Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="milencenov, post: 4133331, member: 183801"] Wow, this article in such a wonderful way acted like a time machine and brought me back to the years when I was 11-12 years old boy who played poker games with 4 other friends - be it in my home, be it in one of theirs... The years were 1989-1990 and onwards. So, a bit during the communism and a whole lot after it fell. Our game was 5 Card Draw - in my country at that time, this was the game we called "poker". We looked perplexed when in some Hollywood movies, the actors were playing Stud - "WTF is this ?" We did not have a poker table. And we did not like the idea to use a normal table. Our "felt" was a big green carpet with almost no "hair". And we used tailor's chalk to draw "sectors" for each player - the player could do anything in his sector - put his chips, sit down or lie down, even put his ash-tray with a cigarette (LOL, we did not drink, but we smoked like hell). We did not have "normal" chips - so we used backgammon discs. The white were worth 10 Bulgarian cents, and the black were worth 1 Bulgarian lev. In 1989, 1 liter of Coca Cola was worth 1,20 leva. In today's new leva (BGN), 1 liter is 1,80 which is almost exactly equal to 1 $. To give you an idea... We played at 0,10/0,20 blinds. Our stacks were 10 leva each - our pocket money saved over 5 school days in a week... But we increased the means of payment (and wealth measurement). At that time, very popular among kids were the pictures of football players and fancy cars in bubble gum packs. The World Cup in Italy was played in 1990 and photos of Jurgen Klinsmann or Salvatore Schilacci were "hard currency" in our games. At some point, we started using Monopoly money instead of chips. We put seals on their backs, to discourage "smuggling" of Monopoly money from outside. When we grew up to 14-15 years of age, we "escalated" our poker games to full fledged parties, in which poker was just part of the fun. But the best thing from all that is, we remained life long friends. We never cared so much about wins or losses, and we always had fun in those games. And a fun fact: one of my best friends from those games moved with his family to USA and last year, he (already a poker pro) won 1st place in a live event, winning a few hundred thousand dollars. Of course, nothing of what I described can in any way compare to the advises given in the article, but despite that, I still think I and my friends had the perfect home games one can dream for. [/QUOTE]

Verification

Search

Reply to thread

About CardsChat

Our Community

Our Site

Follow us