Pocket Queens: Poker, Women, Stories
Pocket Queens: Poker, Women, Stories Julie Rak How to cite: Rak, J. Pocket Queens: Poker, Women, Stories. Critical Gambling Studies . https://doi.org/10.29173/cgs100 This non-peer reviewed entry is published as part of the Critical Gambling Studies Blog. It’s the dead of winter in Edmonton, and it’s a cold, clear Friday night. Time to play some poker. With my work day done, I turn off my computer, and I put on a pair of old jeans and a dark hoodie. I reserve my spot, and then get my gear together: my phone and earbuds, my money clip with the magnet for a couple of loonies, and my Humanities Special Achievement Medal from 1989. It’s round and heavy, and has part of my undergrad university’s crest on it. It’s a perfect card marker because it’s impossible to ship with the pot by accident, and it’s the part of my academic identity that I can take along with me to the card room without saying too much about it. Into the money clip I put a wad of bills that’s worth a couple of buy