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Poker commentary

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This is not Card Player magazine. The anonymous editor who keeps putting his/her commentary back in should consider several objections:

  • Unless you are a published writer, your opinion on the improbability of the rules constitutes WP:POV.
  • This is a special, once-a-year, semi-private game. They can use whatever rules they want.
  • The rules as they exist today do not mean they were set in stone from the beginning of time. You need to cite a reference about the rules at that time before you can even begin to address the previous issues.

See The Cincinnati Kid#Notes on the play for how to comment in an encyclopedic manner. Clarityfiend (talk) 21:01, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If the subject of the dispute is, was poker ever played with the possibility that a pot could be lost because a player could not match a bet, the answer is, probably. This movie is not the only place where this sort of situation is discussed: Jim Thompson mentions a real-life game that worked that way.--67.113.25.163 (talk) 04:26, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Gunsmoke

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Similar story. Season 3, episode 34 (May 3, 1958) is called "The Big Con" where a group of men stage a high stakes card game in Dodge City's Long Branch saloon. One goes to the town banker and asks for $20,000 loan with a card hand of four aces and a ten, saying he needs the money "to call" and that he cannot lose. The banker hands over the money and the man loses to a 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of hearts. The loser promises to pay the $20,000 soon but Marshall Dillon suspects it is a con game, as it is, and he tricks the gang into running, so he can catch them.(5.8.190.86 (talk) 18:48, 6 September 2017 (UTC))[reply]