Texas Fold'Em
I discovered that a friend I had not seen since High School lived in the area and accepted his offer to play cards with him and his friends. I knew that it was poker, had directions, and no idea what to expect.
Turns out there were a dozen people and the game was Texas Hold'Em. I suspected that would be the game, ever since ESPN coverage of the World Series of Poker Hold'Em has been tremendeously popular, but I was a little surprised by the number of people. I expected a small game at someone's house, not a real tournament.
They used cards to divide the lot into two tables with two games, which immediately separated me from the only person I knew and deposited me at a table full of people that all knew each other well and all had at least 15 years on me too. By the luck of the draw I had to deal the first hand. Any pretense was out the window at that point - I had no clue how to deal for this game.
Other mishaps along the way included throwing in a hand I could have seen for free by the compulsion of the blind bid, forgetting the value system of the chips, being reprimanded for "taking the cards off the table", and ultimately ended up being the first to lose all his chips - rather early in fact.
I was in the house for maybe an hour and a half and probably spent more time waiting for the game to start than actually playing. I am not bad at cards, in fact I won a Spades tournament in college, and I normally go into games expecting to win. Lisa asked what was wrong when I returned so early, she was used to my card games taking hours on end rather than one hour. In the end it was probably best I left early since I realisticly had little chance with a new game at a table of strangers that all knew each other well. I missed out on the entire point of my presence too - I barely said much to my old buddy. In hindsight I felt I was really dealt poor cards too. I only raised on three hands, the only three times that I received face cards. The hand I ultimately lost was not that bad either - I had 3 of a kind but someone else had a low straight.
I think that I'll stick to other games in the future though, rather than repeat my Texas Fold'Em experience.
Turns out there were a dozen people and the game was Texas Hold'Em. I suspected that would be the game, ever since ESPN coverage of the World Series of Poker Hold'Em has been tremendeously popular, but I was a little surprised by the number of people. I expected a small game at someone's house, not a real tournament.
They used cards to divide the lot into two tables with two games, which immediately separated me from the only person I knew and deposited me at a table full of people that all knew each other well and all had at least 15 years on me too. By the luck of the draw I had to deal the first hand. Any pretense was out the window at that point - I had no clue how to deal for this game.
Other mishaps along the way included throwing in a hand I could have seen for free by the compulsion of the blind bid, forgetting the value system of the chips, being reprimanded for "taking the cards off the table", and ultimately ended up being the first to lose all his chips - rather early in fact.
I was in the house for maybe an hour and a half and probably spent more time waiting for the game to start than actually playing. I am not bad at cards, in fact I won a Spades tournament in college, and I normally go into games expecting to win. Lisa asked what was wrong when I returned so early, she was used to my card games taking hours on end rather than one hour. In the end it was probably best I left early since I realisticly had little chance with a new game at a table of strangers that all knew each other well. I missed out on the entire point of my presence too - I barely said much to my old buddy. In hindsight I felt I was really dealt poor cards too. I only raised on three hands, the only three times that I received face cards. The hand I ultimately lost was not that bad either - I had 3 of a kind but someone else had a low straight.
I think that I'll stick to other games in the future though, rather than repeat my Texas Fold'Em experience.
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