Vilnius Poker In the book Vilnius Poker by Ricardas Gavelis‚ Vytautas Vargalys is an intelligent‚ unstable 53-year-old that works as a librarian. He is completely out of his mind and suffers from paranoia and other diseases. Vytautas is in love with a woman he works with named Lolita‚ who is a young woman in her twenty’s who works at the library. The setting of the novel takes place during the soviet times at Vilnius and the story is told through four narrators. Vytautas is a survivor of the
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Yao The Rules and Mechanics of Limit Hold’em It is expected that the reader of this book has some experience playing Limit Hold’em and is not a complete novice. For completeness‚ the rules of the game along with some poker terminology is included. Limit Texas Hold’em is a form of poker with community cards. The rankings of the hands are in order: Rank Royal Flush Straight Flush Four-of-a-kind Full House Flush Straight Three-of-a-kind Two pair One Pair High Card Example A♠-K♠-Q♠-J♠-T♠ K♣-Q♣-J♣-T♣-9♣
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Their Eyes Were Watching God taught me that no one should never depend on someone to make them happen or fill in love that they don’t have for themselves. Self-love is the best love and looking for it elsewhere than yourself will only lead to unhappiness. In the story‚ Janie‚ who is a dynamic character in the story lusted a husband to fulfill her needs‚ emotions‚ love and etc. Nanny‚ who raised Janie to become a young woman that lives off a man’s land and money‚ leads Janie living a miserable life
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Richard Wright’s critique and judgement on the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ written by Zora Neale Hurston‚ Wright uses a candid tone and a sophisticated style of writing to argue that Hurston fails to exemplify a theme that addresses the Negro life. Instead‚ he claims that her novel supports the “white audience whose chauvinistic tastes she knows how to satisfy.” How does Wright know that Hurston knows how to satisfy the white audience? From this‚ one can assume that Wright probably knows
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Steven Touitou I remember the first time having play poker ‚ I was maybe 10 years old and were looking at my older brother playing in the living room with their friends ‚ I already knew the rules that my father thought me few years ago but that was the first time I was introduces to Texas Hold’em a different variance that became the most popular game of poker. As soon as the group left the table ‚ I remember grabbing the deck of card dealt myself two cards‚ draw five cards on the board and
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Total Opposites In the short story "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte‚ the author uses characters in the story that have very similar characteristics‚ except for one‚ "Uncle Billy." John Oakhurst is a big time gambler in Poker Flat. He took large sums of money from many people in town. The residents of Poker Flat were very upset with him always winning bets and all of their money. Out of all the people that are banned from Poker Flat‚ Oakhurst possesses the best qualities out of the group
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Lethargy Many pro poker players use the game as a means to escape from responsibility. They don’t want to have to wake up on time‚ show up to work on time‚ and take orders from superiors. They are often victims of too much freedom. Excessive freedom causes many of them to lose sense of purpose. This is when things start to unravel for them. They start hitting the snooze button on the alarm a few too many times. Running late‚ they skip basic hygiene practices like taking a shower and brushing their
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Speaking of regionalistic qualities‚ The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and The Outcasts of Poker Flat are very much alike when it comes to their characters. The dialect used in both stories indicates that the setting must be somewhere in the “Wild West”. For example‚ in Twain’s story‚ Simon Wheeler is telling the narrator tall tales about some fellow named Jim Smiley and his tone tells you exactly the type of man he is: somewhat unintelligent compared to the narrator. The sentence structure
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In Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ Zora Neale Hurston incorporates three marriages into Janies life story. The actual process of marriage and the presence of a special union thereafter are not spoken of with the grandeur they should be associated with‚ usually only being referred to for a mere one or two sentences at a time in the book. So they were married there before sundown‚ just like Joe had said (Hurston 33). The only references alluding to a marriage in Hurstons book are subtle and do not call
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journey to further the characters change. Bret Harte is successful in using a physical journey to alter the characters personality in The Outcasts of Poker Flat. Oakhurst‚ Uncle Billy‚ Mother Shipton‚ and the Dutchess all had one thing in common‚ they were banished from Poker Flat due to their actions. In Bret Harte’s short story The Outcasts of Poker Flat the party of misfits prove that even if people have corrupt actions‚ the can still be a good person. The characters all reveal their true personalities
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