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Old 10-03-2004, 08:00 PM
PokerNeal PokerNeal is offline
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Default WWF showmanship in poker tourneys

Poker tourneys could be made more fun if they used some of the showmanship tactics from the wrestling side.

I for one would love to see Phil Helmuth come dressed in a shower robe while shuffling a deck with two pretty barely-clad girls holding "Glory to Phil" signs. He could walk around and make faces and threats at players like Gus Hansen before resuming his seat. Gus then could flex his muscles and say something to the effect of "I am gonna beat the crap outta ya!" Sammy Farah could come in with the persona of a Mafia boss with two nastly looking mafia hoods in his tow. Annie Duke could come dressed as a superwoman or a catwoman and provide stellar entertainment.

I think even more folks would watch poker and HBO could get away charging $$$ an episode to have the bad boys and bad girls of poker really duke it out in style.....

Just a thought
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Old 10-03-2004, 08:02 PM
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Default Re: WWF showmanship in poker tourneys

phil does kind of remind me of mcmahon in a very scary way
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Old 10-03-2004, 08:05 PM
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Default Re: WWF showmanship in poker tourneys

Phil? If anyone reminded me of him it would be Gus.

He always looks like hes ready to jump outta his seat and smack someone [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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Old 10-03-2004, 09:48 PM
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Default Re: WWF showmanship in poker tourneys

Why don't we just take it a step farther and let all the poker pros fight in ladder matches to obtain briefcases full of 100,000 legal chips to be used in the 2005 WSOP? TJ would probably own all.
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Old 10-05-2004, 03:36 PM
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Default Re: WWF showmanship in poker tourneys

Unfortunately, ESPN is making poker tourneys look like the WWE.
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Old 10-05-2004, 04:29 PM
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Default Re: WWF showmanship in poker tourneys

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Unfortunately, ESPN is making poker tourneys look like the WWE.

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I think poker player are making poker tourneys look like the WWE.

ESPN doesn't tell the people how to act, they just capture it.
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Old 10-05-2004, 04:38 PM
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Default Re: WWF showmanship in poker tourneys

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Why don't we just take it a step farther and let all the poker pros fight in ladder matches to obtain briefcases full of 100,000 legal chips to be used in the 2005 WSOP? TJ would probably own all.

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If only he could climb the ladder the quickest, lol.
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Old 10-05-2004, 04:40 PM
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Default Re: WWF showmanship in poker tourneys

kind of like what they're turning the PBA into (bowling league)...
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Old 10-05-2004, 07:30 PM
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It's partly ESPN's fault and partly Harrah's. They don't act like that on the WPT.
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Old 10-05-2004, 09:30 PM
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It's partly ESPN's fault and partly Harrah's. They don't act like that on the WPT.

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Unibomber?
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