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Date
1948
Created by frosst on July 30, 2009. A round of betting in poker, usually occurring as the result of a card(s) being dealt. In Hold 'Em and Omaha, the river card and betting round is known as 5th street.
Classification
Paintings
- In 1947, Thomas Hart Benton was commissioned by Hollywood producer David O. Selznick to create an original painting based on a scene in the film version of Tennessee Williams’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, A Streetcar Named Desire. The work was a gift for Selznick’s first wife, Irene, a theatrical producer responsible for bringing the play to Broadway in the same year. Poker Night captures.
- What makes a full house in poker? A Full House is any three cards of the same number or face value, plus any other two cards of the same number or face value.An example of a full house is, but is.
- The card in a round of betting for which only one new card is dealt or revealed. The street number identifies the number of cards each player has at that point in a stud game or the number of board cards that have been revealed in a community card game. EXAMPLE: 'Fourth street was the Jack of spades.' APPLIES TO: Online and Land-based Venues.
- Tilting is closely associated with another poker term, 'steam'. Placing an opponent on tilt or dealing with being on tilt oneself is an important aspect of poker. It is a relatively frequent occurrence due to frustration, animosity against other players, or simply bad luck.
Medium
Tempera and oil on linen mounted on composition board
Dimensions
Sheet (sight): 36 × 48in. (91.4 × 121.9 cm)
Accession number
85.49.2
Credit line
Mrs. Percy Uris Bequest
Rights and reproductions
© T.H. Benton and R.P. Benton Testamentary Trusts / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
In 1947, Thomas Hart Benton was commissioned by Hollywood producer David O. Selznick to create an original painting based on a scene in the film version of Tennessee Williams’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, A Streetcar Named Desire. The work was a gift for Selznick’s first wife, Irene, a theatrical producer responsible for bringing the play to Broadway in the same year. Poker Night captures the sexual tension and violent undertones in the relationships between Blanche DuBois, a down-and-out Southern belle (holding up a mirror), her sister, Stella (leaning over the armchair), and Stella’s husband, the hot-tempered, childlike Stanley Kowalski (wearing a white undershirt). It documents one of the play’s most dramatic and memorable moments, when Blanche taunts a drunk and angry Stanley with her petty provocations and refined airs.
Audio
Thomas Hart Benton, Poker Night (from A Streetcar Named Desire), 1948
Thomas Hart Benton, Poker Night (from A Streetcar Named Desire), 1948
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Kathryn Potts: As you look at this painting by Thomas Hart Benton, I think you can't help but be aware of the incredible sense of artificiality.
Narrator: Kathryn Potts is Associate Director, Helena Rubinstein Chair of Education at the Whitney.
Kathryn Potts: However, the theatricality of the painting is totally appropriate because what we're looking at is a scene from the theatre and these are actors on a stage. The play is Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize winning A Streetcar Named Desire, which would later become a movie. This painting was painted on commission. It was intended as a surprise gift for Irene Selznik, who was the producer of Streetcar.
What's really interesting about the story, however, is that Jessica Tandy, who plays the Blanche Du Bois character was incredibly offended by the way that Benton portrayed her. She looks actually like she 'd be the prize contestant in a wet T-shirt contest. Her dress reveals more than it covers up. What's also interesting is that you compare the painting, as presented by Benton, to photographs that were actually made of the stage version of the play, Jessica Tandy never wore a dress like this. She in fact wore these kind of flouncy costumes with ribbons and bows on them, and southern-lady type hats, and she wasn't at all somebody who would have tried to catch the attention of Stanley.
And Benton kind of creates his own interpretation. And it was really this reason that Tandy as an actress felt that it was very inappropriate, and the way we would probably describe this today was that she felt that Benton was blaming the victim.
Thomas Hart Benton, Poker Night (from A Streetcar Named Desire), 1948
Thomas Hart Benton, Poker Night (from A Streetcar Named Desire), 1948
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Kathryn Potts: Al observar esta pintura de Thomas Hart Benton, creo que es imposible evitar la increíble sensación de artificialidad.
Narrador: Kathryn Potts es Directora Asociada y Presidenta Helena Rubinstein de Educación en el Whitney.
Kathryn Potts: Sin embargo, la teatralidad que observamos en la pintura es completamente apropiada, ya que se trata de una escena de teatro interpretada por actores en el escenario. La obra es Un tranvía llamado deseo de Tennessee Williams, que fue galardonada con un Premio Pulitzer y más tarde sería llevada a la gran pantalla. Esta pintura se realizó por encargo y tenía por objeto servir de obsequio sorpresa para Irene Selznik, productora de la obra teatral.
No obstante, lo que es interesante, en realidad, acerca de la historia es que Jessica Tandy, quien interpretaba el personaje de Blanche Du Bois, se sintió increíblemente ofendida por la manera en que Benton la retrató. De hecho, pareciera que se tratase de la ganadora de un concurso de camisetas mojadas. El vestido que lleva deja ver más de lo que cubre. Es interesante, además, que si uno compara la pintura, tal como la concibió Benton, con fotografías que se tomaron de la versión de la obra interpretada en escena, Jessica Tandy nunca llevó un vestido semejante. En realidad, usaba ese tipo de trajes con volados, cintas y moños, y sombreros de estilo sureño, y de ninguna forma habría intentado captar la atención de Stanley.
De alguna manera, Benton crea su propia interpretación. Y ese fue el verdadero motivo por el que Tandy, como actriz, lo consideró muy inapropiado. Hoy en día probablemente diríamos que ella sintió que Benton estaba culpabilizando a la víctima.
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Tilt originated as a poker term for a state of mental or emotional confusion or frustration in which a player adopts a less than optimal strategy, usually resulting in the player becoming over-aggressive. Tilting is closely associated with another poker term, 'steam'.
Placing an opponent on tilt or dealing with being on tilt oneself is an important aspect of poker. It is a relatively frequent occurrence due to frustration, animosity against other players, or simply bad luck.
One possible origin of the word 'tilt' is as a reference to tilting a pinball machine. The frustration from seeing the ball follow a path towards the gap between the flippers can lead to the player physically tilting the machine in an attempt to guide the ball towards the flippers. However, in doing so, some games will flash the word 'TILT' and freeze the flippers, causing the ball to be lost for certain; as in poker, this suggests that over-aggression due to frustration leads to severely detrimental playing techniques.[1]
While 'tilting' originally applied to poker, it has recently become a common term when talking about other games, especially chess and esports titles. Tilting in esports causes players to 'lose control due to anger'.[2]
Common Causes of Tilt[edit]
The most common cause of tilt is losing, especially being defeated in a particularly public and humiliating fashion. In poker, a bad beat can upset the mental equilibrium essential for optimal poker judgment, causing frustration. Another common cause of tilt is bad manners from other players causing frustration which eventually leads to tilting.
Though not as commonly acknowledged or discussed, it is also quite possible to go on 'winner's tilt' as a result of a positive trigger: such as winning unexpectedly, or going on a string of good luck. Strong positive emotions can be just as dizzying and detrimental to one's play as negative ones. Tilting and winner's tilt can both lead to the same habits.
Advice when tilted[edit]
For the beginning player, the elimination or minimization of tilt is considered an essential improvement that can be made in play (for instance in the strategic advice of Mike Caro). Many advanced players (after logging thousands of table-hours) claim to have outgrown 'tilt' and frustration, although other poker professionals admit it is still a 'leak' in their game.
One commonly suggested way to fight tilt is to disregard the outcomes of pots, particularly those that are statistically uncommon. So-called 'bad beats,' when one puts a lot of chips in the pot with the best hand and still loses, deserve little thought; they are the product of variance, not bad strategy. This mindset calls for the player to understand poker is a game of decisions and correct play in making the right bets over a long period of time.
Another method for avoiding tilt is to try lowering one's variance, even if that means winning fewer chips overall. Therefore, one may play passively and fold marginal hands, even though that may mean folding the winning hand. This may also imply that one plays tightly— and looks for advantageous situations.
Once tilt begins, players are well-advised to leave the table and return when emotions have subsided. When away from the table, players are advised to take time to refresh themselves, eat and drink (non-alcoholic) if necessary, and take a break outside in the fresh air.
If none of these work in lessening tilt, players are advised to leave the game and not return to playing until they have shaken off the results that led to the tilt.
The intent of the advice is to prevent the upset person from letting negative emotions lead to bigger losses that can seriously hurt one's bankroll.
Tilt must be taken seriously, requiring immediate attention following its presence. The progression in poker for chronically tilted players may be significantly hindered as their judgement becomes progressively impaired as agitation becomes more prominent. Paying close attention to playing statistics can assist in preventing this, as a statistical overview of recent hands can reduce the players likelihood to play impulsive hands habitually.[3]
Tilting others[edit]
The act of putting an opponent on tilt may not pay off in the short run, but if some time is put into practicing it, a player can quickly become an expert at 'tilting' other players (with or without using bad manners). In theory, the long-run payoff of this tactic is a monetarily positive expectation.
Common methods of putting a table on tilt include:
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- Playing junk hands that have a lower chance of winning in the hope of either sucking out and delivering a bad beat (which can be an enjoyable occasional style which will make the table's play 'looser') or bluffing the opponent off a better hand (with the option of showing the bluff for maximum tilting effect).
- Victimising individuals at the table, (which is often considered a more old-fashioned tactic, identified with 1970s 'verbal' experts such as Amarillo Slim.)
- Pretending intoxication, i.e. hustling, excellently demonstrated by Paul Newman against Robert Shaw in The Sting (although his technique included cheating).
- Constant chattering, making weird noises and motions whenever you win a hand, or other erratic behavior is a 'tilting' or 'loosening' approach first discussed by Mike Caro.
- Taking an inordinate or otherwise inappropriate amount of time to announce and show your hand (also called 'slow-rolling') at the showdown. (Such deliberate breaches of etiquette have the side effect of slowing play and risking barring, thereby limiting the earnings of the expert player. For this, and other social reasons, such tactics are mostly associated with novices.)
These antics can upset the other players at the table with the intention of getting them to play poorly.
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See also[edit]
4th Street Poker
References[edit]
- ^Gambling with the Myth of the American Dream by Aaron M. Duncan
- ^What to pay attention to in the OpenAI Five Benchmark
- ^'HowToLearnPoker.net: Being on tilt can ruin your poker bankroll'. howtolearnpoker.net. Retrieved 2011-08-24.