I've got to admit I'm hooked on Texas hold'em poker. Not since I was in college have I played so much cards. I've been playing for a few months now but will continue to be a beginner for a long time. It's true what they say about the game - "takes a day to learn, a lifetime to master".
My brother has also been bitten by the bug and regularly catches tournament play on his Chorus multichannel where he's picking up all the lingo - 'off-suit', 'on the button', 'in position'. I'm feeling left out... or at least I was until it occurred to me to do a search in The Venice Project. And luckily for me 'poker' returned an impressive 12 results. A very cool feature of TVP is the facility to save the search results as a channel, which means I now have a steady diet of entertaining viewing only one button away. And in superior TV-like quality too! Which brings me to the case of Clay Shirky versus Mark Cuban.
When reading that argument debate last week I was in two minds about who was right. Shirky makes good points but Cuban bites back hard -
"DO some homework and find out WHEN most internet video is watched. Its not during primetime... Its the same time the majority of internet media has always been consumed. During office hours. DO your homework and ask WHY people buy HDTVs. buy your logic, they would only but HDTVs when their old sets broke. The quality of picture isnt important, so why buy an HD set at all?"
Of course The Venice Project is far from HD but it's of high enough quality that watching 90 minutes of Texas hold'em is a pleasant experience. When you can actually see what cards the players are holding, read the expressions on their faces and follow all the on-screen graphics you realize how pathetic YouTube is in comparison.
By the way, World Poker Tour is now my favorite TVP channel and I'm currently watching Tommy Garza, a Venture Capitalist, whipping his opponents. Is there some correlation between entrepreneurship, venture capital and gambling? ;-)
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