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October 5th, 2007

We’re suspending your poker game…

Posted by: Robert Basler
Tags: Oddly Enough, , , ,

Okay, these folks are playing EXTREME poker, hanging over a cliff, which means their regular poker face is tinged with green and you don’t know if they’re going to bluff or barf.

Boring. I’m waiting for EXTREMELY Extreme Poker. People, next week’s game will dangle over a shark pool, and the cable will be cut halfway through. Some of the cards will be glazed with anthrax, and hungry wolverines will leap at you from the cliff.

Oh, and did we mention the snipers? Sonia Legg has a video report:

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Poker players suspended over a cliff at the entrance to Sydney Harbor, October 4, 2007. REUTERS/Tim Wimborne

9 comments so far

Next, extreme bingo!

- Posted by Lady Weasel

OK, the “dogs playing poker” are no longer my favorite pictures.

But you missed the caption: “Dawgs playing poker.”

No charge. You’re welcome. Citizen journalism rocks!

- Posted by John C Abell

Highest card? Simple. Tallest player.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

You gotta love the ominous empty chair, front right.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

Does the fall end in rocks or ocean? I mean, come on.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

If they are tethered to the metal platform and if it breaks off then they are indeed “all in.”

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

Ratings whores.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

I think I’d rather go fish.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

Be careful with the phrase, “dropping out.”

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

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