Lady luck is not with me. No it is not.My roommate decided to have a poker game tonight and against my better judgement I decided to join. I put down forty dollars and received my chips ready to see how the night would go.
He decided against playing the traditional game of hold em and stated it would be a dealer's choice night. We played a few rounds of various card games where people were lining up flushes, straights, and other variants of hands that completely annihilated me. After an hours worth of play I finally got my highest hand, triple eights.
Yes that was the best hand I could come up with. Getting tired of just folding all evening I decided to play it not giving a damn if I get cleaned out or not. I was so bored at that point it didn't matter. Sure enough I lost to a full house, to my roommate, the guy I pay rent to. Sigh.
I walked away and thanked everyone for another fun filled evening. Yes folks that was forty bucks well spent.
That was about the 37th straight night of me losing my ass in the first hour or so of cards. A gambler I am not. Considering my luck at the game you would be amazed that I haven't been hit by a bus or kidnapped by Sandinista rebels and thrown into a pit of wild horny bears. Seriously folks if I get crushed by a satellite that somehow missed it's orbit and came crashing back down to Earth don't be surprised.
Luck has much to do with everything. It can dictate how you work, love, or whether you live or die. Sure we can try and put the odds in our favor, but at times we fall victim to circumstances beyond our control. I guess I should consider myself fortunate that my real misfortune is with a card game and I haven't been the victim of a violent crime or been in a fight with Mattbear or Big Ben.
"Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film." - Alfred Hitchcock
4 comments:
I disagree. Although luck does play a role, I think it's your attitude that makes a lot of the decisions.
Yep, luck is a huge factor in the world of card games. I usually have good days and bad days, but mostly bad, and that's why I rarely ever gamble... for money anyways :)
I lose a lot in poker too but the key is to be aggressive.
I don't think you need to be too scared of a fight with me, unless you drive a honda with a crooked license plate and a huge spoiler and you cut me off.
Heh...I didn't win at my weekly game this week either, but I did hit four of a kind on one hand. And on one somebody went all in with a flush and I beat him with a full house.
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