Don’t suddenly blurt out the word, “Gin!” unless that’s what you’re drinking.
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If you get a lot of straight-flushes, you WILL get shot from time to time.
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If the guy next to you is showing two aces and you’re showing a possible flush, you’re both going to lose to the guy who bets completely at random and has no idea how to play poker.
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We’ve all played dice games as kids, but don’t lay down a “small straight” or, even worse, “Chance”. Also, don’t blurt out “Yahtzee” unless that’s what you’re drinking.
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If you see that someone has slightly bent an ace so they can keep track of where it is, you can either complain and get a new deck, or bend a few of the low cards and put them back into the deck.
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Never play high stakes poker with a guy named “Fingers”… unless he has no fingers; then, the name is just delightfully ironic.
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Very important to the game of poker is a person’s “tell”… unconscious behaviors that indicate a good or bad hand. A tell might be subtle, like an eye twitch or how they handle their chips; it might also be less subtle like loudly lamenting, “I’ve destroyed myself financially!” and taking poison…
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To hide facial expressions or eye movement, many top players wear sunglasses or ball caps when they play. How do I know an article of clothing is appropriate for a poker game? Does it make you look like a complete and utter tool? Put it on and ante up!
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The dream of every poker player is to find a rube and take every cent of his money and leave him a dried out suicidal husk. If, after four hands, you haven’t spotted the rube, the rube is you…
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If you go all in, then ask for five cards and then win the hand, no one will want to play with you anymore…
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I like to randomly shout “Gin!” just on the off chance someone will pour me one.
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I yell out “gin!” when I want Eli Whitney to turn around…
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Raising the dead with alcohol is just wrong.
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A pair beats a full house…It doesn’t?…uh-oh…
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Well, I’m not about to play against you…
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Not a lot of places making Yahtzee and Tonics anymore. Quite disappointing.
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I like to drink my Yahtzee straight…
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So many of these are spot on! 🤣🤣🤣
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Very funny!
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Ever since I was hit in the face with a poker, I’ve been called Scarface, even though I don’t play poker.and don’t look like Al Capone.,,,but I’m not complaining, because if people called me who I look like, they might call me Bugsy.
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Overbite or freakish antennae?
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Yahtzee!
(Side note: you’ve got to stop publishing on days I don’t randomly read blog posts…)
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Saturday isn’t my normal day but it had been a while…
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i’ve never played poker, betting i’d be the rube
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Maybe you are the rube in the third item in the list, Deb…
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Oh well, at least I’m something
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Don’t have an existential crises, Deb. Existence precedes essence, you know…
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