my personal essay
Texas
Holdem
My daily favorite hobby is Texas Holdem it helps me relax. Every other day I play poker weather it’s with friends and family or on my phone for couple of hours. I enjoy it mostly because it clears my mind of other things and plus it makes me think about the game rather than other things that are going on. I’ve been playing poker since I was about 6 years old I sucked when I first started playing but I guess everyone else does to when they first start to play. For example I used to bet crazy amounts with just face cards now I know that is a dumb move and I allow others to bet than I will either call or raise them.
This year for my birthday I played poker I enjoyed it not just because I was playing cards but it also brought my family closer together and we made jokes back and further bluffed each other and had a great time. The last couple of times we have played I have taken at least 2nd out of 12 but on my birthday I finished 4th I had pocket Qs and my dad had 10 2 of hearts he raised a lot on the flop which is the 1st 3 cards to show up so I decided to re raise him and he put me all in so I called. The last card which is known as the river gave him a flush which beat my 3 of a kind of Queens.
People who tell you Texas Holdem is mostly luck are wrong poker is 90% skill and 10% luck. It is a game that makes you think mentally and try to out think your opponents yes there is some bluffing involved but that could fit under the skill category as well as luck because you can trick the other person into thinking you have the better hand when you’re the 1 who doesn’t you’re the 1 who makes that happen not the cards. When I first started playing poker on my phone I was in 6th grade and I still have the same poker app I play. When I first started to play I started out with 10 thousand dollars in chips right now I have 3.6 Billion dollars in poker chips. The biggest hint I have for you to know what their cards are is by their tell what I mean by that is the expression on their face or them fidgeting with something is a tell and sometimes your wrong but other times your right. Online you have to pay attention to how they bet so it takes longer.
I used to enjoy playing with my dad’s friends 1 time 1 of his friends didn’t believe I was good for my age I was about 8 around the time and I was still playing when it was past my bed time so one of his friends cheated and took a card from the deck and I called him on it the funny part is I was the 1st person to realize he cheats often not just that one time so it made me proud of myself that I was the one out of all them that knew it. I still enjoy playing with my family every now and then but at times it last way to long.
My daily favorite hobby is Texas Holdem it helps me relax. Every other day I play poker weather it’s with friends and family or on my phone for couple of hours. I enjoy it mostly because it clears my mind of other things and plus it makes me think about the game rather than other things that are going on. I’ve been playing poker since I was about 6 years old I sucked when I first started playing but I guess everyone else does to when they first start to play. For example I used to bet crazy amounts with just face cards now I know that is a dumb move and I allow others to bet than I will either call or raise them.
This year for my birthday I played poker I enjoyed it not just because I was playing cards but it also brought my family closer together and we made jokes back and further bluffed each other and had a great time. The last couple of times we have played I have taken at least 2nd out of 12 but on my birthday I finished 4th I had pocket Qs and my dad had 10 2 of hearts he raised a lot on the flop which is the 1st 3 cards to show up so I decided to re raise him and he put me all in so I called. The last card which is known as the river gave him a flush which beat my 3 of a kind of Queens.
People who tell you Texas Holdem is mostly luck are wrong poker is 90% skill and 10% luck. It is a game that makes you think mentally and try to out think your opponents yes there is some bluffing involved but that could fit under the skill category as well as luck because you can trick the other person into thinking you have the better hand when you’re the 1 who doesn’t you’re the 1 who makes that happen not the cards. When I first started playing poker on my phone I was in 6th grade and I still have the same poker app I play. When I first started to play I started out with 10 thousand dollars in chips right now I have 3.6 Billion dollars in poker chips. The biggest hint I have for you to know what their cards are is by their tell what I mean by that is the expression on their face or them fidgeting with something is a tell and sometimes your wrong but other times your right. Online you have to pay attention to how they bet so it takes longer.
I used to enjoy playing with my dad’s friends 1 time 1 of his friends didn’t believe I was good for my age I was about 8 around the time and I was still playing when it was past my bed time so one of his friends cheated and took a card from the deck and I called him on it the funny part is I was the 1st person to realize he cheats often not just that one time so it made me proud of myself that I was the one out of all them that knew it. I still enjoy playing with my family every now and then but at times it last way to long.