The World Heads Up
by Simon Dexter Wednesday, February 1st, 2006If there is one direct, but often overlooked, benefit of poker’s relentless boom, it is that poker tournaments are no longer held in questionable out-of-the-way locations from which you feel happy to have escaped with your life, never mind your bankroll. Nowadays, if you’re hosting a poker tournament, why stage it in Hicksville-on-the-Marsh when more glamorous locations are falling over themselves to accommodate players, their wives and girlfriends and, more often than not, the television cameras? Or you could of course play poker online; so you can enjoy a poker game without even having to leave the house!
