Word: pokerful
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...second, most productive time, which gave me enough knowledge to fake my way through subsequent games with Kyle, was one winter night in Straus. One of my dormmates and I were waiting for the others to come back from a poker game and I mentioned casually that I’d never learned to play. We fetched a pack of cards, and made a resoultion that I should be taught immediately...
...different hands—one pair, two pair, three of a kind, straight, flush—all the terms that I’ve heard for years and years but that still sounded unfamiliar, and when he had finished explaining we were done. I had “learned poker...
...really, of course. Despite these efforts I still shy away from a deck of cards and a suggestion of a friendly game. I’m cut off from a whole world of poker references and from ever fully understanding those famous movie scenes. Is there a reason? Repressed anxiety? Underlying sexism in the world of gambling...
Perhaps, but the main reason I’ve never played poker is that I haven’t accepted the element of randomization/luck/fate involved in every card game. Poker requires you not merely to accept, but to enjoy and revel in the random distribution of the cards. This, I think, is the crux of my frustration. If you’re not able to accept the cards you’ve been given, if you’re not able to rejoice when fortune throws you a good hand even though you had nothing to do with...
...land themselves at Harvard, and have mapped out the next 20 years of their lives to land themselves at—pick a destination—Wall Street, The New York Times, Hollywood, Oxford? To accept the fact that I can’t control the content of my poker hand would open up the possibility that my carefully drawn plans for graduate school, careers, fame and a daughter named Molly are equally susceptible to the luck of the draw...