When police begin to go after people playing low-stakes poker in VFW posts you know something’s going crazy. It’s apparently illegal in Texas for the house to make money off of a poker game, even if the money is being used for a charity. Keep in mind that it’s not illegal for the state of Texas to take a cut of lottery proceeds. Hmmm, something doesn’t seem too consistent about this.

Poker, the game played by Mark Twain, George Bush, members of the Supreme Court, is apparently destroying the fabric of this great nation. Watch the video and see for yourself the problems that cops face viz a viz people who play poker in “illegal” gambling rooms. Drew Carey does a nice job narrating.

Here at PokerMoments, we sometimes share videos of poker games.  There are also televised games with both famous players and famously-great players playing.  This got me to thinking…

Do professional players ever watch these tapes after the game is over, not only to analyze their own play, but more importantly, to peek into how other players play?  As everyone’s cards are shown to the audience during play, I wondered if they could look back afterwards to find clues to how other players play… what they do with poor hands? when do they bluff? any tells that come out with great hands?

This could be a new strategy, giving them an extra edge into their competition’s play.

So what are your thoughts?  Would this give them an edge?  You televised players out there… have you ever done this?

If you try this, sshhhhhhhhh… I won’t tell.  Well, as long as you give me my 50% kickback!

I can understand peoples’ fascination with celebrities. I ocassionally like to check out a little PopCrunch. But what’s with watching this celebrity poker? These people don’t know what they’re doing. It’s so painful to watch. It’s almost as painful to watch as it is to listen to celebrities pontificating about politics. You hear me, Ms. Steisand and Mr. Penn. The pain. The pain. I hope there is some way to cope with the pain.

Are people (women) so starving for celebrity gossip that they’re willing to watch these poker neophytes talk utter unfunny nonsense while they show their utter lack of talent for poker? No one who is any good at poker can watch this stuff. But I’m sure anyone who is any good at poker would love to play with these celebrity fish.

Enough kvetching. Back to reading about Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton and American Idol gossip on Popcrunch.