How to play your cards...
Posted by MB Darrow on March 30th, 2007
Today I was thinking of someone I meet named Doc Kyger here on at SLBuzz. He is an SL gambler from Texas. In reading some of his prior blogs he revealed how to play the cards you are dealt.
Which caused me to think…when presented with a set of circumstances how do you play your cards. Here is the scenario, you know exactly what the other person holds, you know their cards…and of course, you see your own cards. So as the bets are made you know exactly how the cards are being played. You in a sense, know the final outcome just not how the hand unfolds in the course of the game.
You sense the bluff. You let the circumstances unfold. You observe the behavior. As soon it is time, the call is made. The cards are shown, the bet is paid or lost.
Is not allot of life the same. People playing a game, holding cards..sensing what the other has. Hoping the consequences end up in their favor. It is not easier to tell the truth, lay your cards down early and deal with the circumstances. Does life have to be poker? And is there any real winner at the end of a bluff? Is it just as bad to let the bluff continue? Hmmm…i don’t know, I guess I may IM Doc and see what he thinks…
March 30th, 2007 at 11:06 am
I, for one, and sick of the stranglehold that Poker has on the American psyche these days.
You know what? I need to count my pennies, buy an island, and create a gigantic three-D Candyland.
Then, at random, a voice shouts out different colors. And you walk to the next color square along the path.
And if Milton Bradley sues me, well, they’ll just look like a bunch of evil scum for suing a happy place made of candy.
(The other idea was called PIMPSLAP where every dresses like a whore, an evil giant Pimp-Bot is in the center of the island, and the “board” takes you around the Pimp-Bot for different prizes and such until you get within striking range. I’m confident that Milton Bradley won’t get their knickers in a twist over that.)
March 30th, 2007 at 11:22 am
I match your CandyLand and raise you a giant “Operation” sim where you extract vital organs from residents instead of rent…but wait…how much rent is an SL brain worth? :)
March 30th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
MB-
I was pondering doing the “blood libel” prank for April 1st, making the observation deck into a blender for providing a supply of blood to make the matzohs, but would I have time to pull it down in time for Passover?
March 30th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
it is kosher?