Re: OT: Poker comes in handy @ work (no content, you\'ve been warned, etc.)
When he asks for "some terms he can learn so he doesn't look like a retard" you really missed an opportunity. Feed him a number of colorful names for starting hands. Just make it up on the fly.
Pocket 77 = hanging monkeys
J8 = fishing for snowmen
K9 = doggy patrol
66 = buddas.
Seriously -- you could have generated a lot of entertaining stories; your boss would very likely not be embarassed because most at the home game would love to learn the "lingo" of the true playas - your boss may in fact be the hit of the game; and depending on the characters involved in the home game, you could be laughing 3 years from now when Van Patten or whoever whispers "oh he's decided to play the suited 'fishing for snowmen' here - watch out" on some televised tourney.
Reasonably nh anyway.
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