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by Blake on February 14th, 2008

I think poker has finally reached its peak. I remember three years ago how it seemed like everybody and their mother played. You could get 50 kids to come to a home game with $50 and lose it. Now it seems like only specialists play. Specialists meaning people who will never fully ‘get over’ the game. People who like to move money.

I’d like to start gambling over another kind of game. I’d like to play Risk or Candyland for cash. For some reason you can’t get dudes to put their money up in those kind of games, because they think there is less “skill” involved. I’d say Risk is about the same amount of luck and skill as poker. That being about 75% luck and 25% strategy. Which makes me wonder why I play the game. I tend to run pretty bad with daily kinds of luck. I should look for something that is more completely strategy involved. Chess. I need to start playing chess again. That game was so much more fulfilling and it wasn’t a matter of someone just walking in off the street and getting lucky.

The point is: all things tend to get old. Why do you think you see the pros on TV, who you think could be entertained enough by the fact that they are on TV, more concerned with the prop bets of what flops come than their actual cards? I wonder if any of those players sit in their hotel rooms alone at night and look at the patterns in the carpet and their rented porn playing and they wish they’d decided to do something else. Probably not. Probably it’s awesome. Most of them don’t even have to play that much these days since being a professional poker player has become more of a TV star kind of gig than a real grinder experience.

I don’t know.

I think poker is most fun when you have a lot of money to burn. When I sell my loft I will have a lot more flow again and will probably start playing more often, if not quite as often as I used to. Funny how I still like watching poker on TV even when I’m not playing that much. I guess that’s something to be said for it, as I can’t imagine ever wanting to see televised Risk. Though, the Candyland channel? I’m on that.

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