Poker’s Wild
When my brother and I were kids, we were always loved games, especially board and card games. I’ve lost track of how many different board or card games we had. Our parents were good to us that way, because they knew we’d often rather play games than watch TV.
We particularly loved Blackjack/ 21, but also Poker. We even had fake plastic chips to use, and I must have learned just about every which way to shuffle a deck of cards, with both hands and just one.
One of our fave games was a variation of Poker that we called Poker’s Wild. Dealer got to make up the rules. We’d come up with some of the most insane rules imaginable. I wish my feeble brain could actually remember some of them, but we had a great time.
Now despite concerns these days by many people that being introduced to gambling so early in life would turn us into gambloholics, it didn’t. For example, how many people didn’t play the board games with money such as Monopoly(tm), where the financial stuff seemed even more outrageous than poker. Monopoly seemed pure luck; poker required some skill.
Anyway, despite playing sinful poker at a young age (with play money), my brother turned out incredibly good at saving and investing money. My own finances fluctuate from being quite wealthy to being dirt poor, depending on which year it is. But that’s never because of gambling, and only because of poor business decisions.
It’s just my opinion, but addiction of any form is the symptom, not the cause. And my observation is that addiction is symptomatic of poor self worth, not of any inherent evil in any game of chance, including lotteries (but those are pure luck). I hope that the politicians at Capitol Hill and elsewhere take this into consideration.
By the way, did anyone else notice that Partypoker.net has been partially sponsoring Rockstar Supernova? What’s the connection? Aren’t most of the viewers of the series (other than me) really young?
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