No choice for destiny

Orland 2021-11-16 08:01:27

The 2012 WSOP championship is finally out. When I saw the final hand of the final table on YouTube, Merson took Kd5d all in. In the end, he took away more than 8 million US dollars with the high card, which is really amazing.

The game table and the cash table are indeed very different. The strategies and skills are different. The influence of luck can almost completely determine the final fate of a player in a fatal game, but it is undeniable that there is no excellence. It's impossible to sit on the final table with skills as the foundation.

I have been exposed to Texas Hold'em for more than a year. I have always played cash tables, from limited to no-limit, and slowly grew from the original fish. Although it is not a shark now, at least it can eat a lot of fish. . The Texas Hold'em at cash tables has never been a paradise for gambling enthusiasts. Technology is the foundation of long-term profitability, and luck will only bring occasional fluctuations.

My card friends are from all over the world, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Taiwanese, Hong Kongers, Singaporeans, Indians, Australians, Swedes, Americans, French, Egyptians, Filipinos, British People, Italians, etc., have never seen African brothers, occasionally there are mainlanders, but there are very few, basically fish. The global popularity of Texas Hold'em is evident from this. It was indeed quite a challenge for me to join this level of poker table at the beginning. At first, I paid thousands of dollars in tuition fee ignorantly, and then I won it back slowly. Now I can earn thousands of dollars every month. The stable recording of the stock market slightly made up for the loss of the stock market.

You can also see the personality of each person through the performance at the poker table. The modest and prudent Japanese are always rigorous at the poker table, and the Korean sticks are basically the performance of the club, which is similar to the scatter boy, the Indians are always happy, and for them, they lose again. Many seem to be inferior to the fun of occasionally bluffing a small win. Compared to Asians, Europeans and Americans are always stingy and stingy. This seems to have something to do with the economic level. They are basically conservative and streamlined. There are more tight and aggressive players, and they have little profit from fighting against them, but they are suffering. You can also hear English with various accents at the poker table, and the attendance rate of "fuck" is always the highest.

The filming of the Texas Hold'em card game in the movie is really not real enough, it can only deceive the layman. At the beginning of the game where Matt Damon lost all his chips, basically not many players could escape such traps, except for occasionally seeing such classic folds in high stakes poker. Losing such cards can only be said to be due to the lack of cash management of the male protagonist. All the bets should not be placed, and it is not that the card skills are too bad. As for the KGB at the end of the game with a pair of AA consecutive bets, the final all-in behavior is also incredible. For a good player, there must be a reason for the opponent to call the high stakes continuously, regardless of whether the opponent draws on the river or not. When it comes to nuts, you shouldn't continue betting, not to mention that you are still in a disadvantageous position. This setting in the movie can only be seen as a plot need, after all, the ending of the hero is to go to Las Vegas to become a pro player.

Many people think that Texas Hold'em is a gambling game, and it is true for fish. But look at the WSOP. Many of the world’s top championships of the WPT are invincible by winning several consecutive games. In a casino where luck decides the winner, there is never a long victory general. The so-called gambling kings are all open. Casinos make money by drawing money instead of gambling. Therefore, it is more appropriate to regard Texas Hold'em as a competitive sport. The competition is intellectual and psychological. The only difference from chess is that luck occasionally requires a little help, but it is by no means a decisive factor.

I don't like gambling. I never play mahjong, and I never play gambling games such as baccarat, blackjack, and slot machines. But I feel more and more that life is a gamble. We all came to this world with a probability of one in a billion. Facing the unpredictable journey of life, it’s like everyone is holding a pair of their own. Hole cards, facing the unknowable flop, turn and river cards, every choice you make now will bring unpredictable results after the next unknown card is turned over. Some people hold good cards. In the end, we lost. Some people took the bad cards and finally won them all, and our love and hatred were entangled in the countless unknown cards that were randomly turned over.

After I bet all the happiness of my life in a love, but finally got nothing, then I can only be willing to bet and lose. So I fully understand the depression and confusion of nothing after Matt Damon lost his future and lost love. But as the professor said, our destiny chooses us. Now I have a new understanding of life. The past is not important. On the way to the future, I think I will meet a gentle, delicate and sensitive girl. I want to take her around the world, far away from the mediocre and shallow. Life, embrace a different kind of life with the most free attitude.

If this girl shows up, then I will still be all in. Because that is my destiny.

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Rounders quotes

  • Worm: [to Roman and Maurice, chastising them for deliberately speaking Russian to each other while playing poker] You wanna see the seventh card, stop speaking fucking sputnik! I'm sure you guys were talking about Pierogies and snow but let's cut that out.

  • Worm: [Pretending to be a sore loser at the college fraternity game] Like my uncle Les used to say "When the money is gone, it's time to move on". So enjoy it, you secret handshaking assholes.