Hobbies The casual card player's philosophy is "you pays your money, and you takes your choice." The rabid card player, on the other hand, makes any card game he plays a series of involved problems in mathematics and a difficult task for any but the most highly developed memory. He knows percentages, and he plays percentages.

His percentages change with specific situations. Suppose he is playing poker, and he gets a pair of kings in the five cards dealt to him. He knows mathematically what the chances are that he has the best hand and what the chances are that there are one or more hands better than his. As the game progresses, the chances with relation to every other hand change with the number of cards each play draws.

This player's use of percentages does not guarantee that he will win any one hand. But they are sound percentages and if he sticks to them faithfully and ignores hunches, they will eventually win for him.

So, here you have the story of playing cards as a hobby or a casual pastime. You can make a light game of it, or you can make it a tense, time-consuming occupation. It's up to you.




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November 20, 2008