The Poker

Peritheral person
Sep 4, 2018 · 3 min read

Visualize yourself playing a game — poker.

Though, there is a plot twist in the situation.

A sudden, you are not playing the game anymore.

You are inside it.

You have to put yourself on the line — to choose, are you a card or a coin in the game.

Cards are the most important element of the game. I would like to call them the “cold ones”. Every hand in poker is played with cards. Therefore, being the good “cold one”, like the queen, king or trump helps not only to win a hand of the game but also leads to the triumph.

The coin is not a significant concern for poker. It is usually beneficial in specific situations during the game. The case is termed as the “coin flip”. If players have approximately 50/50 possibility to win a hand, they are commonly using the old-fashion “heads or tails” to decide which player wins the hand. It brings excitement to a poker game, adrenaline. It has a small symbolic meaning — flipped coin is the risk which converts to the easier victory, or loss.

Choosing to be a card is getting towards calculated victory.

Choosing to be a coin — getting towards instability, unpredictability during the game.

Of course, it can be mentioned that, for instance, a coin also is an emotion (e.g. rush) in the game. Yet, the feeling of wind, touching the coin, comes only then someone throws it. Therefore, it is most likely unnecessary toy to be used.

In other words, the cards controls the poker’s ending along with a coin which is purely a tool to compose the game as the endangered one.

Foolish excitement or dull victory? What would you choose?

Right now, at once, imagine that a card is the way to achieve victory, but a coin is a winning or losing prize.

The choice is different: you are being used or being prized.

The card is the tool to gain something. Most of the times in poker it is money, in other words, coins. Better the card, the higher possibility to win the prize.

However, in this case, coins are not actually in the game. They are outside of it. Still connected to the game, but does not influence the game.

Strictly speaking, it is the result — win or loss.

The question is: does it really matters what you choose to be? Furthermore, no matter what, everything controls one thing — rules. And in one way or another you gain or lose something which only glows from outside. After all, money is still a piece of paper as a coin is still a piece of metal.

The true tragedy it is only a poker. Façade, in which you sooner or later feel stuck without nothing inside. At the end, the poker has only two things: the thrill and the rules.

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