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Re:John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD sourc... by anyfoo on Monday May 18, 2020 @03:48PM (#23227490)
Why not Poker? As someone who feels similarly, Poker is fun because you play against other people, rather than just statistics.
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Re:John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD sourc... by chrisco255 on Monday May 18, 2020 @04:04PM (#23227688)
In 1998, not very many casinos ran poker rooms. It didn't start to boom as a game until after the WSOP on ESPN and online poker in the early 00s.
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Re:John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD sourc... by Scottn1 on Monday May 18, 2020 @04:38PM (#23228050)
If you would have said not many poker rooms ran No-Limit Hold'em in 1998, you would have been right. But poker rooms and poker (limit Hold'em and 7-card Stud) were easily accessible in casinos in 1998. At least in Las Vegas it was. No-Limit Hold'em is what took off in early 2000 with TV/WSOP popularity and quickly became basically the only game in town by mid 2000's.
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