best pound for pound nation of poker players in the world? - Page 2

wisehandpoker · #11 08-31-2007, 11:31 AM

If OP means per capita, it's got to be Sweden or Finland, probably Sweden.

dwf76 · #12 08-31-2007, 11:43 AM

All the Scandanavian countries seem to be up there, but can someone explain what makes them better.

ra]\\[dom · #13 08-31-2007, 11:49 AM

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Would you go outside your place if there were polar bears etc running around your igloo? I didn't think so. They got all the time to play with the computers and therefore on their poker game, at least those that are not hunters.

ActionStan · #14 08-31-2007, 11:56 AM

If your name is Nguyen, Pham, Phan or Le they give you a stake to play triple draw at birth and a bracelet when you turn 12. Add to that they are wiry little bastards. Scandi's still have some work to do.

MortalWombat · #15 08-31-2007, 11:57 AM

I'd have to go with Vatican City. Its population is less than 1000, and the Pope can see right into your soul, so that's a pretty high percentage just right there.

augie_ · #16 08-31-2007, 12:01 PM

silly question that nobody is really qualified to answer. the answer is probably america, though.

grando · #17 08-31-2007, 12:02 PM

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I guess it's that, when you look for a table online, you're looking for crazy scandanavians to play against

wait, isn't that the opposite?!?

rafiki · #18 08-31-2007, 12:07 PM

hey Canada ain't bad ! We have 27M people, and the ones I know off the top of my head:

Negraneau, Brad Booth, Gavin Smith, Marc Karam...

on the girl side Evelyn Ng, Isabelle Mercier. We pretend that Tilly isn't from here, but she is, lol.

Poker_is_Hard · #19 08-31-2007, 12:07 PM

What percentage of a country's population are winning poker players?

Of course there is no way to know for sure, but I believe the US would have the highest percentage of winning players, ginding a living on-line, in CA, NV, and AC.

There are more poker players in the US than any other country. Just look at what happend to Party when it stopped taking US players. Also, I see alot of people whining that they can't get on Party b/c its like free money.... funny, this site is only players outside of the US.

SkinnyLittleTwig · #20 08-31-2007, 12:14 PM

party is still soft

finland wins this because they're all boring nits who take all games dead seriously.