Nice post.  I share many of your sentiments.  The "clubyness" of poker is
something that I've always enjoyed, the shared feeling you have with
another aficianado.  Now it's mainstreamed and the vulgarians have
arrived.  They've been playing online for a year and now consider
themselves the hip, cool ones even though they look like clones and moo
like a herd of love sick bovines over their favorite "name" players.  It's
good for the game but lousy for the atmosphere.

Howard Beale

"I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"

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