Can't read my poker face

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I picked up some random beers when I last dropped in to drinkstore and I have never had beer from either brewery.
Hailing from Manchester is Joseph Holt Sixex, a beer that I don't quite get. Not the beer itself mind, just the name and spiel that goes with it. I don't know what a sixex is, perhaps it has something to do with cards if the picture is anything to go by. Described as:

A TRADITIONAL BEER FOR REAL PLAYERS

It does not really give me an impression of what to expect, and why any poker player would drink pints of 6% beer and expect to win anything I don't know.

Anyway the beer itself pours like a porter. A very dark brown which borders on black and a massive foamy white head. Burnt toffee and raisins dominate at the start moving towards a sweet finish with very little hop bitterness. Perhaps a little chocolate and coffee mixed in but the beer does not seem to have a defining characteristic, unless having little to no bitterness is a characteristic. All in all I enjoyed the beer and I suppose I would gladly drink some while playing poker. Since I don't know how to play the game, perhaps the beer is aimed at people like me?

Off to Germany now for a bit of a mouthful. Augustinerbräu münchen dunkel. I love dark beers and I love Dunkels as a result but this did not seem like any dunkel I have had before. Even how it looks is different. It's not very dark, in fact it looks like a red ale. On the nose I got chocolate, toffee, brown sugar and a strong whiff of prunes. When I tasted it I was immediately struck by the prunes, so much so it was like someone had put prune juice in a soda stream and carbonated it, and then shook it so it was not too fizzy which is odd. Chocolate, toffee and caramel were also evident.
I enjoyed this beer very much, perhaps because it was so different to what I expected. I might have been drinking a so called "Irish Red".