Jack and Ten of Diamonds on Fourth and Fifth Street

Welcome to my blog, Jack and Ten of Diamonds on Fourth and Fifth Street. I am Tri Do, a junior at University Laboratory High School in Urbana, Illinois. This is a blog for my class  Non-Fiction Writing,  however I may continue to use this blog after the class has ended. Now, you may be wondering "What does the title of the blog mean?" The title is related to a game of Texas hold'em poker,  one of my all-time favorite hobbies. I started playing poker in 4th grade during Spanish club. We were playing Five-card draw , the version of poker everyone first learns. I don't remember the details of that session, however I remember it as being a much more fun card game than Go Fish or Vietnamese card games my parents played when they were young. In middle school, one of my friends had poker chips, and taught my brother and I how to play Texas hold'em,  the most popular form of poker. I remember a lot of fun times and dumb plays I did (like betting the limit on a pair of A