Fighting Breast Cancer

Michael recently bought a really nice poker set and he has decided to school my mother and me with the intricate strategies of Texas Hold ‘Em Poker. 

“Poker is a game of skill,”  Michael told us.  “It’s all about how well you can read your opponents and how likely it is that they have a hand that’s better than yours.”

We sat out on the patio this evening and dealt the cards around.  We played a few practice rounds with the cards face up.  Soon, we were ready to play for money.

The first couple of hands, I won.  Then my mom found her own strategy:  Play every hand and raise.  Even if you are bluffing.  She ended up bluffing Michael out of most of his money.

With each hand that he lost, Michael became more and more frustrated.  “You weren’t supposed to win that hand!  What do you have, a pair of 2’s?  I had a pair of 10’s!  You were raising like you had a pair of Queens!”

The last hand of the game:  The first two cards are dealt and the bidding war begins.  Michael ends up going All In.  He has a King of spades and a Queen of hearts.  My mother is holding pocket Aces.  The flop is the Ace of diamonds, 2 of clubs and 5 of spades.  It’s all over, my mother has cleaned out our poker tutor in less than twelve hands.

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