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It's been all over the internet for a few months, and now it's all over the TV in various forms.
I know you can win cash prizes and so on, blah blah ad infinitum. But people have been winning (and losing) fortunes in poker games for decades, if not centuries.
It's not a new game by any stretch of the imagination, so why are we suddenly seeing it everywhere?
RoJ wrote:
> Because people are fickle. Take cricket, no-one cares until England
> do well and then "OMG NICE ONE LADS". If they lose next
> year we'll never hear about it.
Not entirely true. Due to the nature of the game, it's just not appealing nor fun to watch if one side are 400 without loss, while having smashed the other team for a low figure. It's because most of these matches in this series were close, topsy turvy ones that maintained audience appeal. Though of course there are the bootlickers who just go with the crowd because the back page of The Sun made them "patriotic".
Pretty simple really.
You big fat loser.
It is an exciting/fun game.
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Only in real life. You lose a lot with the online version.
> Only in real life. You lose a lot with the online version.
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Yeah, I only play for fake money online.. and thats only when im bored. But I dont lose lots. Also, thats not to say you dont lose lots of money in live play, its just the same... but playing live (with mates or in tourneys) is the best.
> Only in real life. You lose a lot with the online version.
Well... Friend of mine is $1000 up over about three months, so you have to be good.
> I don't think people are fickle
I think you just lost all credibility.