{"id":37879,"date":"2014-07-30T15:07:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T14:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=37879"},"modified":"2021-06-29T08:24:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T08:24:21","slug":"fold-poker-hand-looking-like-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/fold-poker-hand-looking-like-star.html","title":{"rendered":"How to Fold Your Poker Hand Looking Like a Star"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two lepers were playing cards. One threw his hand in and the other one laughed his head off.<\/em><\/p>\n

What is it with men and the need to be cool?<\/p>\n

The hand sliding through the hair, the rugged stubble, the kink in the walk and the slight puckering of those lips.<\/p>\n

We can\u2019t even blame our genes because our Dads are completely uncool. I was cool when I was a kid. My son didn\u2019t believe me. I had to ring a friend to confirm. You should have seen his face. It looked like mine the day my Dad told me he could still shoot me in the eye despite having a vasectomy.<\/p>\n

Cool cooks a la carte; cool wears Calvin Klein\u2019s; cool screws all the best looking girls; cool gets the school jersey; cool smokes cigarettes; cool necks a pint in minutes; cool lost his virginity at 14; cool had a swagger; cool broke all the rules.<\/p>\n

Uncool kids did maths.<\/p>\n

Cool has even invaded our poker game<\/a>. It\u2019s become more important than merging your range. There used to be a time when people would deliberately look away from the flop because they didn\u2019t want to give off a tell; these days nobody is looking at the flop because they are too busy being cool.<\/p>\n

Take folding your hand as an example. The single most important lesson you could ever be taught in poker is to fold. But nobody ever told me that you had to fold\u2026in a cool way.<\/p>\n

The serious look. The squint in the eye. The flare of the nostril, the almost perfect lip restraint. The slip and slide of the cards. One beneath the other. The pick up\u2026and then a quick flick of the wrist and the cards fly into the sky like a helicopter. It ends with a slight shrug and an almost imperceptible shake of the head.<\/p>\n

So cool.<\/p>\n

I wonder if it\u2019s always been like that?<\/p>\n

I wonder if learning how to muck your hand like a star has always been an important concept in poker? I have never read Super System. I wonder if there is a chapter dedicated to getting the helicopter just right?<\/p>\n

I tried it once and nearly garrotted the dealer.<\/p>\n

I bet Elvis Presley was great at folding his hand. Let\u2019s be clear, I\u2019m talking Heartbreak Hotel<\/em> Elvis. I have no doubt the permanent residue of burger fat that would had stained the fingers of the Elvis that did things My Way<\/em> would have had terrible trouble trying the helicopter.<\/p>\n

Tony Montana is another guy who would have had guys wetting their pants every time he folded his cards. I can just picture him peering at his cards over a mountain of cocaine.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat you looking\u2019 at? You all a bunch of f***in\u2019 assholes. You know why? You don\u2019t have the guts to be what you wanna be? You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your f***in\u2019 fingers and say, \u201cThat\u2019s the bad guy\u2026but man can he fold a mean full house.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then there was David Bowie. The Thin White Duke. I mean what a cool poker name. And what do we get? Kid Poker! The Poker Brat! Texas Dolly! Give me The Thin White Duke any day.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoy could he play guitar?\u201d<\/p>\n

Boy could he fold a hand.<\/p>\n

I know he was a tad eccentric but I reckon old Jacko would have folded a mean hand. He would have tipped his hat, rubbed the thumbs of his satin white gloves, rose to his feet, and flicked them in the air whilst doing the moonwalk, holding his balls and screaming some noise that is an actual word in the dictionary of the Ashaninka tribe in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.<\/p>\n

Bruce Lee is another one who would have been awesome at folding cards. He would have flicked them in the air and nun chucked them. That\u2019s another man who made unpronounceable squeals into cool things to do with your bird on a first date.<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s John Travolta.<\/p>\n

The coolest cat in town.<\/p>\n

I reckon Travolta could fold his cards in such a way that men would get as hard as a stick of Blackpool rock. I\u2019m talking Vincent Vega. The man who makes an order at a fast food restaurant and the girl behind the counter faints. The dancer. The lover. The snazzy dresser. I would have loved to have seen Travolta flicking those cards into the air.<\/p>\n

And these days?<\/p>\n

Snoop Dogg would fold a mean card, but nobody would see it coming through the plumes of smoke. Ryan Gosling would fit perfectly into a modern game of poker. He doesn\u2019t smile. There\u2019s not a flicker of emotion, and he never speaks (well he didn\u2019t in the two hours of the movie Drive). Gosling could muck a card with the best of them.<\/p>\n

The one man I would love to see muck a card is Dan Bilzerian. Unfortunately, you are more likely to see the Loch Ness Monster than see Bilzerian play poker<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Did you know he had a staff of 20 people?<\/p>\n

I reckon the man is so cool he doesn\u2019t even muck his own cards. I reckon he hires porn stars to do it for him. That\u2019s why he throws them off the roof. It\u2019s his way of showing them how to create the perfect helicopter.<\/p>\n

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