Is there anyone who has not heard of it, or played an intimate poker hand amongst friends, at home? The Casino de la Vallée offers the rare opportunity of enjoying a more ambitious game, involving not only sheer luck, which is however essential, but also experience, skill, prudence, audacious re-raisings, cold-blooded bluffs: a game amongst players only. As in the Chemin de Fer, the croupier deals the cards and the casino plays the role of general supervisor of the rules. Remember the film Cincinnati Kid, by Pupi Avati, and the quintessentially Italian ‘Christmas Present’? Card after card, hand after hand, the players fight with irresistible thrill. Imagine yourselves at the legendary table and remember, you can win with one pair and lose with a poker hand... The variant is the ‘teresina all’italiana’, invented in the distant Tennessee.

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