A great day for the sport.

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

The difference is that in other sports people can watch the games and not have even the slightest clue and still enjoy them. People may have played these sports as kids and have a basic understanding even though they are still pretty clueless. In horse racing that just doesn't work plus for the gambling aspect to work you have to have rudimentary math skills and American kids arent exactly been mathmatic aces lately. It is far easier to bet sports as anyone can understand point spreads and over/unders.

The math you need to do in Poker is a lot more difficult -- and so many of the top players are very young.