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Poker Poker and Niort success: Scarecrow and Mrs. King

Written by Administrator Monday, 16 March 2009 00:00

Conceived and organized by six students from the IUT, the festival of poker was full this weekend in Niort, with nearly two hundred players at the tables.

A wonderful antidote to the crisis, the poker? This is perhaps one of the keys of the phenomenal success enjoyed today most American card games. But make no mistake, if the investment is risky and risk-taking maximum - two common practices at the root of so many disappointments in our market economy - are essential in poker, the game exciting that nearly two hundred male and female players practiced Saturday and Sunday at Niort in Pre-Leroy, has, in turn, ruined person. And makes people happy!

"No limit"

In this poker there, no bundles of dollars on the table. Just two small stacks of colorful a notional value of € 30 (or dollars, depending on the imagination of each). Here, no clouds of cigar smoke in the halo of pale light, or flanges of bourbon. Just a few bottles of Coke and mineral water and cups of peanuts. No colt in the back of the jacket, either. And not even a jacket at all for that matter! Instead, T-shirts and jeans. Eighteen years minimum required to sit down to eat at ... "no limit! "The player's age, will tell you Gueffier Mathieu, president of Four aces club Niort. The atmosphere is studious, but tension-free film. No menacing look towards the bluffer who made off the carpet with a pair of two lamentable.
No, in this little world there, when we applauded, not to honor the lucky, the master of his nerves, but to salute the "loser" who has bitten the dust. Those who, one after the other, having squandered their initial capital, are forced to leave the table. For them, the tournament ends. Players, they become spectators. Saturday evening, when honest men slept for a long time, the last to sit, loaded and was called Julien Bigot.
Who are they these unrepentant bettors, speculators in search of emotion captured by the poker? Man in the World, slides Mathieu Gueffier himself territorial agent at the rink. Municipal police officer, engineer, worker, student ... seems to play poker like no social barriers. In this time of cleavage, not surprising that such a game takes all.