I’ve heard that a lot of skill in poker is not when to draw or what to discard, it’s knowing how much to bet on a given hand. There isn’t that much you can do to improve any given hand, but folding earlier and betting more on good hands are within your control.
In Texas Hold ’Em, the most popular form of poker, there is no drawing or discarding, just betting and folding.
This seems like strong evidence that those parts are where the skill lies — somebody came up with a version that removed the other parts, and everyone switched to it.
Not sure how that affects the metaphor. For me I think it weakened the punch, since I had to stop and remember that there exist forms of poker with drawing and discarding.
I’ve heard that a lot of skill in poker is not when to draw or what to discard, it’s knowing how much to bet on a given hand. There isn’t that much you can do to improve any given hand, but folding earlier and betting more on good hands are within your control.
feels like a metaphor for something.
In Texas Hold ’Em, the most popular form of poker, there is no drawing or discarding, just betting and folding.
This seems like strong evidence that those parts are where the skill lies — somebody came up with a version that removed the other parts, and everyone switched to it.
Not sure how that affects the metaphor. For me I think it weakened the punch, since I had to stop and remember that there exist forms of poker with drawing and discarding.