One of my daily feed reads is the Instructables¹ feed. The site has how-tos which are illustrated and compiled by the site’s subscribers. I’ve seen geek projects, crafts, recipes there; you name it, they’ve got it.

Yesterday, they had a Texas Hold ‘Em how-to. The article explained the rules of the game, in a “how things work” fashion. I’m somewhat embarrassed to admit that in spite of reading Scott, Dave, and James, all of whom talk about poker with some regularity, that I was fundamentally clueless about the rules to the Texas Hold ‘Em poker variant. I had to guess about the precise meaning of “Flop”, for example. And I had no idea about such terms as “the river”, and “the turn”.

I’m ignorant no more. This article has instructed me, not with nuances nor strategies, but with the basic rules of the game. Here’s what scares me, though: As one who has all too often lived his life by the Anything worth doing is worth overdoing credo, I may become a jaded roue, up at all hours playing this game online. My little bride could very well find me in the darkened basement of tbbs world HQ, my pasty face illuminated only by the glow of the computer screen, with a heaped ashtray and a warm half consumed Shiners within reach, as I think “just one more game”.

Oh, the humanity!

-k-
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