Since "wearing sunglasses at poker tournaments" is a subset of the larger poker tournament phenomenon, yes.
Since thinking the wearing of sunglassess in poker tournaments is lame is a subset of thinking about poker tournaments, no.
Are they wearing them for strategy, style, sponsorship deals?
They wear them to minimize the ability of other players to read their faces.
I thought it might be something that started because of the increase in tv coverage (hence the sponsorship question).
In any case, lame.
Have you seen the unabomber pro? The guy covers his entire face with a hood.
That would be way too hot for me.
Yeah, it's lame. When one guy does something like wear a hood over his face, he's eccentric, weird, unique, etc. When lots of other people start doing it, they're just goofy.
Someone at my regular poker game has adopted the Unabomber look. Hoods and sunglasses only work, if you can keep your shit together while lighting your smoke, or counting your chips. I don't need to see your eyes, if I can hear your heartbeat from across the flippin' table. So, yes... Lame.
But the pros might be a little different. When you're up against folks who can count outs and pot odds like it's second nature, all they have left to do is study your tells. And they'll git ya.
Porn-title machine girl27 has a regular poker game? What else should we know about you 27?
I generally show up wearing a burqua and beat the tar out of any poker player. It not only hides your face, but it makes it easy to sneak in illegal cards!
Um, Abbie, that would be Mullah Abdullah. Like Father O'Brien, say.
I think it's part of a bigger trend. At some Winter Olympics event it occured to me that the trend in most disciplines goes towards 1. showing less and less of the face, and 2. showing more and more of the body (contours, not actually skin). I sure hope this doesn't catch on in poker.
Geez what's with all the snark about people's handles? If I were to play poker my strategy of choice would be to grow my bangs really long, over my eyes.
It would be demoralizing to to have a flock-of-seagulls looking guy kick your ass at poker.