Punkass Poker
Published by Lisa Kansas April 19th, 2008 in Punkass!, Poker
I play poker. More specifically, I play (by preference) no-limit Texas Hold ‘Em. I have also been known to play limit and pot-limit Texas Hold ‘Em, Omaha Hi,
five-card draw, seven-card stud and Razz—but really, my heart belongs to no-limit Texas Hold ‘Em. (Isn’t that sweet?) S’matter of fact, I am playing it right NOW! (In the big blind with 6 4 offsuit, nobody raised, flop was 9 6 4 rainbow, sweeeeet! Gotta love those big blind specials, cause normally 6 4 regardless of suitedness makes me break out in hives, I fold that shit so fast.)
I love to talk about poker. Love, love loooooove to talk about it–I can apply it to pretty much any situation in life, get deep philosophical insights out of it, can discuss strategies and the role of pure statistical chance in the various forms of the game til the wee hours of the night, you name it! However, I’m thinking that if someone has no interest in poker, reading a blog post about it would be about as entertaining as watching paint dry. So, I am not gonna blog about it if nobody out there shares the ecstasy.
So let me know if there’s any interest! (and if I hear crickets chirping instead, I will switch back to my usual horror-tinged mockery of society, which I love ALMOST as much)
Cheers,
Lisa KS
I *can* play poker, or at least I have in the past. I just suck at it, because everyone always knows what I’m thinking and I never know what they’re thinking, and I’m rubbish at strategy. I suspect that you and I have fundamentally different kinds of minds, but I would still like to hear what analogies you can draw.
I love reading about card games in general, but the poker craze has gone straight over my head; I barely know the rules and I don’t speak the language at all. So I would love to read about poker & learn more about it, but some Poker-To-English translations would really help me out.
Please share. I’m more of a blackjack person, but I’ve been known to gain and lose entire empires at poker tables.
As long as you don’t talk about craps. Fucking craps.
Love me some poker.