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I was playing Texas Hold ‘Em from seat #8. The table was full. At the opposite end of the table in seat #3 was a slender, attractive blonde lady. Next to her in seat #2 was a robust good looking middle-aged man and to his right in seat #1 was a crusty looking, sort of timid old black man with a cane that peered carefully at his cards before he reacted or bet. On her left side in seat #4 was a gray bearded fellow that played rather flamboyantly.

“Did you know” she asked, “that Bill Clinton was from Arkansas?”

Gray beard responded. “Yep. And, so am I.”

“Really. That’s where I’m from.” She sort of gushed. “Did you know they used to have signs up when you came into the state that proclaimed it to be ‘The Birthplace of Bill Clinton’ and that they took the signs down when he got into that mess?”

The old black man responded. “I read that. I’m from Arkansas, too, and that really made me unhappy. We elected him, warts and all, and even if he got into trouble, he is still ours.”

“I’m beginning to feel outnumbered” said the robust guy. “All these Arkansas people around me.”

The blonde sort of ignored him. “Well,” she said. “I’m glad Romney’s running. He’s going to win in a landslide and then maybe the country can get back on track. Can I get another drink?”

“What are you drinking?” the gray beard asked.

She smiled. “It’s called a ‘Leg Spreader’.”

There was a silence at the table. Finally, the robust player reacted. “What’s it got in it?” he asked.

“I don’t know. It just tastes good.”

“You ought to have a couple more of them, then,” he told her. “Do they work?”

“Ha! Ha! Ha!,” she said and turned to the gray beard. “Where bout’s in Arkansas you from?”

“A little town just west of Little Rock. What makes you think Romney’s going to win so easy?”

“He’s the best man. He’s got all that money and he’s spendin’ it like crazy. That’ll get him elected. But, mainly, he’s the best man.”

The game went on for a few minutes. The cocktail waitress brought some drinks. The blonde had something pink to drink. “What do you do over there?” she asked gray beard.

“Nothing much anymore,” he answered. “Sometimes I help out the sheriff if he gets a lot of notices and stuff to serve.”

“Are you a deputy?” she asked.

“Not really,” he responded. “Just help out sometimes.”

“Do you carry a gun, and everything?”

“Oh, yeah. I’ve got a weapons permit and can carry it most everywhere.”

Robust man spoke up. “In Nebraska, you couldn’t wear it into a courthouse or any other government buildings.”

“Same way in Arkansas,” he said. He pulled out his wallet and dug through it. “Here’s the permit to own it and here’s the one to carry it concealed.”

The dealer spoke up. “You can’t carry one into the casinos here, either.”

“Right,” said graybeard.

The blonde stirred her drink and then sipped at it. “Somebody ought to use one on some of these politicians.”

“That’d be pretty harsh,” said the robust man.

The old black man stirred. He looked at his cards and then looked at the middle of the table. “I gave Obama $40,000,” he said.

Silence again descended on the table. Suddenly the blonde blurted out “YOU DID WHAT?”

He repeated himself. “I gave Obama $40,000”.

“What in the world did you do that for? Do you mean you just gave him that much money? Why would a person do that?”

“I figured he could use it in the campaign,” said the old man.

The blonde was seething by this time. “You sure you don’t have that gun on you?” she asked gray beard. She drained her drink. She didn’t have a lot of chips left but she grabbed up what she had and stomped off.

“That’s too bad,” said the robust man. “I kind of liked sittin’ next to her.”

A professional poker card dealer distributes the cards to the poker players and manages the poker table. Each and every casino with a poker room must have a staff of poker dealers. Dealers usually are tipped. Their tips are more substantial if they are quick and efficient at dealing hands. The dealers who are quicker are usually chosen by the casino to deal in the higher limit games.

Casinos usually require anybody wanting to be a poker dealer to take a 4-6 week training course at a dealing school if they have no prior experience. Some drawbacks of being a poker dealer include having to deal with some players that are difficult or abusive, working long hours and sitting for long periods of time.

Poker dealers may also be hired by major poker tournaments. The coordinators usually hire dealers for the duration of the tournament, which can last anywhere from a few days to a few weeks. Dealers usually have to cover their own travel expenses. Room and board may or may not be provided for the dealers.

In order to be a dealer, you must be proficient at shuffling the deck and dealing the cards. If the game calls for it, the dealer must also turn up the community cards in the center of the table.

There is a particular method to shuffling the cards that the poker dealer must follow. This method is defined by the casino itself.A professional poker dealer will always keep both halves of the cards very low to the table. First, the dealer must spread out the cards on the table and “scramble them. This is called washing the cards. Then the dealer must collect all the cards and square them into a deck. After that, the poker dealer will follow a particular shuffling sequence such as “riffle, riffle, box, riffle”. Finally, a cut card is placed on the table and the deck is cut into the card. This “cut” card is held on the bottom of the deck throughout the entire game to keep the bottom card from being seen.

There are two different methods to dealing the poker cards. They are American style and European style. American style is when the deck is held in one hand, and the corner of the top card is pinched between the thumb and forefinger of the other hand. Then the dealer throws the card to the player. The dealer has to be careful to throw it low to the table and in the right direction so the players cannot see the card.

In European style dealing, the poker dealer touches the top of each card being delt. Then he pushes the card off of the deck and onto the table in front of him. After this, he propels the card to the player. Usually he adds some spin to the care to insure stability.

After dealing the poker cards to the players, the top card of the deck is “burned” before the community cards are laid out. Burning of a card is just discarding it. This is because it is possible that a player has seen this card. This ensures that there is no cheating. When burning the deck must be held low and the card that is to be burned must always stay level with the table. Casinos always keep an eye on the dealers, making sure that the poker dealers d not flash the card to the players, therefore exposing the card. During a poker game that includes a flop, the flop is comprised of the community cards. The community cards are always turned up simultaniously. Never are they turned up one at a time.

Dealers are in control of all the action in a game. This may include, but is not limited to, telling the players to act, verbally announcing the actions of a player to the rest of the table and correcting any and all players who act out of turn.

The dealer also manages the pot. The poker dealer must verify all bets and raises placed by the players. The dealer must also collect all folded poker hands. The poker dealer must also read the players hands during a showdown to determine the winner. In poker games where there is a “rake”, the dealer must keep track of how much is in the pot and he must also subtract the appropriate ammount for the house.

As you can see, a poker dealer does not just deal the cards. There is so much more to being a poker dealer than what it appears. With poker dealers having to do so much, they deserve all the respect they can get.

Playing poker with Barack Obama sounds like a complete joy! Imagine playing poker with someone who shows all their cards the moment after they are dealt. And, it gets better – Barack Obama can’t (or doesn’t know how to) bluff his opponents. Rake in the chips and pay off the house when playing poker with Barack Obama.

Of course, Barack Obama may actually be able to play poker. It is highly possible he just doesn’t know how to apply his poker skills to being president. More specifically, Barack Obama doesn’t know how to apply his poker skills to the situation in Libya.

Barack Obama goes on television and announces that America will no longer be participating in the daily bombings of Libya. By the next morning, it was all over the news that Gaddifi had increased his attacks on his own people. Barack Obama spread his cards face up at the table and said, “This is what I have.”

Barack Obama promises, in another television appearance, that there will not be “boots on the ground.” No matter what, no American ground troops will be in Libya. He was much more emphatic about it this time. What happened? Gaddifi went to work and the attacks on the Libyan people once again increased. If Barack Obama only knew the power of the bluff!

Why on God’s green planet would Barack Obama announce to Gaddifi (and the rest of the world) that America would no longer be participating? Does he not understand that Gaddifi knows what America’s military and it’s bombs are capable of doing? To tell Gaddifi “no more American involvement on daily basis” is inviting him to wreak more havoc on Libya. Gaddifi accepted that invitation and did just that.

Barack Obama had said repeatedly there would be no ground troops in Libya. Why? America has the best trained and equipped military in the world. American Special Forces are capable of extraordinary things when dropped into a combat area. Even if there would never be boots on the ground, you should never tell the opposing side that. It is called a bluff. Gaddifi doesn’t want American forces on the ground in Libya because he knows what they are capable of doing.

“Play the player, not the cards,” is an old rule in poker. It seems that Barack Obama can’t play either one when it comes to Libya. Gaddifi was contained and not a threat to America, yet Barack Obama had to protect the interests of China and Europe. He made his little statement by sending our bombers to play with Gaddifi for a few days – his fingers crossed that this would keep China happy and willing to loan America money.

Gaddifi must be able to poker. Well, against Obama at least. Gaddifi played the player and not the cards. He slowed his attacks on his own country, wondering what was in Obama’s hand. Once Obama put those cards on the table, Gaddifi pounced.

Should Barack Obama ever take Michelle on a vacation to a casino, by all means, sit down at a poker table with him. It should prove to be quite for profitable for his poker opponents. If there is any doubt, ask Gaddifi – he’s the one with all the chips and laughing.