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Bookmaker has eyes on strip-poker record
Reuters ^ | Mon May 15, 2006 4:38pm ET

Posted on 05/15/2006 8:03:05 PM PDT by sully777

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 organizing 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 organization: "We're considering their claim and we'll get back to the organizers 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: Chit/Chat; Humor
KEYWORDS: clover; crimson; gambling; ireland; irishswweepstakes; royalflush; strippoker
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1 posted on 05/15/2006 8:03:07 PM PDT by sully777
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2 posted on 05/15/2006 8:53:41 PM PDT by sully777 (wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
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To: BJClinton; Xenalyte; martin_fierro; EveningStar; Irish_Thatcherite; Happygal; MadIvan; Dallas59; ...

Beers cold. Pull up a chair-ping.
3 posted on 05/15/2006 9:04:28 PM PDT by sully777 (wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
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To: sully777; pissant; Lazamataz; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; SandyInSeattle; ...
Got your entry forms in yet?


4 posted on 05/15/2006 9:07:39 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Rachel Corrie's not dead - she's taking a CAT nap.)
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To: Slings and Arrows; sully777

I always thought you two were the same person til now. ;o)


5 posted on 05/15/2006 9:08:45 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

We went to different schools together.


6 posted on 05/15/2006 9:10:10 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Rachel Corrie's not dead - she's taking a CAT nap.)
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To: pissant

I'm the good looking one.
7 posted on 05/15/2006 9:11:42 PM PDT by sully777 (wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
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To: Slings and Arrows

twin sons of different mothers?


8 posted on 05/15/2006 9:11:48 PM PDT by pissant
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To: sully777

I see that. I was thinking there might have been an ozark background though. ;o)


9 posted on 05/15/2006 9:12:53 PM PDT by pissant
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To: 1riot1ranger; al baby; albee; Argh; beaureguard; bedolido; Bella_Bru; beyond the sea; CholeraJoe; ..
Salacious Ping List ping!
10 posted on 05/16/2006 5:43:57 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Pudding won't fill the emptiness inside me . . . but it'll help.)
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To: Xenalyte

Them there dogs are nekkid.


11 posted on 05/16/2006 5:46:20 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Xenalyte

Thanks for the ping!!

My money says it will be one huge sausagefest.


12 posted on 05/16/2006 5:47:48 AM PDT by FearlessFreep (Excuse me. But are those your legs or are you riding a chicken?)
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To: Xenalyte

Ever since Ireland got out of the terrorism business, they've been looking for something to occupy their time.


13 posted on 05/16/2006 5:51:34 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (Bayonet the wounded!)
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To: sully777; exile; Xenalyte; pissant; Larry Lucido; BadKittySF; Maximus of Texas; r-q-tek86; ...

 

It's been a while...Thank God for the Irish.


14 posted on 05/16/2006 6:11:52 AM PDT by Fintan (One day we'll look back on this and plow into a parked car.)
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To: Fintan

She don't look irish


15 posted on 05/16/2006 6:21:46 AM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

She can play with my shillelagh any time...

16 posted on 05/16/2006 6:24:20 AM PDT by Fintan (One day we'll look back on this and plow into a parked car.)
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To: pissant
She don't look Irish...What do the Irish look like?

The Coors
OR


Sinead O'Conner
17 posted on 05/16/2006 6:41:16 AM PDT by sully777 (wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
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To: sully777
Like this...


18 posted on 05/16/2006 6:52:02 AM PDT by pissant
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To: Fintan

I might live to regret this, but please add me to your
Crazy Naked Ping List


19 posted on 05/16/2006 8:08:05 AM PDT by fnord (497 1/2 feet of rope ... I just carry it)
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I might live to regret this, but please add me to your
Crazy Naked Ping List

 

You're added. And you will live to regret it.

20 posted on 05/16/2006 8:15:32 AM PDT by Fintan (One day we'll look back on this and plow into a parked car.)
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