WWF showmanship in poker tourneys
 

Poker tourneys could be made more fun if they used some of the showmanship tactics from the wrestling side.

I for one would love to see Phil Helmuth come dressed in a shower robe while shuffling a deck with two pretty barely-clad girls holding "Glory to Phil" signs. He could walk around and make faces and threats at players like Gus Hansen before resuming his seat. Gus then could flex his muscles and say something to the effect of "I am gonna beat the crap outta ya!" Sammy Farah could come in with the persona of a Mafia boss with two nastly looking mafia hoods in his tow. Annie Duke could come dressed as a superwoman or a catwoman and provide stellar entertainment.

I think even more folks would watch poker and HBO could get away charging $$$ an episode to have the bad boys and bad girls of poker really duke it out in style.....

Just a thought

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phil does kind of remind me of mcmahon in a very scary way

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Phil? If anyone reminded me of him it would be Gus.

He always looks like hes ready to jump outta his seat and smack someone [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Why don't we just take it a step farther and let all the poker pros fight in ladder matches to obtain briefcases full of 100,000 legal chips to be used in the 2005 WSOP? TJ would probably own all.

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Unfortunately, ESPN is making poker tourneys look like the WWE.

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Unfortunately, ESPN is making poker tourneys look like the WWE.

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I think poker player are making poker tourneys look like the WWE.

ESPN doesn't tell the people how to act, they just capture it.

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Why don't we just take it a step farther and let all the poker pros fight in ladder matches to obtain briefcases full of 100,000 legal chips to be used in the 2005 WSOP? TJ would probably own all.

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If only he could climb the ladder the quickest, lol.

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kind of like what they're turning the PBA into (bowling league)...

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It's partly ESPN's fault and partly Harrah's. They don't act like that on the WPT.

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It's partly ESPN's fault and partly Harrah's. They don't act like that on the WPT.

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