1. Play as well as you can every session and enjoy the people and the game.

2. Never mock a new player or acquaintance in poker because in six months you may find he/she is a very good friend.

3. Most long-time players agree: that if I never won another dime in the game of poker, that the people I have met through the game have made the whole experience worthwhile.

Play Poker. Talk Poker. Because Poker is America.

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