Poker Meets Ballet

by , Jan 29, 2010 | 3:30 pm

We love high culture here at Pokerati, but I gotta say, I never thought I’d spend 12 minutes of 2010 listening to/watching ballet. Though my tastes lean more towards watching heavy metal videos with semi-pokery themes on Youtube, I couldn’t help but click this one when I saw a ballet about the difficulties of playing pocket Jacks.

I’m no dance critic, but I think they capture the inherent conundrums with the hand pretty well:

ALT HED: Jacks Are Gay

OK, my apologies for making you watch that. Here’s a better dance about potentially troublesome pocket Kings:



One Comment to “Poker Meets Ballet”


  1. Kevin Mathers
    says:

    London’s Royal Opera House is going to be doing an opera based on “The Gambler”, and is using an old school picture of Doyle Brunson:

    http://www.roh.org.uk/whatson/production.aspx?pid=10626