Poker Poker Poker!: Re: [vpFREE] harrahs best VP

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From: "C clementiyn@yahoo.com [vpFREE]" <vpFREE@yahoogroups.com>
To: "vpFREE@yahoogroups.com" <vpFREE@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: [vpFREE] harrahs best VP

What???

Next you're gonna tell me that those lists of the Top Ten Steakhouses in America in my airplane magazine aren't really the ten best?

> On Mar 31, 2015, at 6:49 PM, GURU PERF guruperf@att.net [vpFREE] <vpFREE@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Many, if not most, of these "Best of" articles and lists, especially in magazines, are actually 'pay-to-play' puff pieces, with the results somehow -not implying anything here, by any means ; ) - seemingly heavily skewed in favor of entities that just coincidentally happen to have advertisements in, around, and surrounding the article.
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