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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Extended Reading
  • Kristoffer 2022-03-28 09:01:02

    Going around in circles, what you should lose will never exist, the talent you should face is already doomed for you, no matter how many times, there will be no second choice because at that time you have made the most correct choice

  • Torey 2021-11-16 08:01:27

    "For us this is reality, and the movie is always changing," Damon said. "That's why they stopped filming "Rounders", and they stopped filming "Good Will Hunting" (Mind Catcher). They didn't do it, but they couldn't make it. It is the international box office that replaced the DVD market. Today's movies The market is fast food, and the films that producers need can cross languages ​​and cultures, and everyone can understand and accept them. This orientation means talking less, making things simpler, and everyone knows who a good person is , Who is the bad guy. Only then will someone pay the bill. Filming has a high cost, so the box office is very important. The attendance rate of "King of Gambling" may not meet expectations. As far as the film industry is concerned, people who can understand Not much."

Rounders quotes

  • Worm: [while taking poker chips from Mike at the poker room inside The Mirage casino] let's get started, shall we?

    Taj Dealer: [to worm] I'm sorry sir you can't take chips from another player at the table

    Card Player: [referring to the other rounders at the table, before turning to the player sitting to his right] you know what we all know each other here, we're like friends, so if nobody complains, do you have a problem?

    Card Player: it's alright

    Worm: there's no problem

    Taj Dealer: sir, you have to buy them from me

  • Mike McDermott: [while leaving Grama's brothel after failing to convince him to give them more time to pay back worm's debt to him and Teddy KGB] what the hell are you doing?

    Lester 'Worm' Murphy: [explaining why he mouthed off which resulted in failing to convince him to give them more time to pay back his debt to him and Teddy KGB] I'm not going to get down on my knees for that jerk off

    Mike McDermott: all I said was to keep your mouth shut for like five seconds.

    Lester 'Worm' Murphy: [realizing his pride got the better of him] I'm sorry

    Mike McDermott: God damn it

    Lester 'Worm' Murphy: that's it, I mean I'm really "sunk" now

    Lester 'Worm' Murphy: [before they begin to list the poker games they can play and win enough money to pay back worm's debt to Grama and Teddy KGB] where do you want to start?

    Mike McDermott: [referring to the amount of the poker blinds in the poker game] look there's the 30/60 at The Chesterfield, there's the 4am in Woodside, There's the Greeks.

    Lester 'Worm' Murphy: alright there's union game in Jersey I know a guy's cousin can get us in

    Mike McDermott: that's four

    Lester 'Worm' Murphy: there's the cigar shop in Brooklyn is an easy clean

    Mike McDermott: there's a golf pro game in Riverdale

    Lester 'Worm' Murphy: that's a good one

    Lester 'Worm' Murphy: yeah there's a lot of money in that one

    Mike McDermott: that's six

    Lester 'Worm' Murphy: you sure you're up for this?

    Mike McDermott: [feeling confident] I'm fuckin up for this