POKER

If your dream centers around the gambling aspect of the game, you may be participating in some risk-taking activity in real life. You may be letting fate decide how things go, and not taking responsibility for your actions. Also see “Poker Chip” below.

The game requires a great deal of patience and strategic waiting in order to accomplish something.

If a poker game is featured in your dream, look for ways in which you are hiding what you really have to offer in an effort to gain something that you desire.

Using a fire poker signifies wasted effort in trying to rekindle a dying flame.

Don’t fret; a new fire can be built even before the ashes are cold.

To play at poker, warns you against evil company; and young women, especially, will lose their moral distinctiveness if they find themselves engaged in this game.

If the poker is used for defense, the dreamer is aware of an unfair plot that could be ruinous to reputation.

For a dream about playing poker, see Gambling.

2. A feeling of deception going on—likely in a situation, possibly a relation­ship.

3. Signifies a situation that may require good strategy and careful forethought.

If you have a good hand it symbolizes having an advantage in a situation.

If you have low value cards it symbolizes a need to make peace with your opponent

It is particularly unpropitious if you appear to be winning.