JacKingOff_suit 0 Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 Poker is about taking everyone's last penny on the table, even your mom's. There's no teamwork or cooperation in the true nature of poker, and if it exists it's cheating.I don't think it will ever make it to Olympic althought I've heard discussions about it on different forums from time to time.I could be wrong. Discuss. Link to post Share on other sites
Fanatikk 0 Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 Poker is about taking everyone's last penny on the table, even your mom's. There's no teamwork or cooperation in the true nature of poker, and if it exists it's cheating.I don't think it will ever make it to Olympic althought I've heard discussions about it on different forums from time to time.I could be wrong. Discuss.Poker morality at it's best. My goal is to win everyone's money, regardless of whether it hurts their families or lives. Heck, I'll even take my own mothers money. But what I won't do is work with a friend to win the money, because that is absulutely wrong!!!I actually agree with you, but it's just funny how the thought process works sometimes.Poker should not be in the olympics! Link to post Share on other sites
LadyGrey 6 Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 Yeah poker at the olympics doesn't make sense to me. I'm more interested in poker playing skill, not patriotism. Link to post Share on other sites
chrozzo 19 Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 Olympic Poker is just about the stupidest thing i've ever heard. The olympics are about athleticism, not card games. If they allow poker, whats next?....blackjack? scrabble? I hope not. Link to post Share on other sites
LadyGrey 6 Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 Olympic Poker is just about the stupidest thing i've ever heard. The olympics are about athleticism, not card games. If they allow poker, whats next?....blackjack? scrabble? I hope not.Olympic Poker does sound stupid to me, but I gotta say that I find televised poker a hell of a lot more entertaining than televised sport. Maybe a Poker Olympics would be less absurd, with a winner for each type of poker played. Link to post Share on other sites
myenemy 0 Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 Olympic Poker would be amazing. Think of the possibilities. Players wearing patriotic tights at the tables for one! Link to post Share on other sites
Sluggo 0 Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 Look at bicycle racing. Critics said the same thing for years, but now there are teams to sanction the "cheating" instead of ignoring it. Team strategy is a large part of many international races. Link to post Share on other sites
The Nuts 0 Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 Look at bicycle racing. Critics said the same thing for years, but now there are teams to sanction the "cheating" instead of ignoring it. Team strategy is a large part of many international races.Well, those games (like the team track relays) are geared to be team competitions. Poker is meant to be an individual competition. I'm sure that pro players are friends with each other away from the tables. But when they play in a heads up pot, friendships don't change the fact that each player wants to win.Even though a team can aid another biker, in the end they're both racing for the first prize. When it comes down to friend vs. friend or teammate vs. teammate, there are no friends. Only opponents. Link to post Share on other sites
mosley 0 Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 good luck finding any poker competitors who have never earned any money in their "sport".maybe the free money tables on Party would become the new training grounds for amateur supremacy. Link to post Share on other sites
blueodum 0 Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 The Olympics have allowed professionals since 1992. Link to post Share on other sites
devhdcdevhdc 0 Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 Poker is about taking everyone's last penny on the table, even your mom's. There's no teamwork or cooperation in the true nature of poker, and if it exists it's cheating.I don't think it will ever make it to Olympic althought I've heard discussions about it on different forums from time to time.I could be wrong. Discuss.Teampoker is starting to come thru big here in Sweden, mainly cause a Swede came up with the concept, and we recently had a tournament for teampoker in a state owned casino where the first prize for a winning team was ~$30,000.I'm not 100% clear of the rules, but this I do know:Each team must consist of 4 players, no team can have more then 1 teammember at 1 table.Teams are allowed 2 timeout's during each level of a tournament to discuss situations that they're in (which basically means that you can do a timeout mid-hand) like whether they should call an all-in or not.Say that 3 teammembers is well off in a tournament and has deep stacks, while the fourth is in real trouble, the team can then decide whether or not they want to donate up to 30% (1:3:rd) of their stack-depth to that teammember, this can only be done with chips that are winnings though. so say they start wit 10,000 and have 13,000, a maximum of 1,000 can then be transferred.On a final-table the team itself decided which player plays it, so say Martin makes the final-table and the others dont, the team may then decide to let Mike play instead with the argument that the LAG-type of play on the table fits him better (based on experience from the opponents ofcourse).So, to me teampoker seems rather fun, and im trying to start a team where I live. Link to post Share on other sites
FullMontyM1 0 Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Clearly, if team poker becomes an olympic event, we'll need to start laying odds on who will be the first gold-medal winner to hock his medal when he runs bad.How much would one of those be worth? Link to post Share on other sites
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