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Adventure Racing and Poker – a Natural Pair
At first glance, poker
may not seem to have much in common with adventure racing. It is a sedentary
activity whose practitioner seldom run more than a couple of meters to get
a seat at a poker table. Nevertheless, PokerJunkie.com and Team Santa Fe have formed a partnership, that is a natural pairing.
Endurance while sitting down
Just like expedition adventure racing,
poker may require a lot of endurance such as required at long
poker tournaments.. With long sessions ending late in the night
and allowing only short periods of sleep, a tournament
puts players endurance to the test. Players in varying states of exhaustion
often contest final tables. Obviously, the physical demands in tournament
poker cannot be compared to adventure racing, but staying
focused on your game for hours on hours without losing concentration involves
its own particular form of stamina. Facing repeated adversities
without losing patience for one single hand, even if you haven’t slept, is
another challenge that separates the good players from the great. Similar
to multi-sport adventure racing, strategic decisions
must be made by exhausted competitors under immense pressur
A partnership joining poker and adventure racing
PokerJunkie.com is a poker site with guides to online poker and other features such as texas holdem rules,
together with helpful information for poker players.
Online poker has seen a tremendous growth in the last few years. Along with
a growing market for poker, the competition among poker sites, poker forums
and related businesses grows tougher by the day. To reach
a large audience, it becomes more and more important to build diversified
partnerships for marketing purposes. Because sports and
games are so closely related, we have chosen to support the relatively
small but exciting sport of adventure racing. It is to this endeavor and
to the further success that PokerJunkie.com now enters
as a sponsor of the Team Santa Fe Adventure Racing.
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