poker gambling dens in the lessons I have learned to walk in the world. Not that those clubs, and far, had great teachers nothing, except art drawn an ace from the sleeve or changing the deck at the right time. There used to sit at the table, among others of the same rope, a representative of bras, a consort marquise dealer who was in Havana, a dentist who resold on the black market the gold for teeth, a physician could not even take the stress, the manager of an automobile graveyard and a ham rude, who spent the entire game belching beer. One day I told the painter Beppo me as a young man in the Faculty wanted to study psychology. "Puaff, psychology!. This subject in my time in Paris was learned directly from the brothels" I answered this bohemian artist, who had been a friend of Modigliani and then married a Tunisian prince, who left him standing in a flamenco show in Seville with eating at the table to escape with the guitarist. Some basic principles of psychology's learned after those gambling houses according to the burlangas taught professionals and anyone can apply to life. If after three games of poker do not know yet who the fool is the fool you. Do not ever take a personal grudge against a particular player or try to humiliate him with a move ahead. While you have the cards in hand no ego ever goals in the game. Leave your successes and failures, envy and vanity at home before getting into the gambling den. The cards are very fickle, once made a silent curse, because the deck can get anything, you know, from a crocodile to a bishop. In the kittens was always a loser with glowing ears, eyes and strawberries, with a cigarette in his mouth and one on in the ashtray full of butts, which again raise a blind and trying to recover a windfall. This case can be applied to politics. The winner is usually very calm, known to play with the money you lost and is limited to exploiting their lack of control to finish plucking. Politics, like poker, is a tough game, cool, intelligent, nothing temperamental. In politics, the players never win that heat to regain power at any cost and insult the opponent emitting smoke from the ears and a taste of ashes in the mouth.
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Manuel Vicent / Article.
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