City Preacher Says Pokers Okay

Pastor John Van Sloten has preached about finding God in many items of pop culture, ranging form the heavy metal rock and roll band icon Mettalica to the every popular, long running animated show, The Simpsons. Now it seems that Van Sloten is ready to show his congregation, as well as those looking on via Internet live feeds, of the virtues of poker, specifically the Cadillac of poker known as Texas Holdem. Part of his sermon will explain that the Bible says very little about games of chance, which many might find surprising.

Also what might be a surprising take on the church and gambling is that Van Sloten proposes that humans are made to gamble; just so long as it is done with wisdom, as everything should be….

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Useful poker terms:

BACK DOOR - Applies to a hand that was made in the last card or two, specifically not a hand the player was originally planning on having. Most often applied to straights and flushes.
FISH - A player who loses money. An old saying is "If you can't spot the fish at the table, *you* are the fish.".
LIMIT POKER - A poker game wherein the amount to be bet is fixed, or at most variable within a prescribed minimum and maximum. Ant.: NO-LIMIT POKER.
BLACK - When referring to chips, black usually stands for $100 casino chips. "This guy sits down with a stack of blacks and raises the first bet." Not ALL casinos use black for $100 but that is the common usage.
SIDE POT - When an active player runs out of money during the course of a hand, the remaining players participate in a second or SIDE POT for the rest of the hand. Additional side pots are possible if several players run out of money at different points in a hand.
SMALL BLIND - In games with two blinds the first blind is the SMALL BLIND because it is usually one-half (or less) the second or large blind.

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