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Texas Hold'em Poker

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PigPen:
I love playing Hold 'Em, great game. It doesn't take long for the tide to turn in that game either.

schro:

--- Quote from: pburke on March 22, 2007, 05:32:37 AM ---i know i am about to offend someone but here goes anyway.


i like playing cards with the guys. we get together and play boo-ray (sp.) and we have a good time. but my question is this: How the hell is poker, or playing any kind of cards, a SPORT. fun pastime. good hobby. nice income for some, but a sport, come on. it just makes no sense to me how that is called a sport. sorry if i offend someone but i just want to know the answer.

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I'm offended that you'd find your potentially offensive comment offending. To me it's not a "sport", it's a "skill" that appeals to many Ordinary Americans.

schro:

--- Quote from: Tyler on March 21, 2007, 11:12:37 PM ---I play online with my PSP and WSOP.  It's a good time, but the problem with online is that people play very loose and you end up getting beat by too many lame hands.

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Yup, you hit it right on the head!! Being successful in poker has more to do with minimizing your losses than winning huge pots, and loose players make it extremely difficult. It does suck when someone goes in with 5,9 offsuit and you have the best hand BY FAR thru the turn until he fills an inside straight draw on the river. Live play tends to minimize the craziness.

PBurke:
i'll give you that one. but that means drinkng is a sport too. O0

Kajun:
 doh was going to delete and edit my post but you replied too quick lol..here it is...


no offence taken paulie...and i will try to answer your question...

hold'em is just a card game to me but the last few years it has become so popular that its being elevated to the status of a "sport"..ESPN covers it just like any other sport and now there is a "world series of poker".......but it all comes down to an individual's definition of "sport" ...is fishing a sport? is chess a sport? does a sport have to be physical to be considered a sport or can a sport be mental? is sitting in a deer stand and pulling a hair trigger a sport?..theres alot of games and activities out there that have been made into a "sport" ...but again it all comes down to what a person considers to be a "sport".

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