[USGrant]

I think an overwhelming majority of people in the corporate world have not caught on to the "poker craze" and don't watch or care about televised tourneys. As poker players who play and watch the game, we probably overestimate just how much the game has gone mainstream. It definitely is fad-ish (I walked into a KMart yesterday and saw a promotional display selling those cheap, flimsy Hold Em sets in a metal lunch box-looking thing), but that doesn't mean that 98% of hiring managers for companies haven't maintained the deeply ingrained image of pro poker players as kind of seedy, balding, Sateen jogging suit-wearing men in their 50's with serious compulsive gambling issues -- that's if they had ever heard of the concept of a pro poker player to begin with. Let's face it, poker players are gamblers and everyone is nervous about dealing with gamblers.