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#31
09-18-2005, 03:08 PM
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Re: American national anthem at WSOP main event???
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It seems incredibly inappropriate for a supposedly international event [/ QUOTE ] WFT? If you come here to play, you should be mature enough to listen to "our" anthem. If I went to anouther country to play cards I would sit and listen, not get upset. I can't tell if you are joking about this or not. pisses me off either way. How do you block people on here? 
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#32
09-18-2005, 03:16 PM
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Re: American national anthem at WSOP main event???
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[ QUOTE ] It seems incredibly inappropriate for a supposedly international event [/ QUOTE ] WFT? If you come here to play, you should be mature enough to listen to "our" anthem. If I went to anouther country to play cards I would sit and listen, not get upset. I can't tell if you are joking about this or not. pisses me off either way. How do you block people on here? [/ QUOTE ] found this: Summary 1970 was the first year that the World Series of Poker was held. Unlike the WSOP events which followed it which are decided using a freeze-out tournament, the 1970 champion was decided by voting. Jack Binion invited the best seven poker players in America to his casino in Las Vegas to decide whom Americas best poker player was. Johnny Moss was voted the best in the world So Poker, hambergers, baseball and whatever else might not be american, but the WSOP is.
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#33
09-18-2005, 04:15 PM
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Re: American national anthem at WSOP main event???
Now I remember.
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#34
09-18-2005, 05:03 PM
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Re: Poker is an American game
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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. [/ QUOTE ] Hee. Good one.
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#35
09-18-2005, 06:31 PM
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Re: American national anthem at WSOP main event???
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[ QUOTE ] It seems incredibly inappropriate for a supposedly international event (World != America) whatever country it's held in. And how did non-US participants react? [/ QUOTE ] Why not? Baseball and basketball are both very international and they both have the national anthem. I don't recall anyone reacting in any way. [/ QUOTE ]Carlos Delgado does not participate in the seventh inning stretch "God Bless America" festivities. I'm sure he's not the only professional athlete that does not take part in such activites.
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#36
09-18-2005, 07:39 PM
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Re: American national anthem at WSOP main event???
Very well--he didn't want to and found a way around.
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#37
09-18-2005, 09:52 PM
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Re: American national anthem at WSOP main event???
Quick clarification:
The National Anthem was also sung before Flight 2 of Day 1 by Carolyn Gardner, the 1983 Women's Poker Champion. It was ear-splitting. Awful, awful, awful.
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#38
09-18-2005, 10:19 PM
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\"World Series\" means something else in the US
they're just self-centered enough to call they're national leagues and tournaments "world series" and the champions of their national championships "world champions".
So what should be troubling you is not the national anthem on a international event, the problem is that they call a national event "world series".
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#39
09-19-2005, 01:20 AM
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Re: \"World Series\" means something else in the US
"wearing my OBL mask, burning the Stars and Stripes"
Someone does that Masquarde, and the phrase, "bad beat" will take on a whole new meaning. +EV because American players would tilt? There would be no +EV if the offender were not physically able to play.
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#40
09-19-2005, 10:18 AM
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Re: \"World Series\" means something else in the US
Line of the day, LMAO.
[ QUOTE ] Someone does that Masquarde, and the phrase, "bad beat" will take on a whole new meaning. [/ QUOTE ] To the OP, you remind me of all the politically correct punks in this country. God forbid we show intolerance by playing our National Anthem in our country. Why don't you show a little tolerance and respect the customs of the host country?
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