I was thinking recently about how poker becoming televised has affected the game. I don’t mean the community at large. Obviously that has changed a great deal. I never even knew of a professional poker circuit before ESPN started making a big deal out of the world series. The number of players and spectators is astronomical compared to when there used to be only 100 players.

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In this post I will relate the card table demeanor of the shat man himself. I think this picture is a pretty good encapsulation of it…

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Hello everybody. As this is my first post, I am going to introduce myself to you all by regailing you with a story that I always tell when the conversation turns to either poker or Star Trek.

 ”Star Trek? what does poker have to do with start trek?” you say

“I’m glad you asked” I reply, “Let me tell you”

 It’s the early 90’s. I am far too young to care much about poker or gambling yet. However, as I was quite a little nerd, I loved star trek. My Mom, who played poker for a living at that time, was playing in the poker room at the Trump Taj Majal in Atlantic City. She was doing fairly well getting herself ready for a tournament later that weekend. The place was not very crowded when suddenly a bit of a crowd began to form by the door. Being the very intense and focused type (which added quite a lot to her success as a card player) she hardly noticed. But, as the crowd parted, a small cadre of people could be seen coming through. leading the pack was none other than… (more…)