The Commerce Casino in Los Angeles California is planning to host a $350 buy-in $100k Guaranteed event called #TheSocialExperiment that will ban the use of mobile phones, sunglasses and hoods at the table.

A few shakes of a giraffe’s tail ago, I wrote about the relevance of particular types of clothes and accessories in poker, and surveyed around 50 poker players to establish the vibe.

John Eames, a live cash game player from the UK, told me he would ban headphones.

“Why?” I asked him.