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<blockquote data-quote="Delta" data-source="post: 4508505" data-attributes="member: 40269">I'm going to disagree with this analogy. Honest question: Do you actually play poker? I can't tell one way or the other.&nbsp;(1) Luck is inherently a part of poker. There's a phrase called &quot;bad beat&quot; for when a poker player does everything correct, was ahead in the hand, and still gets beaten anyway. It's specifically a mark of a good poker player that they can emotionally take a &quot;bad beat&quot; and deal with it. (IMO it's actually the most interesting thing about the game!)&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_beat" target="_blank">Bad beat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a>&nbsp;(2) It seems like the best analogy is whole poker match = character life; one hand = one encounter; folding = running away; busting out of chips = death. Then a &quot;fold now card&quot; would be = &quot;you must run away from encounter&quot;, which I suppose is not that different from a fear effect. It would take a &quot;you instantly lose all your chips&quot; card = instant death.&nbsp;(3) Of course, the equivalent to automatically losing your hand is just when an opposing player gets an unbeatable hand and you don't know about it. Of course, that's called &quot;drawing dead&quot; and it definitely happens; it's one of the recognized categories of &quot;bad beats&quot;, having a strong hand clobbered by an even stronger hand (see link). And again, professional players play with that risk all the time, and some of us think it's the most interesting mental challenge about the game.&nbsp;So then it's really just a question of how frequently you wind up &quot;drawing dead&quot; against a &quot;monster hand&quot;. And poker has engineered that to happen maybe at least a few times on any night of poker play.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Delta, post: 4508505, member: 40269"] I'm going to disagree with this analogy. Honest question: Do you actually play poker? I can't tell one way or the other. (1) Luck is inherently a part of poker. There's a phrase called "bad beat" for when a poker player does everything correct, was ahead in the hand, and still gets beaten anyway. It's specifically a mark of a good poker player that they can emotionally take a "bad beat" and deal with it. (IMO it's actually the most interesting thing about the game!) [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_beat]Bad beat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url] (2) It seems like the best analogy is whole poker match = character life; one hand = one encounter; folding = running away; busting out of chips = death. Then a "fold now card" would be = "you must run away from encounter", which I suppose is not that different from a [i]fear[/i] effect. It would take a "you instantly lose all your chips" card = instant death. (3) Of course, the equivalent to automatically losing your hand is just when an opposing player gets an unbeatable hand and you don't know about it. Of course, that's called "drawing dead" and it definitely happens; it's one of the recognized categories of "bad beats", having a strong hand clobbered by an even stronger hand (see link). And again, professional players play with that risk all the time, and some of us think it's the most interesting mental challenge about the game. So then it's really just a question of how frequently you wind up "drawing dead" against a "monster hand". And poker has engineered that to happen maybe at least a few times on any night of poker play. [/QUOTE]

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