In the early 20th century, a group of middle-aged uncles in the small town of Lobus, Texas, were tired of the small town life of hunting and drinking every day.
They picked up their poker and invented a poker game where they could sit in a bar and join in at any time.
They may not have thought that it was the emergence of this game that changed the way the world thinks about gambling.
Even 70 years later, the game was recognized by the world and hosted its first international tournament in Las Vegas.
This is Texas Hold'em that has been popular in the United States for more than a century.
Texas Hold'em: Each player has two hole cards, and the dealer deals 5 community cards in the order of 3, 1, and 1. The player uses the 2 hole cards in his hand and the 5 community cards on the table to combine the 5 cards with the largest face to compare the size. In order to ensure the technicality of the game and the importance of funds, the player must first choose to bet or leave the field before the dealer deals each time.
KGB is the head of a Russian gang in New York.
Tonight his underground casino will be waiting for a young man.
This young man's name is Mike . He's going to spend all his tuition on a
ticket to Las Vegas. For the young man, it's already a full house. Mike certainly wasn't impulsive . He could even be said to be talented. Mike said in Texas Hold'em, it's not the cards that you want to win, it's the people who sit at the table for more than 30 minutes and don't find something that needs to be played. The lamb that was slaughtered, then you are likely to be that lamb . The behavior of a rookie and a tender bird never escapes Mike's eyes , the nervous expression of smoking, the hand that covers his mouth when stealing chickens, and the seriousness of his posture when he gets a good card. Mungin's strength , Mike knows all this, but Mike loses
All my savings vanished in one night
. Dreams vanished between five cards of poker. Mike
swore that he would never touch poker again.
He changed his mind
and worked in the middle of the night and went to school during the day . A good lawyer bug, a standard libertine who makes a living by gambling, owes a lot of gambling debts , and smells like a loser. He doesn't have the talent for reading cards like Mike. Will you receive it as soon as you see it? There's no such idiom in the worm's dictionary to catch a stupid fat sheep, he must loot from head to toe You can pluck the wool many times, but you can only pluck the sheep's skin once The worm who often walks by the river will definitely get his shoes wet He provokes Russia The gangster owes a lot of money , good brother Mike made a surety for him . Within 120 hours, he will use $1200 to turn the book to $15000 . After all, poker is not a brick . Can't hear about the losers in the gamble because they all end up as corpses in the trash or dead in a foreign land All losing gamblers are the same, escape is their philosophy of life The bug escaped and left everything to Mike this The Chinese title of Mike, who can become a lawyer himself , is very Chinese in translation, but the translation is very unsuccessful. The king of gambling kings sounds like the handsome and unbeatable Chow Yun-fat, the invincible stud at the gaming table, or the eccentric Stephen Chow who can make an ace of spades by rubbing the cards with both hands.
I prefer the original title of the movie: rounders, which translates to libertine, which means habitual offender. In Texas Hold'em, there is no invincibility, and even if you can actually draw an ace of spades, it won't help you much.
Rounders, most of the gamblers sitting at the poker tables are rounders. Because they are always thinking, when can they win back the money they lost, as if after winning back, their messed up life can be cleaned up and started from scratch.
Texas Hold'em is not mahjong, nor is it fighting landlords, nor is it one person who deals three cards and shouts black 20 and black 50 hard.
The Texas Hold'em World Championship has been held for 48 times so far this year. The final table is generally filled with old faces. There may be one or two young dark horses, but most of them must have been in the last or the last one. sat at the same table.
In a Texas Hold'em game, luck is only a tiny part of it. A poker player is playing against a rookie, and even if the rookie has a good night's cards, he can't escape the fate of being looted.
In China, if you want to see a person's hidden nature, the quickest and most direct way is to play a few games of chess with this person. His killing is resolute, and he is timid or cowardly. Above the Hehan Realm.
In the US, they use Texas Hold'em.
In the past two years, in China's Internet venture capital circle, investors have begun to prefer to play Texas Hold'em to see whether an entrepreneur is worth investing in. Because these capitalists found that starting a business and playing poker are strikingly similar.
It is not uncommon for people to be beaten with a good hand of cards, and it is not uncommon for them to be abused by button players who start with a few thousand dollars after taking hundreds of thousands of dollars to the table.
Good products are eliminated by inferior markets, and projects developed with a lot of money are burned to the ground. In the Internet circle, there are countless numbers.
Like Mike said,
it's not the cards that matter, it's the people.
No matter what the cards are, those who come into the game with a firm bet in every game must be eager to have fun.
No matter how low the winning rate is, those who always stubbornly believe that the last card will bring about a reversal must be lucky.
People who are reluctant to put in the chips and follow to the end will definitely not be decisive enough.
Seeing that there are not many chips left in their hands, it is easy for those who gamble the life of ALL IN with their opponents to give up on themselves.
Whether a person can overcome the weakness of human nature, dozens of Texas hold 'em down is as clear as the mirror.
Is Texas Hold'em considered gambling?
This is up to the player himself.
Most gambling games are designed to lure players away to win or lose outright.
Texas Hold'em is just the opposite. It requires players to be self-disciplined. It requires you to continuously improve your ability to manage your emotions and wealth. It requires you to become more rational, and not to affect the overall outcome of a game.
The charm of Texas Hold'em is that some people are all in, and some people can't.
To gamble or not to gamble, no one can control you.
I can understand people who like to gamble because the stress of life is often overwhelming. As long as you pick up your hand, it's a safe haven, and a straight flush is the world.
I've even met a few talented gamblers whose prodigal qualities particularly appeal to me. They spend far more time on poker than we do on Weibo or WeChat. The best of them are buying houses and cars at a young age.
However, if they were given another chance to come back, they said, they would rather not gamble for the rest of their lives. They lived like addicts, unable to escape or break free. They are always irritable after leaving the poker table, feeling like they are doing nothing and doing nothing. There is a rare sense of security and a moment of tranquility only when you hold the chips in your hands.
Mike in the movie made a big gamble with his life in a desperate situation, and the winner was not a beautiful car, nor a bright future. It happened to be the $30,000 he lost at the beginning, and what he bought with his life was a chance to start from scratch.
What he lost was his brother, his partner, and his studies.
What is lost is lost forever.
Come again, there are some, will not come again.
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