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'Social Experiment' Tournament Attempts to Highlight Fun in Poker

"Poker is fun for everyone," Prahlad Friedman once infamously rapped in a short interview on ESPN at the World Series of Poker.

But is it really fun if you're sitting at a table with a bunch of people hiding under hoods and behind sunglasses, faces silently buried in their smartphones while they wait for the next deal?

That's a question that's been on the mind of World Poker Tour Executive Tournament Director Matt Savage, and he's looking to make everyone practice avoidance on those actions with his special new tournament.