Life Is But A Game
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Sometimes it's such a grind your knuckles get all beaten and bloodied up. Other times you get smacked in the face so hard by the deck you're bleeding from the mouth.
Either way, poker is a tough game, and one short tussle with it can leave you trying to catch your breath in the parking lot like an old man who just walked up 15 flights of stairs.
The upside of this great game is that sometimes it takes your breath away in a different way.
The shock of a bad beat or the exhilaration of winning a key pot at the right time can leave you breathless as well. The adrenaline rushes can make you feel like you were just in a fight.
Of course we fall in love with it. Even if the game sometimes plays the aging Lothario who doesn't understand when it's time to settle down and act its age.
But there's an innate drama in it that we are drawn to. It is as inevitable as the coming confrontation between two old friends with a beef who've had years to stew over it. It's going to boil over at some point. In this game, that drama reveals itself with every flop, turn and river, and there's no way to escape it.
Instead, you learn accept it, like we do one another. You just move on, hoping the love of the game is enough to make the poker gods smile upon us all every once in a while. And hope when they don't, we don't get beat up too badly.
But enough of these pompous pontifications and idiotic inferences. There's no need to read between the lines anymore. The needle has been readily stuck. The veil has been lifted and we're all in on the inside joke.
It's Level 2 of the latest WNYPC $10k Guaranteed and the clock says there are 30 entries already with registration and reentry available for seven more full levels.