Saturdays are quiet in the office of she who must be obeyed and her assistant decides to introduce her to the delights of on-line poker.
Unlike most of her compatriots, she who must be obeyed has had no exposure to gambling or the playing of cards, but she is given 50,000 chips by her friend and let loose on the gaming rooms of Facebook. Unfortunately, with such a large number of chips, the game assumes she is experienced and drops her into high stakes games, where her fuzzy knowledge of play ensures that she will be slaughtered.
She comes home excited, but somewhat distraught that she has managed to lose 40,000 chips in the course of Saturday afternoon. She shows me a scruffy bit of paper upon which are written “the rules”. Did I know that the cards go J-Q-K A in order of importance. I did. Did I know which suit is the highest rated in poker and how a single card of the high suit can beat a pair of another suit? I didn’t and it can’t.
There is clearly some confusion in her mind and we sit down and do two things. Firstly we find out how to get her some more chips without having to go through the tedious process of actually winning them. The company that makes the game will sell you some, and indeed they apparently made more than 40 million dollars last year doing exactly that. But their prices are ridiculous and for a measly $7 we purchase a million chips from another source cough ebay cough.
Then we go through the rules and clarify what they actually mean; and then she goes back into Facebook and chooses a low-playing room. Three hours later she is winning, such that she doesn’t really the need the windfall of chips that come her way on Sunday morning. But she has already devised a plan to sell them on to her friends such that we make a healthy profit on our 7$ investment.
Sunday is spent on the computer; winning at poker in one window, putting products for sale in eBay in another window, and flogging off chips to her friends in a third window. She may not be entirely clear on what beats a Full House without referring to her rules card, but she is certainly commercially minded. You can bet on that.
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2009-03-09| Jock sayswww.pokerstars.net let’s you play for free …. of course they’re hoping you’ll eventully get your credit card out and play for real …
Fortunately all gambling websites are banned in Saudi ….
I thought I was good until my 4 eights were beaten by a straight flush …
FIX or what ??