Survival of the Fittest

I love poker and I love love. And I'll tell you why. It's in the genes, baby.

James McManus agrees:

The beauty of no-limit hold’em, in fact, parallels that of all human mating procedures. Biologically, we bet that our hole cards (read: DNA) will combine with the cards on the board (our prospective mate’s DNA) to produce the strongest hand or fittest amalgam—that is, the one with the best chance of surviving the contest of life by launching the most, and most fit, genes into the next generation…

From Positively 5th Street, a fine, fine book.

I'm off now to my newest (hopefully) regular game, where I hope to make Darwin proud.