[Chomp]

Can you discern national characteristics in the way people from different countries play poker and/or gamble?

If you decide to take up this question, I'd be particularly interested in comments about French and Russian players.

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Perhaps related, I remember hearing a fascinating theory once.

Throughout Russian history there have been a series of autocratic hard-man leaders, punctuated every few decades by violent revolution, leading to the ousting of the hard man.

But inevitably, before too long, once the revolution has run its course, yet another hard-man autocrat ends up in charge and so the cycle continues.

This can be explained, the theory goes, by the way Russian babies were swaddled: they are wrapped very, very tight from head to toe as infants. This constriction is relieved intermitently when the baby is changed/fed/washed...this in turn means the grown-up Russian is capable of bearing long periods of oppression followed by fits of intermitent revolution/release.

Vrai ou faux?