Artistic Taste in the Poker Club
Poker is rich in aesthetics. The enormously popular game developed over the centuries into an exquisite form of intellectual art. It has accumulated not only distinctive rules, but long-standing traditions. A genuine poker player is there not merely to spend some time away from his work or family. A genuine poker player enters the establishment and sits down at the table with a keen sense of poker as profession and of the profession as a complex and noble tradition. The game is elevated from mere week-end pass time for the rich to an intense imaginative experience.