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With the mind-boggling surge in the popularity of poker in the past few years, the game is attracting record numbers of players to casinopoker rooms, online poker sites and home games across the planet. Never before has so much media attention been paid to the classic game that rewards skill, mental dexterity, money management, bluffing, luck, patience, deductive reasoning, and an all-around killer instinct.
Anyone who plays the game has dozens of stories of bad beats, classic confrontations and dramatic battles over the green felt. This is not surprising considering the infinite possibilities that arise when you combine a 52-card deck with a group of players bent on relieving their opponents of all their hard-earned money.
------------ Richard Nixon's poker career Former U.S. President Richard Nixon reportedly financed his first political campaign with money he won playing poker in the U.S. Navy during World War II. The winnings helped pay for his successful U.S. Congress run in 1946. Apparently, Nixon decided that his lucrative pastime would not sit well as his political career gained momentum, and he gave up poker in 1952 when he became Dwight Eisenhower's running mate.
Cool Fact: In his autobiography, Nixon wrote: "I learned that the people who have the cards are usually the ones who talk the least and the softest; those who are bluffing tend to talk loudly and give themselves away
------------ lus the legend of Poker Alice One of the most memorable wild women of the old west, Poker Alice moved to Colorado from England in the 1860s and eventually married a mining engineer who played cards at local gambling parlors. Alice accompanied her husband, learned the games and began playing for a living after her spouse died. She earned the name Poker Alice and quite a reputation to boot. By the end of the gold rush, Alice had made over $5,000 (an enormous amount for those days) and moved to New York to retire. In her lifetime, the wild woman shot two men, killing one, and eventually opened an establishment which was a combination of a card room and a brothel plus the .... Cool Fact: Despite her wild ways, Alice refused to play or deal cards on Sunday, and chose to teach Sunday school lessons to her fellow ladies.
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Hello all the wonderful mobsters out there, this is your friend pochui from Lithuania, somewhere near the sea writing to you, wish a good day to each and everyone of you.
long post, did you get 10 mobpoints for it?
I am very happy to be a part of such a great community, wish you the best of luck at the tables, off the tables, behind the tables, under the tables and in your life in general. Yours truly pochui, somewhere near the sea, Lithuania
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Posted by pochui: Hello all the wonderful mobsters out there, this is your friend pochui from Lithuania, somewhere near the sea writing to you, wish a good day to each and everyone of you.
long post, did you get 10 mobpoints for it?
I am very happy to be a part of such a great community, wish you the best of luck at the tables, off the tables, behind the tables, under the tables and in your life in general. Yours truly pochui, somewhere near the sea, Lithuania
Well here greetings from Belgium.... 10 pts plz
for those who are not good in geogrophy ..... Belgium is situqted in western europe, south of holland, west of germany and in the north of france.
Lithuuania is on thze east site of Belgium
Oh yeah and on 21/7 our king Albert is retiring and his son Filip will become king
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hello belgium ten pts for you n meny more to come lol Belgium (Listeni/ˈbɛldʒəm/ BEL-jəm), officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal monarchy in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters as well as those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.[nb 1] Belgium covers an area of 30,528 square kilometres (11,787 sq mi), and it has a population of about 11 million people.
Straddling the cultural boundary between Germanic and Latin Europe, Belgium is home to two main linguistic groups, the Dutch-speakers (about 60%), mostly Flemish, and the French-speakers (about 40%), mostly Walloons, plus a small group of German-speakers. Belgium's two largest regions are the Dutch-speaking region of Flanders in the north and the French-speaking southern region of Wallonia. The Brussels-Capital Region, officially bilingual, is a mostly French-speaking enclave within the Flemish Region.[6] A German-speaking Community exists in eastern Wallonia.[7] Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political conflicts are reflected in the political history and a complex system of government.[8][9]
Historically, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg were known as the Low Countries, which used to cover a somewhat larger area than the current Benelux group of states. The region was called Belgica in Latin because of the Roman province Gallia Belgica which covered more or less the same area. From the end of the Middle Ages until the 17th century, it was a prosperous centre of commerce and culture. From the 16th century until the Belgian Revolution in 1830, when Belgium seceded from the Netherlands, many battles between European powers were fought in the area of Belgium, causing it to be dubbed the "Battlefield of Europe,"[10] a reputation strengthened by both World Wars.
Upon its independence, Belgium participated in the Industrial Revolution[11][12] and, during the course of the 20th century, possessed a number of colonies in Africa.[13] The second half of the 20th century was marked by the rise of contrasts between the Flemish and the Francophones fuelled by differences of language and the unequal economic development of Flanders and Wallonia. This continuing antagonism has caused far-reaching reforms, changing the formerly unitary Belgian state into a federal state, and several governmental crises, the most recent, from 2007 to 2011, being the longest.
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When there is no-one to blame, blame it on Canada!
Canada i/ˈkænədə/ is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean. Canada is the world's second-largest country by total area, and its common border with the United States is the world's longest land border shared by the same two countries. The land that is now Canada has been inhabited for millennia by various Aboriginal peoples. Beginning in the late 15th century, British and French colonial expeditions explored, and later settled, the region's Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America to the United Kingdom in 1763 after the French and Indian War, which was essentially the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces and territories and a process of increasing autonomy, culminating in the Canada Act 1982.
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yea...even i m not an expert on geography i think lots of people know much more about west europe more the east even if the countries from east are much bigger.....i m wandering where Russia is ,can t find it ,can i get some tips?????????????????????
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Posted by demodawggy:
Posted by rafiko1: blame it on Canada!
It seems somebody has been getting bad ideas from South Park.... lol....
About Belgium,..... Would you guys kindly send someone over to take Jack Van Impe back PLEASE...!!!
Don't make me ask you again....!!!
Haha exactly. If South Park are saying something, then u have to agree. Jack can stay there, there is no place for him on Belgian cable... (had no idea who he was;, again thank you internet and wikipedia).
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Many poker writers have written that poker is a metaphor for life. In fact, it's an apt metaphor, for it contains many of the same elements that occur in life. Consider, for a moment: We are occasionally aggressive, taking the initiative, at other times, we are more prudent and withdraw. We do some rational things, and some that are not so rational. Every day is a new struggle--one that starts up all over; our fortunes go up and down, we find ourselves involved in complex, even tense situations with both good friends and adversaries; and at the end of it all, we get up and say, "Gee, where did all the time go?"
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great thread
in case you didn't know, here are some facts about Lithuania: Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos Respublika) is a country in Northern Europe, the largest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, to the east of Sweden and Denmark. It borders Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and Kaliningrad Oblast (a Russian exclave) to the southwest. Lithuania has an estimated population of 3 million as of 2012, and its capital and largest city is Vilnius. The Lithuanians are a Baltic people, and the official language, Lithuanian, is one of only two living languages (together with Latvian) in the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family. (Source: Wikipedia)
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Friend to put things simply anyone who follows any hierarchal belief system or political/social and economic doctrine..is complicit in the game and reality we face...which sadly is the majority of human beings. Having worked around the world I have noticed the biggest reason why people blindly following all these corrupt and imbalnce ideologies..is that secretly they all hope oneday they or their children might become the top dogs in the pack..so don't want to change the system...that might just simple make everyone equally and the same.
Ego, selfishness and greed are a major part of the human condition..and therefore reality.
leaders, rulers banking and businesses all provide (unequal jobs and products)and also corruptly pollute the planet and people beneath them ...usually for unequal personal power and profit...which most humans are programmed to admire, revere and submit too...after all the top dogs
Who really makes the rules and reg's and enforces or changes them. Who makes and takes the decisions to make and create the wars of artificial division.These are the most revealing of questions of all regarding the realities and consiquences of fake criminal hierarchal control.
..and sadly the greedy sheep continue to bah and graze ,.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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