Poker has many advantages over athletics: If players are competing in a national event they are not obliged to wear streamlined underwear, hum their country’s anthem or have embarrassing cock-ups dissected by a savage media. Moreover, drugs tend to be performance reducing: Any chemical enhancement usually happens after the event for those euphoric male players who need to celebrate victory with a capital V.
So it is in a state of unalloyed bliss that Eyebrows brings news of the Olympic Hold ‘em Series 2008, which is currently taking place at the Olympic Casino, Vilnius, Lithuania. At 6pm today some of the game’s finest competitors, whose training rituals we can only guess at, will sit down and try to outperform their rivals in the €750 main event. Forty-eight hours later we will see a true titan of poker. There may not be blood but there will almost certainly be sweat.
So it is in a state of unalloyed bliss that Eyebrows brings news of the Olympic Hold ‘em Series 2008, which is currently taking place at the Olympic Casino, Vilnius, Lithuania. At 6pm today some of the game’s finest competitors, whose training rituals we can only guess at, will sit down and try to outperform their rivals in the €750 main event. Forty-eight hours later we will see a true titan of poker. There may not be blood but there will almost certainly be sweat.
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