This leads to my favorite poker story, which I may have told you guys before. I was playing hold'em at a casino and I wasn't blending in at all. I was being real quiet, since I couldn't find anything in the conversation to pounce on. (I probably could if I were really trying, but I'm too shy unless the topic is something I can relate to.) That means I would stand out when I made a bet, because people figure when the quiet guy who rarely bets is in the pot, he must have something. That makes me predictable. (You can exploit this by occasionally betting when you have junk, but I wasn't feeling risky that night.) Gotta blend in somehow! Somehow the topic of pink shirts came up. An opportunity! I said, "Hey, remember that episode of The Simpsons where Homer wore a pink shirt, and it got him committed?" (It was a very famous episode -- the one featuring Michael Jackson.) Everybody was like, "Uhh, noooo..." -- damn! Attempt to blend failed. A while later I got a big hand -- a real big hand. Unthinkingly, I said to myself, "Hmmm..." A wise guy piped up: "Hey, remember that episode of The Simpsons where Homer flopped a full house and he said 'hmm'?"
Nobody called my bet.





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