Poker
Posted by Nathaniel.
It hasn’t been all work.
There are a few issues with playing poker down here that I’m trying to sort out.
First of all, people blab to everyone when there’s going to be a poker game which results in way too many invites being given out. The last game had 10 people, about half of which were newbies. It doesn’t make for a fast-paced exciting game and it’s going to be tricky to figure out a way to non-invite people.
Second, poker games have ringleaders. I figure that, when I was there, Chris and I were co-ringleaders. We generally thought that games should run the same way, agreed on the people that should be there, etc… The co-ringleader here actually goes to Vegas to play once or twice a year and has very set ideas of how things should run. Chips MUST be put into the pot at the end of each round of betting. Cards MUST be collected by the dealer whenever someone flops. I don’t really have anything against the rules, but it slows the game down. More so when you have a lot of people just learning the game and things are going slow anyway. Maybe I’ll start solving the numbers problem by not inviting him. 