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Just a frustrated observation that suddenly religion (and noting that someone is Jewish is a reference to a religion) is being injected into poker discussions. I am not offended or angry or pi**ed off or anything else. I just believe that there is no reason to bring religion into poker. I do not see any relationship between any religion and poker. I have not seen any discussion of Catholic, Unitarian, Shinto (sp) or Hindu players so I am perplexed as to why a players religous background is now a hot topic of discussion.

Besides, just to satisfy my curiosity, would you care to expand on your comment of "there are a lot of good Jewish poker players" with additional information such as: a definition of good, a list of players who are Jewish (and how you know this - just because the last name may be Schwartz or Cohen doesn't count), a analysis of what percentage of good players are Jewish relative to the percentage of Jews in the general population and explain the relationship between being Jewish and being a good poker player.

Ansky, while I respect your posts in the MTT forum and your hand analysis ability, I don't understand what the above post is trying to prove and I don't believe how much time I am spending getting involved in these discussions.