Politically Incorrect WSOP Post

[maurile]

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Christian, American, White, Males. Surely well more than half the starting field fit this criteria. Of the final 27 I count five or so.

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Here are the final 27 players: link.

I count 11 American white males. I have no idea who's Jewish (or otherwise non-Christian).

[KingMarc]

Out of sheer curiosity...what semi-well known to well known poker players are Jewish?

[micacka]

Well, you might start at 'Greenstein'.

[spamuell]

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Out of sheer curiosity...what semi-well known to well known poker players are Jewish?

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I think Matusow is but I might be wrong.

[dragon14]

Greenstein, Bloch, Matusow, Ungar, Oppenheim, Berman, Lederer, Duke, Sklansky, Malmuth, Seidel, Elerza, Russell Rosenbloom, poker writers Peter Alson, Andy Glazer, and Michael Konik.

Something to consider is that Jews are affiliated with the gambling industry to a much greater degree than the majority of the population. Many major strip casinos started out as Jewish owned. Party Poker is largely Jewish owned. The major figure to be arrested for offshore sports book wagering was Jewish. A large percentage of gambling writers are Jewish as well. And finally when writing a paper for gambling addiction I came across a statistic that gambler's anonymous of Philadelphia had a mix of nearly 50/50 between Jews and Catholics.

Sklansky states that the biggest games consist of foreigners, women, blacks, and Jews. While I believe that Jews and Asians are overrepresented in big games, I certainly don't believe that blacks and women are represented at their numbers in the population as gamblers in the biggest games. Of course he only wishes to be politically incorrect when attacking the only group one can get away with attacking in America (non-Jewish white males).

Does Sklansky think that women buy 50% of all copies sold of Theory of Poker. Does he think that blacks purchase 13% of all copies sold of SSHE? Is he willing to state that that's because they refuse to learn from others?

There are far more blacks and hispanics then jews in the population yet I can't think of a single gambling author that is either black or hispanic. Are these groups uninterested in learning as well or is just the white christians?

[drudman]

Am I going to be the first to point out that the whole demographical analysis is flawed anyways because of class differences? The wealth and time necessary to become a serious player is unevenly distributed across demographics, obviously.

[RacersEdge]

So the premise is that Christians are closed-minded relative to learning from others? So what makes Jewish people open to learning - I mean they aren't open to becoming a Christian or a Muslim right?

[Ulysses]

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So the premise is that Christians are closed-minded relative to learning from others? So what makes Jewish people open to learning - I mean they aren't open to becoming a Christian or a Muslim right?

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I think Sklansky's main point here is that the Jews really love money.

[KingMarc]

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Greenstein, Bloch, Matusow, Ungar, Oppenheim, Berman, Lederer, Duke, Sklansky, Malmuth, Seidel, Elerza, Russell Rosenbloom, poker writers Peter Alson, Andy Glazer, and Michael Konik.



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The Mizrachi's are also Jewish so they can be added to the 'list'.

And Sklansky is Jewish? I think I've totally missed something with that one...

[Michael Emery]

You can tell this post was started by a Jew, without even knowing hes Jewish.

Mike Emery