Its the same as world wide really, take out a deck of cards while you're with card players and you either get asked to watch their 21 card trick, or to cut to 4 aces after they shuffle, or just sit back and watch your magic.
Card games is at their prime in Middle East, games like Baloot (mixture of old french game with 32 cards and some basics of poker ) is heavely played in gulf countries, and Tarneeb ( mainly played in Lebebon and Syria ) is extremly popular that many people sit back for more than 6 hours of straight playing. And now with Poker and BlackJack slowing entering the region, we can try out these poker deals, and show off our abilites of card counting in Black Jack!