Card Player and PoliticsBarry Shulman Responds to Criticism |
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Card Player is about poker. Should we even be speaking of politics? Almost always, the answer should be no.
It turns out that since we are by far the largest poker medium, we must pause on any huge stance we take, as poker has become so mainstream and almost any position is bad. The easy way is to be neutral on everything.
By far the greatest amount of e-mail I have ever received has been in the last few months about our political stance - or lack thereof.
Until yesterday, I was widely criticized for not rallying poker players to help affect our U.S. legislation as it relates to poker.
Yesterday, I was widely criticized for making Card Player a political forum, although another group was upset that I acted too late. Click here to read yesterday's article.
Dipping our toes into politics is not something that we take lightly here. The only other political stance we have ever taken was that I was a strong proponent of no-smoking poker rooms well before it was in vogue. Indeed, to the best of my knowledge, Card Player Cruises (which I owned at the time) had the first public nonsmoking poker room anywhere that wasn't required by law.
My personal writing role these days is to write about the world of poker. Because of my position, I have some unique access to information that some find interesting. I have many friends who can explain how to play Q-Q vs. A-K just as well as I do, and many more who actually can play the hand better than I.
For better or worse, the electorate has spoken, and we will work within the system on all issues. The only issues that are relevant to Card Player are poker issues, and we will continue to use our resources to educate readers - players and politicians alike - about those poker issues.
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