The Poker Room The poker room is a very unique and exciting place‚ but it can also be a frustrating place. Poker is a game for everyone. There are many different types of people in a poker room‚ anywhere from rich to middle class and in some cases lower than that. There are many sights and sounds all around‚ from the people to the décor‚ as well as the materials for the games. Poker consists of lots of different games and there’s usually at least one table for each game type. All of this makes
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is not all sunshine and rainbow in everyone but some that is the best part of their personality and it can change over time in someone either for the greater good or just in a situation. This is shown tremendously in the short story The Outcasts of Poker Flat‚ written by one of the most famous local color writers‚ Bret Harte. This story was written in a time period of 1850’s where the great migration west was in
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can control how or if the die; even if inevitable? This unique story by Francis Bret Harte "The Outcast of Poker Flat"‚ has a grey western setting. Harte explores the mind of a gambler who is exiled from a warped town. Two literary devices regionalism and naturalism content is evident throughout‚ giving the story a feeling of hopelessness of survival. The regionalism in "The Outcast of Poker Flat" separates the characters from the town in such a way that is ironic. "I reckon they are after somebody"
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Vilnius Poker In the book Vilnius Poker by Ricardas Gavelis‚ Vytautas Vargalys is an intelligent‚ unstable 53-year-old that works as a librarian. He is completely out of his mind and suffers from paranoia and other diseases. Vytautas is in love with a woman he works with named Lolita‚ who is a young woman in her twenty’s who works at the library. The setting of the novel takes place during the soviet times at Vilnius and the story is told through four narrators. Vytautas is a survivor of the
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Yao The Rules and Mechanics of Limit Hold’em It is expected that the reader of this book has some experience playing Limit Hold’em and is not a complete novice. For completeness‚ the rules of the game along with some poker terminology is included. Limit Texas Hold’em is a form of poker with community cards. The rankings of the hands are in order: Rank Royal Flush Straight Flush Four-of-a-kind Full House Flush Straight Three-of-a-kind Two pair One Pair High Card Example A♠-K♠-Q♠-J♠-T♠ K♣-Q♣-J♣-T♣-9♣
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Lethargy Many pro poker players use the game as a means to escape from responsibility. They don’t want to have to wake up on time‚ show up to work on time‚ and take orders from superiors. They are often victims of too much freedom. Excessive freedom causes many of them to lose sense of purpose. This is when things start to unravel for them. They start hitting the snooze button on the alarm a few too many times. Running late‚ they skip basic hygiene practices like taking a shower and brushing their
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Speaking of regionalistic qualities‚ The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and The Outcasts of Poker Flat are very much alike when it comes to their characters. The dialect used in both stories indicates that the setting must be somewhere in the “Wild West”. For example‚ in Twain’s story‚ Simon Wheeler is telling the narrator tall tales about some fellow named Jim Smiley and his tone tells you exactly the type of man he is: somewhat unintelligent compared to the narrator. The sentence structure
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Steven Touitou I remember the first time having play poker ‚ I was maybe 10 years old and were looking at my older brother playing in the living room with their friends ‚ I already knew the rules that my father thought me few years ago but that was the first time I was introduces to Texas Hold’em a different variance that became the most popular game of poker. As soon as the group left the table ‚ I remember grabbing the deck of card dealt myself two cards‚ draw five cards on the board and
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Total Opposites In the short story "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte‚ the author uses characters in the story that have very similar characteristics‚ except for one‚ "Uncle Billy." John Oakhurst is a big time gambler in Poker Flat. He took large sums of money from many people in town. The residents of Poker Flat were very upset with him always winning bets and all of their money. Out of all the people that are banned from Poker Flat‚ Oakhurst possesses the best qualities out of the group
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Liar’s Poker‚ written by Michael Lewis‚ is a book describing the day to day challenges and life of traders at Salomon Brothers and other such investment banks. The book starts with the description of Liar’s Poker game which is played on the trading floors of Salomon Brothers Inc. The boss‚ John Gutfreund‚ himself challenges the best player in the firm John Merriweather who also happened to be the best trader of the firm. Gutfreund proposed an offer of a single hand of Liar’s Poker worth a million
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