Sports Book at Poker Tables
- Betting Elsewhere While you Wait..

We thought this warranted a comment because of the number of poker players we notice doing this. And it wasn't just at one poker room...

Playing at a variety of poker rooms, we'd find at least one player looking down at a sportsbetting form in any poker room from old Binions on Freemont Street to the fancy Venetian on the Vegas Boulevard.

Whether playing in a cash ring game or a tourney, fellow poker players sitting beside you may be perusing a sportsbook form in between their turn at the poker table.

To be a successful poker player takes patience and some poker players find it difficult to have patience and will play many hands just to be in the action. So it makes sense to some players to keep their patience by focussing on something they enjoy that can also be done while sitting at a poker table.

You can't bet at any other type of game while playing poker. You can't play roulette or blackjack. You can't play video casino games. When you are sitting at a poker table, you are in the gambling zone. Reading a book just doesn't quite cut it.

But sportsbetting is all about gambling too and can be as social or anti social as you want it to be. If you want to spend your in between poker turns picking your games and sports picks without a word to anyone else about who you are betting for, it is very solitary. However, you will find a few poker players who are just as much into watching all sorts of sports as you. So it becomes a simple matter of asking for a few opinions on who to bet on.

All the major casinos have sports betting bars. It is quite easy to take a quick walk break from the poker table to put in your betting order and come back.

Another possibility as well for sportsbook betting is the easy access to the internet through your cellphone. By hooking up with the popular reputable sportsbook online websites like: Pinnacle Sports, bodog.com, WSEX.com, you can make your sports bets through your telephone all while sitting at the poker table.

We wouldn't advise the beginning poker player to do multiple gambling tasks though. If you are a beginner, you should be concentrating on the board and what other players might have that might be a better hand than yours. If you feel you are a fairly sufficient poker player and don't seem to be rebuying in all the time, and feel comfortable betting on something else while playing poker, then sports book betting might be for you!

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