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Poker is a purely American game. Therefore, all poker tournament main events played all over the world should be preceded by the American National Anthem. Poker is just as American as apple pie, baseball, hamburgers, jazz and hotdogs.

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Not sure if you are joking or not, seeing as everything on that list is everything but American in origin.

Playing the national anthem at the WSOP is highly inappropriate. If it was the US Poker Championship then fine, but the WSOP is a world event which is played on US soil due to tradition only.

Should every event at the Olympics be played with the Greek anthem?