Poker!

For the past three or four weeks, i have been trying to figure out on how to play poker. I ve been listening soo much about poker. So i decided to start playing. a few of my good friends in facebook sent me an invitation. Firstly it took me time to search for my userid and password of facebook. Then search for the poker application invitation amidst a thousands of invitations for useless quizzes. Then, after searching for it, it took me about three days for the application to get loaded.(it is still not actually loaded in my profile).

The first time, Sridhar came in and played with me. we were having gtalk on. So i could ask him my doubts and get them clarified(?!). Anyways, i did not understand the game. when i was trying to figure out what to do, i clicked on some button and it was my turn by then. All the chips went in for bidding. "All in? Are u crazy?" "What? what happened?" not realising what happened, at that moment, i went to check out how the game is played. Yes, i went there again inspite of not understanding it reading the first time. This has been the firrst game for which i had to go back to the instructions. most of the games, i directly start playing and very few i read the instructions before going in. ohk. so i went back to the instructions in the middle of the game. then, he says wow!. not knowing why i go there back to the table to figure out what happened. i saw that there were more chips than what i had before starting the game because i won. That game, i did not even look into my cards. This game was somewhere at 10 or 11 at night, when i was interested in knowing what is so interesting in the game that so many people are crazy.
Then, sridhar went away saying that it was the table with serious players, and as a rookie, i should not have gone there first. 9K chips is what i won. Sheer fluke!

then, i played about twice there. i won and lost. still could not figure out the game. Then, once i again won in fluke. i went back to sridhar and said " ive won 10 K chips. but i dont understand the game yet." sridhar: " i ve won 100K chips and i dont understand it either" (EKSI)

Then yesterday, when mom was busy doing some work, i happened to switch on the TV (something so rare), and started seeing friends. it was an episode where the girls figure out on how to play poker. Mom was so busy that i could not have the volume loud enough to listen the dialogues. but still i could figure out that the girls went trhough a struggle to "apparently" win the game. WHY is it that poker is not all that easy for women or girls?Some curse that i dont get to listen or read the instructions properly at all. (GRRRR)
Then, today, i pinged a friend of mine(soundarya) who has earned 26K chips. She has almost the same problem as i have. So she searched out a really old chat conversation of a friend who tried to teach her. Well, i am now done with reading that and have understood that. Only hoping that girl power wins over poker too.