Imagine if you turned on tv tonight just in time to catch the top ten on sportscenter. Filled with spectacular dunks from Blake Griffin and Paul Pierce, sweet soccer finishes and as the #1 play of the night an unconscionable bluff to win the title as best Poker player in the world.
In the world today, popular culture's interest is derived from exclusivity and status. It is everywhere around us and undeniable, whether it is the new cellphone, popular threads or facebook's new IPO, exclusivity drives popular interest. In golf in order to be a member of the PGA, you need an elite tour card. For football you must be selected to be rostered by one of the thirty-two teams who are privileged enough to wear the NFL Logo. Flying under the radar there has been a significant forum that has been left unstructured. A game that is probably more profitable than any other enterprise in the world today.
The Game is poker, I know your first impression is that poker is not a sport. Well I retort, if at the highest level of a sport is predominantly mental then there is no greater mind game then that of the round felt table.
Annie Duke, sister of renown Professional Poker Player Howard Lederer has made a name for herself not only as a women in a male dominated game but now as a pioneer joining together with John Pollack, (a former executive for NASCAR and the NBA) to form a professional poker league. The new Professional Poker league will consist of around 200 players that will be based on a mathematic formula measuring finishes in major events, money earned and recent success.
Now for a first time Poker will actually have a system for ranking the worlds best. A way to separate skill from luck and show who really is the Best Poker Player in the world. Texas Hold 'em is played across the world and each year will be like a World Cup of Poker. I personally think this is pretty cool and am really interested to see what will come of this league and if it will actually catch on to the mainstream media.
As for my predictions, I will put them on hold because my world was rocked. All I got to say is go NFC, and I'm in shock by how terrible that game was. I will admit the Jets played well but they used the defensive game plan they should have used the last time we played them, so we could have better adapted for it in the playoffs. The Pats had not played from behind and won all season and that lack of resilience and minimal mental toughness was disturbing to witness.
While this sucked hard, my fanship has been rocked many a times in the last 5 almost 6 years. So on the brighter side, this was a good stepping stone for a young defense who played pretty well granted the field position that was left to them. We have a lot of draft picks who knows if we'll use them this year or not but this I know for sure for a "re-building year" it wasn't that bad. Maybe now Tom Brady will show up for summer work outs??
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