Alinea

Wouldn't be necessary in the women's division. Champion is most O's in five minutes, hooked up Masters and Johnson style.

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Heretic

Five minutes? Shouldn't it take longer for things to pick up?

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Alinea

Well women are deceptively discreet when they're turned on...though I suppose a check for white (or wet) lines in the panties could be given prior to the tournaments.

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Lolli

Interesting. Well just staying alive on this earth (not being killed, be it human or animal) is a competition. Interviewing for jobs is competition. Getting that girl's number is a competition.

Not sure you can really put an athlete who has trained his/her whole life vs. a 300lbs who has mastered some computer on the same level and say they're both playing a sport.

DannyBoy

Video Games are highly competitive, especially online these days. As such they have any number of attributes which might make them a Sport. Though why they would promote them as such on a dedicated Sports Channel I cannot appreciate or understand. By all means have a Video Games Channel (wouldn't that kick ass) or something... but...hmm... what was I saying ?.

Dianekkdi

Yay for Popcorn! And yes, CosmicsArtist, I do.

Okie doke:

My very first poker book and an excellent one at that:

7 Card Stud : 42 Lessons How to Win at Medium & Lower Limits by Roy West.

My second and best poker book that I won't loan out to anybody including God: SEVEN CARD STUD THE WAITING GAME by George Percy
This book was out of print for awhile. George Percy died about six years ago or so now. I just found it on the internet. It is a reference book you will keep forever. It's a little green book that is so easy to read and so full of information it's amazing.



I played Stud before Holdem. They're similar but different.

My first Holdem book: Mike Caro Caro's Book of Poker Tells by Mike Caro, Mike Caro's Caro It's a devil-may-care fun book. Useful for both Stud and Holdem.

On Doyle Brunsons SuperSystem: Save your money -- if you must read it, get it from the library. I was lucky enough to have another poker player loan it to me.

Main thing about Holdem:

It's a paint game (10, J, Q, K, A) or suited connectors. Suited connectors are gambling. Concentrate on paint. The flop is the equivalent of fifth street in stud. Make your in or out decision in regards to pot investment then. You want to have (optimally speaking) 2/3 of your hand made at that point.


Aren't you glad you mentioned that?

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Malkavian

I'd rather watch a good deathmatch than a baseball game

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I don't consider what I do a sport.

If only because it doesn't meet the physical requirements. It fits nearly every other description of a sport though.

It's competitive. Requires a skill that has to be learned, developed and fine tuned. Takes teamwork (now).

If you play darts at your local pub, you don't consider it a sport. But it can be taken very seriously and be very competitive. Or it can be just a casual round for fun.

That's how I look at my online gaming. It's like being able to play a game of 8ball but never having to have to leave the house. Sometimes your just playing for a beer, sometimes your playing the guy who's considered the best at the bar.

Most of the stuff they show on TV is a watered down version of what actually happens online. The best players and best teams don't compete in the stuff you see on TV. Most of the online leagues even have a watered down version of games.

Right now BF2 simply can't support a league to play it at its highest level. Finding clans/teams that can field a 32 man team on a regular basis is too hard. So they trim down the league and ladder competitions to smaller groups or eliminate the vehicles. It's not real BF2. The best players and the best experiences can be found night after night on servers all over.

The most competitive play is in PR (Project Reality) a total conversion mod for BF2. My buddies play it, but I have been slacking lately and find its plodding methodical methods for winning rather tiresome. Specifically designed with "reality" in mind, its impossible to make a move or even traverse the environment safely unless teamwork and strategy are involved. If your up against an experienced team of players and you don't what your doing, you can't make a move with out getting head blown off around the next corner, rock or building.

Most of the games they show on TV are glorified console button mashers converted to PC. Real competitive online gamers have moved away from this older and dated subset of the genre. Been there done that.

The internet moves faster then TV, what happens online and in various servers all around the world is much more intense and competitive then anything on TV .

It's sort of like the guy who owns a restaurant watching Rachel Ray. It's interesting but not the real thing.

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