7 Lessons I’ve learned from no-limit poker:
1. 4th place is the worst: In a ten-player poker tournment, three places play. If you come in fourth, you didn’t just waste money – you also wasted time. The person who came in 10th has just as much money as you, and he’s two hours ahead of you in the next game.
2. You can only win what you risk: If you don’t throw it in the middle, you can’t make anything with it.
3. Pick Your Moment: You have to wait for opportunity.
4. Own Your Moment: When it’s your moment, move. Go big or go home. Or someone else will take your moment.
5. No one is ever really bluffing: Sure, sometimes someone holds out with bad cards, but no one really bluffs in the sense that the lay person imagines. Even a cold bluff is a legitimate attempt to win.
6. Winning is just step one: Sometimes you will also need a plan to get out of the room with what you’ve won.
7. Make a play or fold the hand. You see something you want? See someone you like? Shove the chips in the middle or forget about it.
Lyric for the day:
He deals the cards as a meditation
And those he plays never suspect
He doesn’t play for the money he wins
He don’t play for respect
He deals the cards to find the answer
The sacred geometry of chance
The hidden law of a probable outcome
The numbers lead a dance
I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But that’s not the shape of my heart
The Police/Sting, Shape of My Heart
1 lesson I’ve learned from no-limit poker.
Blonde cowards like me who can’t remember if a full house beats a flush, and wear their emotions on their sleeve…should not even bother to play.
I can however, drive a getaway car like nobody’s business. I’ll be in the alley, engine runnin’, waitin’.
Is this a five card stud game? (The only REAL poker). You already start with half the deck gone, so it sounds interesting if you got TEN players playing on the same deck
THAT is a game i would dig geting into
That song SO isn’t a Police song… it was on Sting’s fourth solo album, Ten Summoner’s Tales. There is also an impossible to find alternate version, with an extended guitar intro by Domick Miller, released as part of the movie Leon. However, that version didn’t appear on the soundtrack. Crying fucking shame, too, because the extended intro is AMAZING.
I’m not TOO big a fan of Sting. 😉
I am NOT a PEEP, young man. Peeps are peculiarly disturbing, with all their identical meltable visages staring from behind the cellophane–and I don’t even desire to contemplate their pseudo-mallow texture. Never in my life have I actually bitten into one of those perverse entities. Why don’t you engage in a game of poker in which everyone plays for Peeps?
“Thank God I’m Female”
Poker is fun.
My tip is don’t go in with any money you don’t plan to lose.
nice nice nice
=D
Ah … but sweet thang … in regards to the comment you left at my place …
All four aces in a Tarot mean divine help. That’s good.
All four eights mean that mind, body, soul and money are working at odds, and I already knew that. Eights bring bad news, it’s power all wrapped up with no where to go. That’s what’s happening now … I’ve been dealing with it.
The Dueces suggest balance … especially since you said that they were the two black ones, eh?
That’s the two of cups, and the two of pentacles.
One suggests reconcilation (that’s me getting back to my sister, YaY!) and the other means change.
I’d say I’m right on track.
Big Hugs and Kisses to you for pulling my cards honey.
I needed that. You rock.
ARGH! Wait … I pulled out my notes, my bad. I had it bassackward. The black ones are the clubs and the spades. Ahem. Regardless of what the Stinger sez … It’s wands and swords. Swords represent the intellect and wands represent the physical action of the intellect. The two of wands represents making choices, and action, the two of swords is making that action with the consequences unclear.
yah. Dis I knew …
Either way, I’m makin’ my break, I’m starting with a clean slate, as clean as it can be, all things considered.
~smooches again~
The four suits in a conventional deck of cards correspond to feudal classes.
Spades = Nobility
Hearts = Clergy
Diamonds = Merchants
Clubs = Peasants.
“Shape of my Heart” by the Backstreet Boys is another good song. You should post those lyrics up sometime too.
Um. . . I don’t think that’ll work.
6 seat SnG at Ultimate? Ooh… I gotta join.
Kenny Rogers had something to say about this matter….. shit I forgot what it was….. screw it, all in!…..
ha ha i bet if i knew what nolimit poker was that would make a little more sense!! 😛
**Tara**
p.s. I put over $250 freaking dollars into my car this weekend…and what did it do today? yep it died again! ahhh!!
I don’t know how to play poker and I find it sad because instead my friends and I have to play Strip BlackJack.
It’s fun, but not as satisfying.
~Sarah