Would you see someone wearing dark sunglasses, like Phil Hellmuth? Or someone wearing goofy glasses, like Greg Raymer?
Would he wear a hoodie, a la Phil Laak? Or a cowboy hat, a la Doyle Brunson? (Or for that matter, would the "he" be a she?)
Despite the development of crazy-looking "character" players in the television age, there's no real stereotype of how a poker player should look. He can have any skin color, gender, nationality or age.
We were reminded of that last week when a man in a wheelchair who barely seemed able to speak beat us in a hand. He didn't wear glasses. He didn't wear a hat. He didn't even look like someone who would qualify for a "genius grant." Yet he won a big pot -- in fact, several.
Players like that remind us of the words of Jesus Christ:
Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment. - John 7:24 (KJV)
The Bible mentions a few strong men. But Goliath was knocked cold by a stone flung by a young man named David (I Samuel 17). And Samson succumbed to a persuasive woman, who talked him into revealing his secret of strength (Judges 16). Instead, the true greatest hero of the Bible is Someone who...
....had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. - Isaiah 53:2
This chapter is a prophetic description of Jesus Christ. And our Savior, every bit as much as that poker player in a wheelchair, is a reminder of the classic phrase, "Looks can be deceiving." Come to think of it, they can be every bit as deceiving as someone slow-playing pocket Aces.
But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.... so that no one may boast before him.... - I Corinthians 1:27, 29
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