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KaneKungFu123
11-14-2005, 12:30 PM
were the games big in casinos before the internet? seems like there are so many top internet pros, especially from scandinavia, curious where they played practiced previously.

also why dont i ever see players from italy, spain, france it all seems to be concentrated in sweedem, finland, and the other scandinavian countries.

fnord_too
11-14-2005, 01:28 PM
Possible reason:

It's cold and nasty a lot in the Scandinavian countries and warm and sunny a lot in the southern European countries.

gulebjorn
11-14-2005, 02:06 PM
I live in Belgium. There is not one legal poker game in the country.

11-14-2005, 02:17 PM
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also why dont i ever see players from italy, spain, france it all seems to be concentrated in sweeden, finland, and the other scandinavian countries.

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Not entirely true - there's that French lass who occassionally plays in the WSOP (Marie summat) and there were a few Spanish and Italian and French players at the HU tourney that was televised a few months ago. I guess it depends where you play and where you watch - scandanavians tend (in my experience) to speak better english (or american) than other Europeans.

JMa
11-14-2005, 03:19 PM
Internet / broadband is alot more common in swedish homes than in say italian homes, especially on the country side.

Olof
11-14-2005, 03:29 PM
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Not entirely true - there's that French lass who occassionally plays in the WSOP (Marie summat) and there were a few Spanish and Italian and French players at the HU tourney that was televised a few months ago. I guess it depends where you play and where you watch - scandanavians tend (in my experience) to speak better english (or american) than other Europeans.

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David Benyamine (sp?) is from France as well.

adsman
11-14-2005, 03:29 PM
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Internet / broadband is alot more common in swedish homes than in say italian homes, especially on the country side.

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Or more importantly that there are over 80 card games that are illegal in Italy,(dating back to Mussolini), poker being among them.

11-14-2005, 03:34 PM
Arnfinn Madsen posts on 2+2. He's from Norway and I think he travels in his job. Look around and ask him.

daryn
11-14-2005, 11:50 PM
also poker is illegal in italy