I have a friend who likes poker and wants to play all the time but will do nothing to try and improve their game. I'm talking about a person who limps every hand, never raise or reraise. Needless to say they never win any of our local tournaments. The theory of this player is " everyone gets 2 cards, I just need to have the best hand on the river ". I have offered them books and web site addresses to help them out but they never took me up on any of them. Then one night I had a good beer buzz going and told them that poker was like space travel. " What? " So then I had to come up with something to explain my new drunken theory. And this was what I told them.

Your goal in a poker tourney is to make final table and win. The goal of space travel is to get to another universe alive. Well if you just just use a ship to get through space it would take so long that you would die before you got there. Same in a tourney, if you just try to ride along you will blind out or just get busted. So instead of trying to manipulate a object through space you would have to manipulate space around the object. Get it? " No ". Nevermind then. Then they asked me if they could borrow those books (HOH) I was talking about. "No" " why " " cause I think I need to reread them."