Texas Tango Hold ‘Em Mixer–Friday 6:00-8:00pm

General Concept:

• You will receive one playing card when you arrive.
• Various rules and games will be used to match you with a partner as shown below and posted next to the DJ table.
• At the end of the milonga, random groups of five will be created to form various poker hands.  Five minutes will be allowed for each group to try and improve their hand by trading cards with other groups. Each member of the group with the best “standard” poker hand will win one of the following:

Prizes:

• Free Passes to 2020 Chicago Windy City Tango Festival (Compliments of the organizer, Rod Relucio)
• Free Pass to 2020 Los Angeles Endless Summer Tango Marathon (Compliments of the organizer, Ilona Glinarsky)
• Free Pass to 2020 Louisville Tango Festival (Compliments of the organizer, Christy Byers)
• Full Pass to 2021 ValenTango® Festival (Compliments of yours truly, Clay Nelson)
• Free Pass to 2020 Phoenix Tango Marathon (Compliments of the organizer, James Baker)

The following tandas & techniques will be used to match partners and shuffle the cards:

1. Same color suit
2. Opposite color suit
3. Same Suit
4. Speed Shuffle
5. Spades & Hearts together and Diamonds & Clubs together
6. Diamonds & Spades together Clubs & Hearts together
7. Roulette Shuffle
8. Odd numbers dance with even numbers
9. Prime numbers dance with non-primes
10. Same value card (ignoring suit)
11. Waterfall Shuffle
12. Same color suit
13. Opposite color suit
14. Same Suit
15. Speed Shuffle