Reply to thread

Message

[QUOTE="pogreshilly, post: 724775, member: 34427"]
I'm going to ignore all the gun-control-related off-topicalia (and here I include those both for and against it, since this is cardschat not politicschat). Hot-button issues bore me silly, and besides I'm Canadian and we already have fairly stiff gun control up here.
 
Shooting someone you thought cheated you at poker is a time-old tradition dating back to the earliest days of the game. The only diff is back then it took longer to load the musket. But even then not everybody shot everybody he took a bad beat from. It depended on whom you played with, which basically depended on whom you hung out with. A guy with 18 prior convictions is unlikely to just go "aw shucks" when he gets upset about [I]anything[/I]. So IMO the poker angle here is a mirage. This is a story about some career baddies getting violent over an illegal financial transaction gone sour, same as a drug deal.
 
If you fancy yourself a good poker player then you should be able to get a read on people when you first meet them before going to one of their homes for a game. Oh, you mean you don't first go for a beer at a bar with the guys you intend to play with, in order to get to know them? Silly you.
[/QUOTE]

Verification

Search

Reply to thread

About CardsChat

Our Community

Our Site

Follow us