Snippets of Conversation on and off the Poker Table part six
As Kai Landry has proven this also works on on a Texas Holdem poker table if you want to mind-f somebody do and say stuff that makes no sense at all. Try as they might they won’t be able to stop themselves from replaying the situation in the head time and time again. This is even more effective in Omaha poker and suddenly you'll be typecast as the nut who never has it. You want action? You'll get it. Anyway, back to the store, when we paused as my wife saw something flashy, glitterly and likely improbably expensive that attracted her eye, the saleslady engaged in some of the banal conversation openers that she learned in some hour long training seminar on how to engage the customers. She knew she needed to ask us our names and like a good hooters waitress knew she’d increase the likelihood of a sale, or an up-sale, by initiating physical contact. By the way, strippers learned the immense value of this sales technique first, and everybody from a car salesman to a shoesal...