Online poker is full of newbies, but did you know it was full of nudies as well? Well, it's true, at least according to PaddyPowerPoker.com, the poker wing of Irish betting company Paddy Power. Paddy Power Poker just released this interesting tidbit, along with several others, as a prelude to the official publication of its “Poker 2006: The State of Play" report next month. Accordingly, the study found that more than half of surveyed poker players saying that they had played poker in nothing but their drawers or, uh, in nothing at all.

“Poker 2006" also found that the players surveyed like poker a gosh darn lot. And I mean a lot- more than sex, a lot. Astonishingly, a monumental 60 percent of the participants said they would rather play poker than have sex. Along those same lines, about a third of the surveyed players said that, for a million bucks, they would feel compelled to give up their significant others. Poker players really do have a one-track mind.

Apparently, a good number of poker players are ducking out of various personal commitments to shuffle up and deal. Indeed, close to 40 percent of the participants said that they had fibbed for the chance of playing poker.

A particularly odd factoid, about 10 percent of the participants physically hurt themselves mid-play.

If this is any indication of the type of statistics to be released in the final study, I can only imagine what else awaits.

Source:  Poker777 Staff

Saturday, 24 December 2005