Good Luck Today!

We all know poker is a game of skill, but only the moronic or blind refuse to admit that there is luck involved.  Today, Friday the 13^th, is the infrequent day on which luck is on everybody’s mind.  Too bad it is only bad luck. 

Why is this important?  Because seeing as this is the unluckiest day on the calendar, I highly advise you to stay away from the poker tables.  Virtual felt or the touchy-feely kind, nothing good can happen to your chip stack today.  Nothing.  You might as well smash a mirror over your head and deal the cards under a ladder. 

Should you decide to go against this advice, be prepared for one, some, or all of the following: 

• You will get all your money in to the pot after flopping bottom set against your opponent’s top set.
• You will raise pre-flop with A-K, get one caller, and get into a raising battle on an innocuous 2-5-9 flop.  Of course, your opponent will have a set of twos.
• Aces cracked by Kings, obviously.
• Runner-runner straights and flushes against you, obviously.
• Even better, pocket pair versus the same pocket pair all-in pre-flop, only to see your opponent four-flush. 

But then again, now that I think about it, if you suffer horrible luck, that means someone else is being handed gifts by the poker gods.  On the Friday the 13^th.  That’s impossible.  So what will happen?  Double bad-beats?  Two-outer versus two-outer?  But…somebody has to win the pot.  Will the poker room just collapse upon itself, eliminating it from existence?   

This is all just too freaky.  Don’t play poker on Friday the 13^th.  For your own health, don’t play.