Hopefully We Won’t Have As Much Poker On TV

I don’t play cards. I know a lot of people who do.

Some people like chess, others get into RPGs or crossword puzzles.

I don’t gamble. It’s simple, I don’t have enough money for it to be fun. I can lose $20 on a night of nickel slots, but that’s about my limit.

I understand there is skill. I understand there is strategy, big balls and silly sunglasses.

Watching people play cards is boring as f**k. Plain and simple.

We’ve been subjected to years of poker tournaments on ESPN. I see it and instantly change the channel.

After the big three poker sites, Poker Stars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker, got shut down by the FBI, ESPN was one of the first companies that people thought of an accomplice.

ESPN advertised these websites often. How many times were you barely watching SportsCenter, half-awake at 3am, hearing the Poker Stars commercial in your ear?

Now we come to find out it was all illegal. There are going to be a lot of full time poker players looking for work in the very near future.

I wonder if they will qualify for unemployment?

So what will ESPN do? They need to pull it all, if not for PR reasons, then do it because it sucks.

Brilliant. I needed some good news today. Thanks, ESPN.

The only time I’ve ever enjoyed watching poker on TV is when they were getting robbed.