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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.