Pocket Aces - the most powerful starting handDeuce-seven unsuited - the weakest starting hand
How would you play these?
"You play the hand you are dealt" - a common metaphor
For making the best in life from what you have
A life of pocket aces would be the best
Except the odds are 221:1 against you getting them for starters.
So maybe sometimes you are dealt deuce-seven
But you act like you have pocket aces
And others believe you
If it is life, you still have to play
Maybe sometimes you are dealt pocket aces
But feeling inferior, you act like you have deuce-seven
And others believe you
It is life and you are not taking advantage of what you have
Pocket Aces.
I have been dealt these starters many times in life
More than my share
Beating the odds big time
I haven't always played them the best though
On the other hand I have been dealt plenty of deuce-sevens
And once in a while played them like a pro
I guess it depends on other factors
Sometimes just playing the hand
No matter what you are dealt
Is the greatest thrill
Like one of my great heroes, the one-armed young man
From the book, "Badass, the Harley Davidson Experience"
Who rode the scooter from his home in Texas
To Sturgis, South Dakota and back
He was just celebrating the hand he was dealt.
. . . . . .
To put things in perspective
Here is the hand I was dealt on this particularGorgeous Friday afternoon
In the City of Trees
A Perdomo Reserve stogie,
A Heineken
A damn good book (Steig Laarsen's latest)
A faithful, beloved hound dog
(Thanks for planting the idea Tom McD!)
2 comments:
"Playing the hand no matter what you are dealt..." That makes sense, and the one-armed young man is a good example. Sometimes making the best of what you can, will result in better results and more happiness, than having more choices and opportunities and not taking advantage of them.
Yup. Thanks for the comment Annie.
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