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#32
03-20-2006, 12:25 PM
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Re: NY Post claims: Poker has Jumped the Shark
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[ QUOTE ] I just wonder if the casinos will be the last ones standing when the best of the best get raked to death. [/ QUOTE ] Where did you come from? [/ QUOTE ] the aquarium. Barron 
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#34
03-20-2006, 12:52 PM
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Re: NY Post claims: Poker has Jumped the Shark
anyone else noticed how much not-poker crap they show now on all the shows? you're lucky to see 2 hands between commercials and some lame behind the scenes with a nobody who luckboxed their way to the final table. and...WHY ARE THEY STILL TEACHING YOU HOW TO PLAY WHEN THE SHOW STARTS? maybe they have commercialized their way into making the poker shows suck.
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#35
03-20-2006, 01:17 PM
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Re: NY Post claims: Poker has Jumped the Shark
Explaining the basic rules quickly -- especially when most people grew up with some knowledge of either draw or stud poker, but not hold 'em -- isn't so bad, especially when you consider theoretically every show is someone's first time ever watching poker. If they can get the rules, it might make them more likely to stick with the game.
Which is what we all want.
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#36
03-20-2006, 01:26 PM
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Re: NY Post claims: Poker has Jumped the Shark
I can't help but think people were probably saying that the NFL had jumped the shark around Superbowl IV (if they had had the expression back then). Or how about Hollywood? It jumped the shark around 1979 and movies have been dismal ever since, yet the film industry seems to be getting by... Oh, and neither of these mega-industries seems to worry about "selling out" to Pepsi and the rest of corporate America... in fact quite the opposite. There is nothing underground about either.
Poker isn't grunge music, or hula hoops, or pet rocks. It's much "stickier". Once you get into it you get more and more hooked, not bored. I think we're trained to believe that things come and go in "fads", with set rises, peaks and declines in popularity... but many things buck this trend and "stick" (pro sports, Hollywood, religion, etc. etc. etc.) and I think poker has more in common with these things and the same chance of staying relevant for decades to come.
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#37
03-20-2006, 05:16 PM
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Re: NY Post claims: Poker has Jumped the Shark
Poker has been around longer than football or hollywood.
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#38
03-21-2006, 12:06 AM
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Re: NY Post claims: Poker has Jumped the Shark
sorry, that was a bit of an overstatement. The point I was trying to make is that if all the bad players quit and not many new players fill in, more money will be traded back and forth between top players.
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#39
03-23-2006, 04:39 PM
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[ QUOTE ] When all the movie stars move on to something else I'll be a little more worried. [/ QUOTE ] I highly doubt Hollywood is knocking down Jennifer Tilly's door with scripts [/ QUOTE ] I'm totally sure that Hollywood sucks.
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#40
03-23-2006, 08:56 PM
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especially when you consider theoretically every show is someone's first time ever watching poker. [/ QUOTE ] The same thing is true of all sports, but I don't see them explaining the rules in every televised football game or boxing match. Hold'em is no more difficult to figure out than any other sport. Watch a few hands and you'll soon pick up the way that it's played.
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