Texas Holdem Poker

No but I play a mean game of Take the Brain which is a children's game of chess.
 
I've played before a few years back, but never really got the hang of it. I prefer 3 card brag!

I do like a game of Bridge though.
 
I’ve played but I’ve never realy been into gambling I try to bluff go all in wae a pair of 2s and get bust within three hands
 
Not in tournaments but I play occasionally against friends and watch quite a bit on You Tube.

Bridge is the card game I've played (probably too much!) in many tournaments both National and International.
 
I like Texas Hold 'em :)

Used to play Bridge when at school (used to do the Duplicate Tournments and was at one time the 3 counties (Berks, Bucks & Herts) Champion - but a long long time ago)

I enjoy Canasta and Cribbage as well when I have the chance to play :)
 
I realise this post has been dormant for 5 years... lol

But yes, I play. Not for a while, but I do play and have a set of poker chips in the van. All the way back in 2005 I won a single table "couples invitational" at the Ambassadors Club, with a trip to Vegas as the prize. I've also won 1 other live casino tournament and cashed in several others. But I've not played at all for the last couple of years. Must get back to it! 👍🏻
 
My late gran used to say cards are the work of the devel, we were not allowed to have them in the house. ;)
 
Why on earth would anyone want to gamble? it escapes me. Is it greed? For one to win it means that other gullible folks have to lose and it becomes an addiction chasing that elusive big win and attracting more and more debt. Be grateful for what you have and enjoy the fruits of your labours, sorry, sermon over !! But we did have a dear friend who succumbed and ended up taking an overdose
 
trevskoda said:
My late gran used to say cards are the work of the devel, we were not allowed to have them in the house. ;)
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I think my Granny in Wales was a bit like that - no card playing on a Sunday.

Your granny wouldn't have approved of us getting the cards out at my Dads Funeral do! He loved cards, and would have been looking down (or up?) and shouting out what card to play :) (Black Maria was the game of choice)
 
oppy said:
Why on earth would anyone want to gamble? it escapes me. Is it greed? For one to win it means that other gullible folks have to lose and it becomes an addiction chasing that elusive big win and attracting more and more debt. Be grateful for what you have and enjoy the fruits of your labours, sorry, sermon over !! But we did have a dear friend who succumbed and ended up taking an overdose
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I enjoy poker as a stimulating game of skill and luck. I play online for pennies and in fact I met my late wife at a virtual poker table in a game that cost nothing at all to play.

Some people don't like it and others do, just like everything else in life. 👍🏻
 
You need a good memory for a lot of card games.

That is why I play the Microsoft casual games every day in an effort to keep the little grey cells from dying off. I don't do too bad compared to others (who are probably even older than me or are halfwits). :giggle:
 
oppy said:
Why on earth would anyone want to gamble? it escapes me. Is it greed? For one to win it means that other gullible folks have to lose and it becomes an addiction chasing that elusive big win and attracting more and more debt. Be grateful for what you have and enjoy the fruits of your labours, sorry, sermon over !! But we did have a dear friend who succumbed and ended up taking an overdose
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Correct, a chap who used to have a van & jeep sold us paint goods as in rubbing paper etc, he came in one day in a state telling me he owed lots on a poker game, so to help him out i gave him a price of £1200 for the jeep which he left, i had it sold for £1900 within the hr and handed him his £1200 when he came back later in the day, he did not learn and soon lost the whole biz, fools game.
Yes i took a gamble on the sale but knew it was a dead sert. :unsure: 😂
 
My ex wife liked a game of poker and once won £500 or so, off work colleagues. They were working in Malaysia at the time and had all gone out on the lash and were back at their rented house when the whisky and cards came out. Thinking they could take my ex wife for a quid or two the blokes suggested a game. Whisky didn't really have an effect on my ex wife and she also liked a game of poker, so as they steadily got sloshed, she steadily kept winning!

The next morning she offered them the money back that she had won but to their credit they didn't take it.

When I flew out to see her it paid for flights and a hotel in Sydney for 5 nights...so a right result!

I have never been a gambler and these days myself and the wife (v2) enjoy a game of Scrabble to help keep our brains sharp.
 
I played snap when I was very young and have never played with cards ever since .

In fact I don’t remember playing any board games ever.
And as for computer games never ever played a single one.

I always had something to do and nothing has changed even now..
 
Monopoly for me as a child, tought me to buy property and how to make money, still works today but no board or dice required. ;)
 
trevskoda said:
Correct, a chap who used to have a van & jeep sold us paint goods as in rubbing paper etc, he came in one day in a state telling me he owed lots on a poker game, so to help him out i gave him a price of £1200 for the jeep which he left, i had it sold for £1900 within the hr and handed him his £1200 when he came back later in the day, he did not learn and soon lost the whole biz, fools game.
Yes i took a gamble on the sale but knew it was a dead sert. :unsure: 😂
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Cheers Trev. My thunks are that if you have money to waste, do something useful with it, support a charity, help towards a defib, or do many useful things with it but don't feed those whose only aim is to screw you for as much as they can and then pay a small percentage as a prize. Perhaps I'm just a grumpy old soul but I fail to understand why folks are so gullible, it's just human nature I suppose, but just think before you put a fiver on a donkey at the Grand National, that could feed a family for a day or maybe help a neighbour.
Sorry I'm at it again
 
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