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Bookmaker has eyes on strip-poker record
Reuters ^
| May 15, 2006
Posted on 05/15/2006 12:20:38 PM PDT by kingattax
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland will play host to the world's biggest ever strip poker contest if bookmaker Paddy Power gets its way.
The idea was originally floated as an April Fool's joke but generated so much interest that Dublin-based Paddy Power has decided to look seriously at organising a contest it hopes will find a place in the Guinness Book of Records.
"We got almost 100 requests to take part," the company's spokesman, also called Paddy Power, said. "We're trying to investigate whether it's possible or whether we'll get put in prison for it."
Poker has become big business in recent years thanks to televised competitions promising big cash prizes and gaming companies such as Paddy Power offering on-line tournaments.
A spokesman for Guinness World Records confirmed that its research unit was looking into what would be a new category for the organisation: "We're considering their claim and we'll get back to the organisers shortly."
Power said the company, which often grabs headlines with contentious adverts and unusual betting opportunities, hoped to host the event in August or September but had yet to decide on a prize: "Maybe a gold pair of underpants or a golden fig leaf would be most appropriate."
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: depraved; filth; ireland; obscene; perversion; poker; sins; sinuponsin
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posted on
05/15/2006 12:20:40 PM PDT
by
kingattax
To: kingattax
Paddy, what would your dear mother say?
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posted on
05/15/2006 12:22:01 PM PDT
by
mtbopfuyn
(I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
To: kingattax; Happygal; Colosis; Black Line; Cucullain; SomeguyfromIreland; Youngblood; Fergal; ...
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland will play host to the world's biggest ever strip poker contest if bookmaker Paddy Power gets its way. I think I'll go to that... hehe
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posted on
05/15/2006 12:24:33 PM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~| IRA supporters on FR are trolls, end of story!)
To: kingattax
"We got almost 100 requests to take part," the company's spokesman, also called Paddy Power, said.Please reject this one.
To: kingattax
In before the "No Thanks"!
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posted on
05/15/2006 12:28:22 PM PDT
by
BJClinton
(Forget the fence, annex Mexico.)
To: kingattax
I only play online strip poker...
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posted on
05/15/2006 12:32:33 PM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
To: PBRSTREETGANG
OMG, I see so many pics of her here, that I am actually getting accustomed to her face!! HELP!!!!
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posted on
05/15/2006 12:32:34 PM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~| IRA supporters on FR are trolls, end of story!)
To: Yo-Yo
I only play online strip poker... Nothing like IM... ;)
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posted on
05/15/2006 12:33:33 PM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~| IRA supporters on FR are trolls, end of story!)
To: kingattax
I bet it is one big sausagefest.
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posted on
05/15/2006 12:45:36 PM PDT
by
FearlessFreep
(Excuse me. But are those your legs or are you riding a chicken?)
To: Irish_Thatcherite
The problem with this (and nude beaches, nudist camps etc) is that most of the people playing would probably look better if they put some clothes on.
Though no surprise that Paddy Power would propose this!
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posted on
05/15/2006 1:36:28 PM PDT
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: Incorrigible
That is true, though to be honest - I don't think it will happen - there would be rumpus over it.
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posted on
05/15/2006 1:46:39 PM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~| IRA supporters on FR are trolls, end of story!)
To: mtbopfuyn
what would your dear mother say?
Where clean underwear.
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posted on
05/15/2006 6:29:59 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Durham - The San Francisco of North Carolina)
To: Irish_Thatcherite
That is true, though to be honest - I don't think it will happen - there would be rumpus over it. Probably. Typical bloody Ireland. Some people have little to worry about.
To: Youngblood
Probably. Typical bloody Ireland. Some people have little to worry about. LOL!!
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posted on
05/16/2006 11:54:05 AM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~| IRA supporters on FR are trolls, end of story!)
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