I prefer “Quietness” silence … I also prefer speed. Because that’s how I learned to play the original Poker, back in the 50s.
I remember my father playing with his friends; every week it was played in the house of a different one. It was not allowed to talk, for that purpose lunch was served, and sometimes dinner. It was also not allowed to semblance, or touch the chips. I remember that the one who did not answer in three seconds, was out of the game.
They were all businessmen, they played for pleasure, but it was pleasure with respect to these rules.
For the conversations, attentions, respect, and good manners, the moments were when they arrived, usually with their wives, during lunches and dinners, and when they said goodbye until the next meeting.
But over time everything changes, people, customs, places, rules, and even Poker itself. The ability for a wise person is to adapt and update to new circumstances.
In these last 75 short years, we went from the absence of TV, to play Poker through the Internet. It is not easy to imagine what it will be like in the year 2100.
The attitude of Warmth & Good Manners must accompany us at all times, and the Skill, is something positive that leads us to progress, and something natural in the human being.
