Re: [ba-poker] RE: poker in German-speaking countries (was: learning by doing)

["David S. Heller" <david(deleted the rest)>]

There was an episode of Gunsmoke, too.  I can't remember the details, since
it's been like 35 years since I saw it, but Miss Kitty was playing poker
with the bad guy and somehow defeated him, and the phrase "table stakes" was
used, too.  I think it kept the bad guy from raising?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Latto" <andy.latto(deleted the rest)>
To: <rogerc22(deleted the rest)>
Cc: <ba-poker(deleted the rest)>
Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 8:58 PM
Subject: Re: [ba-poker] RE: poker in German-speaking countries (was:
learning by doing)


>
>    If I remember my tales from H.O. Yardley correctly, if somebody else
bet the
>    farm you were given a day to raise enough money to meet it.
>
> I didn't see anything like that in Yardley. In fact, my memory of
> Yardley is that there is no evidence that the games are not played
> table stakes. All the stories in the book that involve winning
> something other than the money on the table involve side
> bets voluntarily agreed to by both parties.
>
> Ciaffone wrote at some point that he has researched this question
> extensively, and that he has never found a reliable account of
> a no-limit game not played for some form of table stakes.
> The "24 hours to raise the money" rule comes from the movie
> Big Hand for a Little Lady", and the whole idea of forcing someone
> to fold by betting more than their net worth comes from the movies,
> not from actual poker games.
>
> Andy Latto
> andy.latto(deleted the rest)
>
>