[Collin]
Shey, pull up a chair, join us.
It is a rare occurrence
for your appearance
to attend a night of bridge.
Poker’s more you game.
[Grace]
Mom, please explain to me why
poker is your course of choice
over bridge since you
worked so hard to convince me
it’s a sacrilege
to partake in gambling funds
for the sake of having fun.
[Marlene]
You should know, Grace, that
Shey is always successful
when she plays poker.
It’s not so stressful for her
because folks fear to incur
her perceptive skills
and her cunning strategies
employed with such ease.
She never goes home with less
than she invests in the night’s
fair entertainment
while others despair their
poor education.
[Collin]
Bridge is a game of artful
communication designed
to reveal the cards
assigned to the hand you’re dealt
to congeal with those
dealt to your partner to steal
more tricks during play to spur
your team’s advancement
and blur your rival’s chances
of winning the day’s
card-play’s challenges that may
also improve clarity
to gain confidence
in your specificity
to explain details.
Poker’s a game of artful
deception to skillfully
deceive opponents
to believe more value sits
in your cards that will
retard whatever value
your fellow players construe
to be their winning
hand to gain the grand pot’s gold
and thus fold their hand
to withstand more loss of cash
when they toss their hands away.
However, shrewdness
would certainly be remiss
to miss a window
of opportunity to
downplay your hand, betting small
to draw out other’s
confidence to stay in ’til
you meet their raise with
a smaller raise to sweeten
the pot when your hand is called
and you drop down your
straight flush to crush all their hopes
to cope gracefully.
Poker’s for reading persons.
Bridge is for exactitude
in conveyance of
information and finesse
of the best card play.
[Shey]
Collin’s assessment to stress
and compress these games’ trainings
for maintaining high
levels of skills utilized
by professionals
seeking to contain evils
propagating social ills
is spot on target
to trumpet why he plays bridge
to herd precise words
into concise messages
pregnant with fine point meaning.
It’s about content
gleaned from a laser focus
burned through malarkey
that is key for me to seek
poker games to hone a sight
that is intensive
and vitally perceptive
to gain evidence
camouflaged to hide secrets
for Jill’s tight prosecutions
whose executions
must abide Collin’s fine-eyed
scrutinization.
[Jill]
Collin and I must rely
upon these two skills that will
enhance our play
but also advance our
employed performance.
Encoding and decoding
messages are at the core
for the transmissions
of clear communications
or false impressions.
If I encode the array
of the cards my hand displays
but Collin decodes
what I say differently,
or vice versa, then,
contra to our wishes,
we will miscommunicate
that might orchestrate
a terrible fate for us.
Hence, exactitude
must preclude all encoding
and decoding skillfulness.
Likewise, it’s useful
to assess the bidding code
of opponents when
their dummy-hand is exposed
to bestow bidding info
for any player
looking to know bidding codes
for face-up-cards shown.
[Cal]
Have a round of Shey Smoothies
to crown your round table — uh–
square table chatter —
on me — with no booze to please
Shey’s delicacy.
[Shey]
Thanks, but please change this drink’s name.
It’s a shame you are so strange !
[Cal]
It is all you drink !
I’d think you would explore more
of my nine smoothies.
My orange/banana sells
very well — fine aroma !
[Shey]
Tell me, what smoothie
is the top seller for you
to gather more cash?