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Thread: japanese poker players!!!!

  1. #1
    Junior Member Male
    Join Date Dec 4, 2008
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    Australia

    japanese poker players!!!!


    国際交流パーティー - Tokyo International Party

    hey im going to be in japan over xmas and new years and was wanting to get to a casino to play some poker... but i wanted to know how to say the right words. so i need to know how to say
    call
    check
    fold
    and most importantly ALL IN!!

    please help. thanks
  2. #2
    Male
    Join Date Apr 20, 2008
    Location Damp, Scotland
    Posts 119
    UK - Scotland
    Poker being the universal language and all, I believe you'll be understood perfectly if you just romanjicise your pronunciation, and probably legitimately misunderstood if you use one of the 271 odd possible words for, example, call.
    (cant do tidy links yet, so ht*p://jisho.org/words?jap=&eng=call&dict=edict )

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