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Why Play Texas Hold 'em? by: Guy Downs Ah, yes'”the Texas hold '˜em explosion. Seven years ago, when I first started playing, the Texas hold '˜em community was comprised almost entirely of the collection of retirees who haunted the local 1-4-8-8 games, a sprinkling of mild mannered pros who played for a living, and a healthy percentage of truly degenerate gamblers who would now and then stagger into the card room after a blistering run at the craps table. There were no internet games. There were no Jay-Cee charity tournaments. And there was certainly no poker on television. Although the games were typically full you didn't hear much about poker away from the casino, and whenever you left the card room you got the feeling that you were probably at least a par five away from anyone who knew that '˜Big Slick' didn't refer to the Valdez oil spill. But that was then. As we sit here today, in the Year of our Lord '2004
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