DrStrange
4 of a Kind
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I am gathering supplies for feeding the crew at the deli counter. (dinner is a cold cut bar + navy bean/ham soup) It is a nice pile of meat in cheese to have sliced. The store isn't very busy and I have two guys preparing my order.
They ask what I am doing with such a large amount of meat. I say its for poker tonight. One thing leads to another and they finally plead with me to invite them to the game. So I say we are playing 1-2. "What's that?" they ask. "It is a cash game - $1 small blind $2 big blind", I reply. "Typical buy in is $200, but normally a player would expect to buy in a couple of times a night."
They want to know how much someone might bet in such a game. I warn them that people commonly bet hundreds of dollars on a hand and would specifically target someone who looked weak with big bets to test their resolve.
You could see by the looks on their faces that such an idea had never crossed these guys minds. I asked, they play in free-roll bar games and $10 home tournament games. Never heard of a cash game before, never played in one either.
Perspective - - - - A typical weekly take home pay for someone like these men is ~$350 if they don't have insurance taken out. So a 1-2 game is basically buying in for a week's pay. Even a micro stakes $0.25 / $0.50 is too high stakes for workers like this.
I guess it is easy to forget that what I see as causal fun with my friends is "crazy, irresponsible" gambling for lots of other people.
I didn't invite them, it isn't appropriate to put someone at that kind of risk -=- DrStrange
They ask what I am doing with such a large amount of meat. I say its for poker tonight. One thing leads to another and they finally plead with me to invite them to the game. So I say we are playing 1-2. "What's that?" they ask. "It is a cash game - $1 small blind $2 big blind", I reply. "Typical buy in is $200, but normally a player would expect to buy in a couple of times a night."
They want to know how much someone might bet in such a game. I warn them that people commonly bet hundreds of dollars on a hand and would specifically target someone who looked weak with big bets to test their resolve.
You could see by the looks on their faces that such an idea had never crossed these guys minds. I asked, they play in free-roll bar games and $10 home tournament games. Never heard of a cash game before, never played in one either.
Perspective - - - - A typical weekly take home pay for someone like these men is ~$350 if they don't have insurance taken out. So a 1-2 game is basically buying in for a week's pay. Even a micro stakes $0.25 / $0.50 is too high stakes for workers like this.
I guess it is easy to forget that what I see as causal fun with my friends is "crazy, irresponsible" gambling for lots of other people.
I didn't invite them, it isn't appropriate to put someone at that kind of risk -=- DrStrange
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