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Which would you rather watch on TV?

A Playoff hockey game.
A Poker Tournament.

Could I get a mod to convert this into an actual poll. I'm curious.

Is there a time limit involved? I'm not a hockey or poker fan, but if I had to, I'd choose poker.

Playoff hockey is going to win every time with die hard sports fans, hell I love hockey. Doesn't change the fact the ratings are what the ratings are. And Poker gets better ratings than the NHL for ALL of the national NHL games during the regular season and for some in the post season

I didn't even realize they still showed poker on TV. I thought for sure that would have died off by now.

I like hockey a little bit...and I like poker a little bit. If I have to choose which one I am watching on TV, and to be honest, I rarely watch either, I am usually going to go with poker. Hockey on TV bores the crap out of me, and I don't play hockey (at 50 years old and 300 lbs...in Florida, hockey isn't a realistic option<g>) but I can watch poker and see how the professionals bid, based on their hands, and actually learn something that could help me in the really-real world. For an amateur, I am pretty serious about playing poker, and by "serious," I mean that I play occasional local games and own a few books on poker strategy.

Depends, if it is the Bruins hockey....if not the bruins poker. 

I'll take the skillful, fast paced, hard hitting sport of hockey any day of the week and twice on Sunday. Bunch of old dudes playing cards? I'd rather watch a Magic the Gathering tournament...

espn6 will be airing that next fall

Old dudes? You apparently haven't been watching any poker lately. The game has been taken over by the young dudes...

Though I don't really enjoy playing poker all that much, I do enjoy watching it.  I find a great parallel between some of the less-physical "sports" and poker.  Golf, NASCAR, Bowling -- these sports are long and draining.  And how you deal with the fatigue of the grind and your ability to adjust are what make great players.  I find poker very similar to this.  Sometimes you get on tilt when you lose a big hand (it's like hitting in the water in golf or spinning out in NASCAR) and it's how you recover that matters.  Also, just doing the same thing over and over and hanging in there can really affect your judgment and you gotta know when to take your shot.

I stand corrected. How about dudes, in general.  ;D And yeah you're right, haven't been watching. Except that one time where I stopped on the channel for about 25 seconds and had a moment like this:

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before changing it.

I feel like I could say the same to the people who voted for poker: "you haven't watched any playoff hockey lately"

^^^ I spent three years to trying to develop a taste for hockey, and watched at least 100-150 games during that time...including playoff games. I just couldn't get myself to enjoy it that much.

I feel the same way about soccer...and golf. I know that a lot of people like watching those sports, but they just don't appeal to me.

To be fair: aren't you also a big fan of regular season hockey?

I mean, if you like regular season hockey, then of course you're going to like playoff hockey.

To me, I've always had a problem with hockey because it's not as violent as I thought it would be. I was always naive about it because I figured with all the pads people would be taking other people out like crazy, like football. It's just not exciting to me. Then I also have a problem following the puck. I know they tried to add some highlight to it during the playoffs a few years ago or longer, but that didn't work. I'd rather watch it more than baseball, but that's not saying much.  ;D

This is most people's biggest problem.  The puck is the smallest thing on the screen.  But, if you watch more than casually, you start to see the patterns of players skating which can tell you where the puck is, even if it was invisible.  Occasionally, even the players on the ice lose sight of it, just the nature of the sport.

Teams in the playoffs tend to lay off the nastiness at times.  But the current Rangers/Capitals series appears to be the exception.  These teams plain old don't like each other.  If you wanna see violence, tune in tomorrow for Game 2.

Playoff Hockey for sure.  Especially that game seven against the Detroit Red Wings.  That empty net goal had my eyes pop out of my head.

Watching poker is akin to wartching paint dry IMHO. If I wake up and it's on tv I'll change the channel before falling back to sleep.

I think there is also an inherent local bias to the question.  If you're from Miami or Tampa, your interest in playoff hockey might be greatly variable depending on who's playing.  If you're from Atlanta or New Orleans, you're probably less likely to care about playoff hockey (or hockey as a whole).

True, but I would say that's true for the majority of TV watchers and I doubt that Miami or Tampa residents are much higher or lower than the national average. It's not like Florida is known for it's hockey. I was just curious what our little piece of the internet had to think, I'm not really drawing any conclusions from this although I think it's fairly representative poll.

Well, I was pointing that out because poker doesn't really have similar regional ties.

In other words, if you run this poll on a Dolphins or Bucs forum, I think you would get significantly different results than on a Falcons or Saints forum.

I agree, but you may get even different results on a Bears or Giants forum as well (even more skewed toward hockey than Dolphins or Bucs). I imagine that a Dolphins or Bucs forum is somewhere in the middle and fairly representative of the national audience.

It doesn't really matter whether people are tuning in just to see their home town team play. If they are watching a hockey game they are watching hockey.

I agree, Last time I watched Hockey was in 1995 when the Fla Panthers made their Stanley cup Run. After that, I'm still amazed we south Floridians still have a Hockey club.