Sunglasses and Poker----Really?

Sunglasses in poker
So I guess since we are having trouble legalizing poker in this country we should instead ban sunglasses during live play. On top of that a certain well-known player/blogger compared wearing sunglasses to cheating, which is just plain ridiculous. He went on to say that he would expect players like Russ Hamilton to wear sunglasses. What about players like Phil Hellmuth, Greg Raymer, or John Phan, all of who wear sunglasses and all of who have honor beyond reproach.

Where do you draw the line if you do ban sunglasses? What about those of us wearing prescription glasses, some of which are tinted. Tinting runs the range from light to heavy and might be hard to police. So before you open a can of worms you really need to think about the ramifications. Comparing sunglasses to performance enhancing drugs or outright cheating is nothing short of ridiculous. He also talks about how much better it shows for TV without sunglasses. Look at the great exposure Raymer got with his funky sunglasses during his WSOP main event Victory, pretty good TV in my opinion. Now that he’s doing poker TV and playing heads up against priests in a let’s just say “interesting” format all of a sudden he is dictating rules. Hey, he didn’t event seem to know the rules at a major live event when it came to a partially exposed hand on the river. It might seem that for some, what you call cheating depends on which side of the line you are standing on.