Life Lessons at the Poker Table

Steve Russell
Nov 7 · 8 min read
A memorable game on Pixabay

An indispensable lesson is how to eat after you lose.

There is a never ending debate over whether poker is a game of luck or a game of skill. Of course, it’s both.

In all the time I played Texas hold ’em poker, I can only remember once drawing four of a kind. My hole cards were a pair of deuces. That was nothing to write home about until the flop…

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Steve Russell is enrolled Cherokee, a 9th grade dropout, retired judge, associate professor emeritus of criminal justice, and (so far) a cancer survivor.

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