Dr. Phil today

[quinn]

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No records you have no chance.

Curious why no questions like How many tourneys have you won, or placed in the money. I probaly has never read a book.

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FYP

[gobboboy]

The real question for us is "how much have we made off this guy?"

I'm not a smoker but my point was when the media jumps on a story positive things never happen. Anytime some moron goes on TV and portrays something I enjoy doing in a negative light, I cringe. Poker is a media darling today, but it won't be long before your local "Action" news station is doing an in depth expose' at your local high school where malnourished kids are playing no-limit freeze outs with their lunch money and they will demand something is done. This is how personal freedoms are taken away in our country. Of course Jerry Springer is still on TV and they have yet to outlaw trailer parks, so maybe i'm way off base. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Moneyline]

Wow, that guy's wife is a total bitch. Not since Matt Damon split up with Gretchen Mol in Rounders has a poker player needed to break up with his woman so badly.

[MonkeeMan]

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I think the gaming industry might have a little bit more $$$ for lobbyists and political contributions than the lawn dart industry did.

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Those cheap lawn dart b*'s did nothing but take, take, take. No concern for their loyal users.

[TransientR]

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I'm not a smoker but my point was when the media jumps on a story positive things never happen. Anytime some moron goes on TV and portrays something I enjoy doing in a negative light, I cringe. Poker is a media darling today, but it won't be long before your local "Action" news station is doing an in depth expose' at your local high school where malnourished kids are playing no-limit freeze outs with their lunch money and they will demand something is done. This is how personal freedoms are taken away in our country. Of course Jerry Springer is still on TV and they have yet to outlaw trailer parks, so maybe i'm way off base. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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I've been worrying about this re. online poker myself. The cable news people and the Dr. Phil's of this world are always looking for something to agitate the public with "the sky is falling" rhetoric. This in turn gets opportunistic politicians (is there any other kind?) involved.

And, of course, the easiest way to demonize something is to say: "Its ruining our precious children." Look at the Natalee Holloway case. Poor woman goes missing in Aruba and the Alabama politicians start agitating about legislating a boycott of Aruba...give me a break.

Plus there is the ignorance factor. These TV fatheads and politicians will lump poker in with any other "you can't beat the house" gambling games. And the hypocritical ones will rant-and-rave on TV or the floor of the senate and go right home and play online or with their cronies.

I saw Bob Costas on his HBO show the other day, he basically dismissed poker as a total waste of time, and virtually declared everyone who plays the game 'degenerates.'

Of course he creams over baseball players, some of whom stick needles loaded with steroids in each other's butts [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Maybe if the heat comes down on poker, Mr. Uber Republican "Book of Virtues" Bob Bennett will come to the games' defense. After all, hawking 'virtue' pays his bills, while spending hours gambling in casinos is what really floats his boat [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Frank

[Roy Munson]

Hell, I still play lawn darts.

[AlphaWice]

Quoted directly from their site (drphil.com)

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Springer estimates that he's used between $15,000 and $20,000 of their savings to finance his poker playing. "I'm working on being a professional poker player. Poker is not gambling," he says.

Jennell estimates that Springer has spent $100,000 from their savings, and they have $50,000 in credit card debt.

"Does this concern you at all?" Dr. Phil asks Springer.

"It does concern me," he replies, but he disputes her numbers. When Springer says that his plan was for poker playing to sustain them financially, Dr. Phil questions, "You say that poker's not gambling?"

"I don't think poker is gambling when it's approached the correct way," Springer maintains.

"It apparently isn't gambling the way you do it because you're just paying out money!" Dr. Phil observes.
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Lol he spent 150k and still doesnt know how to play poker

[JTrout]

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Hell, I still play lawn darts.

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Does your artificial hand ever fly off?