Photo 365 - Day 217 (Full Tilt Poker)

Day 217 (February 5th, 2011)
Title: Full Tilt Poker

For those of you who don't know me personally, I have a dark and spooky secret.  I love puns.  Silly puns, bad puns, it matters not!  I love puns!  I also enjoy games, including poker.  One of the more common terms in poker is "Tilt" (e.g: "He just lost 35 hands in a row!  He's tilting!").  Basically, after one looses a large hand, they get mad and upset, which in turn causes them to lose MORE hands, ad infinitum.  When one gets to a full level of tiltiness (new word!), its called: Full Tilt.  In my love of finding more puns, I decided this idea needed a bit more of a literal representation and in the middle of a game, realized I in fact, could show "Full Tilt Poker" happening.

Did I mention I love puns?  Cause I do!


Enjoy

Photo 365 - Day 93 (Riffle Shuffle)

Day 93 (October 4th, 2010)
Title: Riffle Shuffle

I was lucky enough to be invited to a poker game last night and unlucky enough to be out 2nd.  Still, that gave me a lot of extra time to take photos!  I also had a great idea for next weeks photos (Ooo!  Foreboding!).  So, basically it was a $20.00 brainstorming night!  I did get lovely free "adult beverages", so I think that more than made up for it. 

This particular photo is of a "riffle" shuffle, which is when you basically split the deck, then use your thumbs to just lift up on corner of each pile the cards and "riffle" them together.  Its also known as a "dealer shuffle", because it is the standard (and preferred) method of shuffling in a casino.  It takes practice and a good deck of cards, but once you get the hang of it you look all kinds of cool when you do it! 

Techie bits:

100mm Macro lens
f/4.0 at 1/60th

I wish I could have gotten better lighting on it, but I tried with just the normal flash and it blew out all of the details, so I just went with the darker version so the feel of it would be better.

Enjoy!

Photo 365 - Day 17 (Craps)

Day 17 (July 20th, 2010)
Title: Craps Out

Craps is, without a doubt, my favorite game to play in Tahoe and Vegas.  Now, that doesn't mean that I'm good at it, its just my favorite.  I tried to over-saturate the colors just a bit to give it that "old Vegas" feel, like a 50's ad.