PokerNeal
09-05-2004, 01:00 AM
Not long ago a Texas newspaper published an article that went along the following theme...
"Anyone can win in poker! Say, you hold 6-3. The flop is 6-3-3. You flopped a full-house which is one of the biggest hands in poker! You have just won that hand with next to no effort!"
Unlike Golf or Basketball or any other major sport, poker holds the promise of alluring riches to just about anybody. The logic goes that two cards in the hand and 5 on the table ain't that difficult to master. The result? I predict we have what is the biggest sport to hit North America and the world.
Forget that little detail that any dummy can play good cards. To win in poker you must know how to play bad cards. You must know how to handle a long spell of dry and decidedly ugly card runs and hang in there until the going gets better. You must know how to fake a hand that you don't have and take money off the table. Never mind all that. Remember that 6-3 hand with a flop that gave you the full house? That will keep them coming off the couch and the back alleys in the hopes of making it big. They know too well they don't cut the grade in Golf or basketball or Chess or any other sport.... But poker? Man, all I need are some good cards and I take the crown baby!
"Anyone can win in poker! Say, you hold 6-3. The flop is 6-3-3. You flopped a full-house which is one of the biggest hands in poker! You have just won that hand with next to no effort!"
Unlike Golf or Basketball or any other major sport, poker holds the promise of alluring riches to just about anybody. The logic goes that two cards in the hand and 5 on the table ain't that difficult to master. The result? I predict we have what is the biggest sport to hit North America and the world.
Forget that little detail that any dummy can play good cards. To win in poker you must know how to play bad cards. You must know how to handle a long spell of dry and decidedly ugly card runs and hang in there until the going gets better. You must know how to fake a hand that you don't have and take money off the table. Never mind all that. Remember that 6-3 hand with a flop that gave you the full house? That will keep them coming off the couch and the back alleys in the hopes of making it big. They know too well they don't cut the grade in Golf or basketball or Chess or any other sport.... But poker? Man, all I need are some good cards and I take the crown baby!