Trouvé sur le net, grâce à la rétrospective de l'année 2000 du Club Poker, un article de blog décrivant les débuts au poker d'un John Random américain. Sans entrer dans le jugement, je crois que cet aveu révèle bien la part sombre qu'il y a en tout joueur de poker, de roulette, de paris sportifs, de jeux d'argent en général... N'oublions pas que nous jouons par et pour le pognon, et, force est d'avouer, que cet aspect-là du jeu ouvre une fenêtre sur toutes les perversions de l'âme humaine.
Vous trouverez ci-dessous le texte original en anglais, ainsi qu'une traduction assurée par mes soins. Et vous en penserez ce que vous voulez. Bonne année, bande de feignasses !
La mort aux rats
Noël 2000
Okay, vous allez peut-être penser que je suis la pire personne au monde, mais ce qui suit est une histoire vraie.
Je travaillais comme ambulancier aux urgences lorsque nous reçumes un appel concernant une dame qui vomissait tripes et boyaux, à la sortie de la ville, dans une banlieue de classe moyenne inférieure.
Nous la trouvâmes dans sa salle de bains. C'était une grand-maman de 68 ans et force était de constater qu'elle vomissait d'immenses gerbes bleus.
"Qu'avez-vous mangé", lui demandai-je. Je n'avais jamais vu du vomi bleu avant.
"De la mort aux rats," me répondit-elle entre deux saccades. Il y avait du vomi bleu partout sur ses vêtements et sur le sol de la salle de bains. C'était comme si un Charles Manson en bleu avait été là.
"J'ai perdu six cents dollars," elle pleurait.
"Avez-vous appelé la police ?"
"Non," elle gerba encore. "Je les ai perdu au casino." Je fus touché par l'éruption suivante. "Je veux mourir," elle haleta.
"Ce poison fera l'affaire," lui dis-je, "Mais vous ne mourrez pas aujourd'hui. Nous allons vous emmener avec nous."
Pendant qu'elle me racontait son histoire, je lui mis le masque à oxygène et lui branchai le moniteur cardiaque. Nous l'emmenâmes, sirènes hurlantes.
À l'Hôpital, le personnal médical lui enfila un long tube dans l'estomac afin de pomper le poison qui y résidait.
"Pourquoi une gentille vieille dame voudrait prendre de la mort aux rats ?," me demanda une infirmière.
"Elle a perdu tout son argent en jouant au poker à Foxwoods (célèbre casino américain de la côte est. NdT.)".
"C'est horrible."
"La semaine dernière, j'ai eu un autre cas avec une vieille dame -- déshydratation et atteinte dans sa santé mentale. Sa fille m'a dit qu'elle avait été à Foxwoods jouer au poker pendant quatre jours de suite sans manger ou prendre ses médicaments"
"Ils ne devraient pas laisser jouer des gens comme ça."
"Je ne sais pas," répondis-je. "Je suis en train de réfléchir à descendre au Foxwoods moi-même. Je ne connais rien au poker, mais j'ai des chances si mes adversaires sont comme ces deux vieilles dames."
"Tu es horrible," me lança l'infirmière, "À propos, tu as du vomi bleu sur tes pantalons" ajouta-t-elle.
***
Hey, appellez-moi "coeur de pierre", mais c'est l'histoire qui m'amena à m'asseoir aux tables. Je ne suis certainement pas capable de bluffer T.J. Cloutier, d'avoir un read sur Doyle Brunson ou de pièger Howard Lederer, mais quand il est question de checkraiser des vieilles dames, je ne montre aucune hésitation. Aucune.
***
Rat poison
Christmas 2000
Okay, you're going to think I'm the worst person in the world, but this is a true story.
I'm working the 911 ambulance when we get a call for a woman vomiting up near the city line off Blue Hills Avenue, a lower middle class neighborhood.
We find her in the bathroom. A sixty-eight year old grandmother, and sure enough she's vomiting -- vomiting huge chunks of snow cone blue vomit.
"What'd you eat?" I ask. I've never seen blue vomit before.
"Rat poison," she says in between retches. There is blue vomit all over her clothes and the bathroom floor. Its like Charles Manson in blue has been there.
"I lost six hundred dollars," she cries.
"Did you tell the police?"
"No," She pukes again. "I lost it at the casino." I get hit with the next blast. "I want to die," she gasps.
"This stuff will do it," I say, "But you're not dying today. We need to get you going with us."
While she tells me her sad tale, I put her on oxygen, pop in an IV line, and hook up the heart monitor. We take her in lights and sirens wailing.
At the hospital the medical staff shoves a long plastic tube into the woman's stomach to pump the poison out.
"Why would a nice old lady want to eat rat poison," the triage nurse asks me after I wheel my stretcher out of the room.
"She lost all her money playing poker at Foxwoods," I tell her.
"That's terrible."
"Last week I had another old lady -- dehydrated with altered mental status. Her daughter told me she'd been at Foxwoods playing poker for four days straight and hadn't eaten or taken her medicine."
"They shouldn't let people like that gamble."
"I don't know," I say. "I'm thinking about going down to Foxwoods myself. I don't know anything about poker, but I'm liking my chances if my competition is ladies like those two."
"You're awful," she says, "By the way you've got blue vomit on your pants," the nurse says.
Okay, you're going to think I'm the worst person in the world, but this is a true story.
I'm working the 911 ambulance when we get a call for a woman vomiting up near the city line off Blue Hills Avenue, a lower middle class neighborhood.
We find her in the bathroom. A sixty-eight year old grandmother, and sure enough she's vomiting -- vomiting huge chunks of snow cone blue vomit.
"What'd you eat?" I ask. I've never seen blue vomit before.
"Rat poison," she says in between retches. There is blue vomit all over her clothes and the bathroom floor. Its like Charles Manson in blue has been there.
"I lost six hundred dollars," she cries.
"Did you tell the police?"
"No," She pukes again. "I lost it at the casino." I get hit with the next blast. "I want to die," she gasps.
"This stuff will do it," I say, "But you're not dying today. We need to get you going with us."
While she tells me her sad tale, I put her on oxygen, pop in an IV line, and hook up the heart monitor. We take her in lights and sirens wailing.
At the hospital the medical staff shoves a long plastic tube into the woman's stomach to pump the poison out.
"Why would a nice old lady want to eat rat poison," the triage nurse asks me after I wheel my stretcher out of the room.
"She lost all her money playing poker at Foxwoods," I tell her.
"That's terrible."
"Last week I had another old lady -- dehydrated with altered mental status. Her daughter told me she'd been at Foxwoods playing poker for four days straight and hadn't eaten or taken her medicine."
"They shouldn't let people like that gamble."
"I don't know," I say. "I'm thinking about going down to Foxwoods myself. I don't know anything about poker, but I'm liking my chances if my competition is ladies like those two."
"You're awful," she says, "By the way you've got blue vomit on your pants," the nurse says.
***
Hey, call me cold-hearted, but that's the story of how I came to sit at the tables. I may not be able to bluff T.J. Cloutier, make a read on Doyle Brunson, or outthink Howard Lederer, but when it comes to checkraising old ladies, I show no hesitation. No hesitation.
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1 commentaire:
Merci pour la traduction dude.
Cet article est flippant mais ça revient au même quand on se fap fap sur le sharkscope négatif de nos adversaires :)
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