Tuesday, 20 May 2008
Bob Dylan's Theme Radio
The big question is what to listen to...while you are playing poker. You could be chatting online but there is no harm in having some appropriate music which sguggests Mississipi. Bob Harris did a theme show the other week from New Orleans which seemed very poker like. Also Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio is cute.
Tuesday, 22 April 2008
Walking Back to Houston*
Some say poker is an art. The cards offer the same palette every time, but in every hand the brush strokes are different.
A poker hand can be mysterious, capricious, spiteful and occasionally magnificent. A hand can be slow. Or it can be a tornado. Fortunes turn around in seconds. It is a game of cunning, skill and bravado. Luck plays its part but in small measures. Instinct, insight and a cool nerve are as important. Perhaps poker is the greatest of all card games.
Poker was first popularised in New Orleans and on the riverboats of the Mississippi, then migrated to the San Francisco gold rush and the civil war. American soldiers took it with them around the world. But variations on poker were well known before then across Europe, as brag in English, poque in France, pochen in Germany. Still earlier betting style games can be traced to Persia and China. Poker is everywhere.
Poker speak has become a part of everyday language - ace in the hole, beats me, blue chip, call one's bluff, cash in, high roller, pass the buck, poker face, stack up, when the chips are down etc
Whether you are expert or a novice, online poker is a different deal. I play here at www.betclick.com every night at eight, if you want to join me. Or bring your friends along and you can start your own poker school.
You can play for free. Or you can gamble for real money. The choice is yours. Personally i think there is no point playing poker without money. Its just w*****
Whether you are a professional or just starting out you will find everything you need right here at BetClick. Your table is waiting for you. Come join me.
* Legendary line given in an interview by world champion TJ Cloutier about some players from Houston who backed an Ace King hand and lost out inevitably to Ace Ace or a flush and had to...
A poker hand can be mysterious, capricious, spiteful and occasionally magnificent. A hand can be slow. Or it can be a tornado. Fortunes turn around in seconds. It is a game of cunning, skill and bravado. Luck plays its part but in small measures. Instinct, insight and a cool nerve are as important. Perhaps poker is the greatest of all card games.
Poker was first popularised in New Orleans and on the riverboats of the Mississippi, then migrated to the San Francisco gold rush and the civil war. American soldiers took it with them around the world. But variations on poker were well known before then across Europe, as brag in English, poque in France, pochen in Germany. Still earlier betting style games can be traced to Persia and China. Poker is everywhere.
Poker speak has become a part of everyday language - ace in the hole, beats me, blue chip, call one's bluff, cash in, high roller, pass the buck, poker face, stack up, when the chips are down etc
Whether you are expert or a novice, online poker is a different deal. I play here at www.betclick.com every night at eight, if you want to join me. Or bring your friends along and you can start your own poker school.
You can play for free. Or you can gamble for real money. The choice is yours. Personally i think there is no point playing poker without money. Its just w*****
Whether you are a professional or just starting out you will find everything you need right here at BetClick. Your table is waiting for you. Come join me.
* Legendary line given in an interview by world champion TJ Cloutier about some players from Houston who backed an Ace King hand and lost out inevitably to Ace Ace or a flush and had to...
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