Tonight Helpdesk Man took it upon himself as the spiritual head of the family to teach me poker. I’d only played once before, a game of Texas Hold’em during a rather disastrous dinner party, at which I was so distracted with a screaming four-month=old snortlepig that I tried to win a hand with three pair. Tonight was somewhat more successful. We played for beans - literally. Kidney beans. We didn’t have any chips and playing for cash seemed a tad redundant given that we share an account. I won several hands, but no games. The pig sampled our olives, played very professionally with the Jokers and kept hiding our beans in her mouth. Anyway, I liked it. I like the faintly Freemason-slash-Star Trek vibe it has, with the jargon and the rapping on the table and the hats and all. Makes me feel classy. What with this and the olives, I have come a long way from the bumpkin of yore, no?
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2 Responses to “Poker”
You’d be classier if you could keep your games straight. The first game you played, with the screaming four-month=old (four months = old? I don’t think think so), was five card stud; not Texas Hold’em. A wholly different animal, and really not a good game to learn on since there are more cards to keep track of.
I play Euchre and 500 with the boy person friend, sometimes. He teaches me to flick the cards in a menacing yet offhanded way when I want another one, or something.