yeahwho
07-18-2008, 02:36 PM
OK, this is slanted a lot more towards McCain, but really it's an interesting insight into both Obama's and McCain's gambling habits.
McCain's vice just happens to be much more fascinating than Obama's.
If you pegged Obama as a methodical poker player, you'd be right. He had a weekly low stakes poker game with fellow senators and lobbyists. He tended to be conservative, and often win. Obama's risk-averse, methodical approach to five-card stud gives state senator Terry Link confidence in his potential governing style. "If he runs his presidency the way he plays poker, I'll sleep good at night," he says.
Time Story (http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1819898-1,00.html)
Then this story from the Daily Kos digs a little deeper, it is by one of their correspondents who also just happens to be a former Craps Dealer, JC Hallman.
I was surprised that Steven R's diary on McCain and craps was the first I'd heard of this, and the only reason I'm writing a new diary is because, as a former craps dealer, I may be able to offer fresh insight. (I wrote a piece about my career as a casino dealer for GQ in January, 2001.)
The Time article that got this going was kind of a fluff piece -- Barack as a poker player, McCain as a craps player, and what does that mean, exactly -- but it did get me thinking, and searching a little. There was a fair bit to uncover...
Daily Kos (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/6/123755/1624/818/547339)
McCain's vice just happens to be much more fascinating than Obama's.
If you pegged Obama as a methodical poker player, you'd be right. He had a weekly low stakes poker game with fellow senators and lobbyists. He tended to be conservative, and often win. Obama's risk-averse, methodical approach to five-card stud gives state senator Terry Link confidence in his potential governing style. "If he runs his presidency the way he plays poker, I'll sleep good at night," he says.
Time Story (http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1819898-1,00.html)
Then this story from the Daily Kos digs a little deeper, it is by one of their correspondents who also just happens to be a former Craps Dealer, JC Hallman.
I was surprised that Steven R's diary on McCain and craps was the first I'd heard of this, and the only reason I'm writing a new diary is because, as a former craps dealer, I may be able to offer fresh insight. (I wrote a piece about my career as a casino dealer for GQ in January, 2001.)
The Time article that got this going was kind of a fluff piece -- Barack as a poker player, McCain as a craps player, and what does that mean, exactly -- but it did get me thinking, and searching a little. There was a fair bit to uncover...
Daily Kos (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/6/123755/1624/818/547339)