the Atlantic. Poker is a game of secrets and lies, best played with friends you must immediately treat as enemies. But a lifetime spent consuming US television taught me that poker is a game to be played in darkened rooms, slouching under an umbrella of thick, blue cigar smoke while jokes and jibes are exchanged to a soundtrack of Johnny Cash albums. In England, card games always seemed serious affairs with people sat straight-backed at tables concentrating in silence. It’s possible that I’ve been seduced by all the Americana.
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