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Sep 27 2004, 11:18am
Saturday nights used to find Danny Langseth and his Minnetonka High pals at the movie theater or at one another's homes playing video games. But since the summer, their pastimes have been replaced by a new obsession: Texas Hold'em.
Spurred by online poker and cable TV shows such as ESPN's "World Series of Poker" and Bravo's "Celebrity Poker Showdown," the game has become wildly popular with teenagers and college students. They hold tournaments in their basements and dorm rooms, paying $5 to $10 each for a shot at winning the jackpot. The more players, the bigger the pot.
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Sep 27 2004, 11:18am
BELL GARDENS, Calif. - When Marla Schram Schwartz sat down at a Southern California poker club two decades ago, men rose from the table and swore never to play with a woman.
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Sep 27 2004, 11:16am
ORLANDO, Fla. -- As reported by the Orlando Sentinel: "You could say that more teenage boys have started staying home and working on math skills: calculating percentages, identifying patterns, adding and subtracting.
"...They're playing poker - Texas Hold `em to be exact.
"...Since televised Texas Hold `em tournaments have become the darling of ESPN, the Travel Channel and Bravo, the free-for-all brand of poker has spread like text messages through a high school.
"...The newfound popularity of poker among teens worries some adults.
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Sep 27 2004, 11:15am
THEY'RE everywhere now. Casino San Pablo in San Pablo. Garden City in San Jose. Lucky Chances in Colma. The Oaks in Emeryville. California Grand in Pacheco and the Palace in Hayward, Buckhorn in Livermore and Artichoke Joe's in San Bruno. The Bay Area bunch joins nearly 100 other card clubs existing in the state. Toss in the Indian casinos and all the Nevada gaming facilities and you've got a lot of folks holding, folding and hitting. And, as San Ramon resident Errol Krok wisely realized, a dearth of dealers. Krok, 48, worked at three area clubs in the last eight years. About six weeks ago, he noticed that, thanks to the popularity of ESPN's "World Series of Poker" telecasts, more people were trying their hand at playing. And there weren't enough dealers to handle the demand. In fact, the casinos were "desperately" short of dealers, Krok says. It immediately clicked: Start a school for poker dealers. It made good sense to bring in some new blood into the business. Quicker than Krok could say "Texas Hold'em," the Ace opening session, which included eight men and six women 25 to 40.
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Sep 24 2004, 09:18am
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - On Sept. 19, three of the luckiest guys alive finally caught a break and headed up to a room at the Borgata casino here for a rest in the middle of a long day at the World Poker Tour. In the past few years these three have each won millions of dollars - the talk generally gets less specific when losses come up - playing Texas Hold 'Em, a card game that has stormed across television and computer screens and put poker in the middle of the table as never before.
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Sep 24 2004, 09:17am
Minneapolis, MN, Sep. 23 (UPI) -- Poker may prove to be a winner beyond the million-dollar Las Vegas tournament games seen on television.
Retailers, hoping to cash in on the popularity of the rich-pot games on TV, are stocking up on tables, chips and other poker gear. Casinos and card clubs are making room for poker tables while more tournaments show up on TV.
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Sep 24 2004, 09:16am
Harrah's Lake Tahoe may give tourism a hand next April.
With the World Series of Poker show to be televised from Stateline, tourism and casinos insiders are welcoming the ESPN show with open arms.
"Anything Nevada can (do) to attract events to the Lake Tahoe area is beneficial to this tourism-based economy," said Chris Chrystal, spokeswoman for the Nevada Commission on Tourism.
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Sep 16 2004, 10:50am
NEW YORK, NY (PRWEB) September 16, 2004 -- The Hanging Chad is back just in time for the 2004 national election in a deck of Presidential Poker (www.PrezPoker.com) cards that tackles a wide range of issues from the Patriot Act to homeland security and John Kerry's Purple Heart. The casino quality playing cards— which feature clever illustrations of "Evangelical in Chief" Bush, "Flip Flop" Kerry, "Pretty Boy" Edwards" and "Big Deal" Cheney— sold-out at Madison Square Garden during the recent Republican National Convention and are now being launched nationally.
The creation of a New York venture capitalist, the non-partisan playing cards are intended to increase political participation by informing while entertaining. “Just as Hollywood documentaries, dramatic television series, and late night comedy shows are expanding interest in the important 2004 election, the increasing popularity of recreational poker makes it a great platform to stimulate friendly political dialog among friends,” said creator Gregory Belmont.
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Sep 15 2004, 09:26am
If you're a Broadway-style dancer or an amateur poker player interested in showing your talents on local television, then producer Dave Wallace wants to see you next weekend.
Auditions for both dancers and players -- as well as for two hosts -- will be conducted by appointment on Saturday and in an open call Sunday.
To schedule an appointment, call (316) 990-6323. Casey Durbin will audition dancers, and Kristy Draxler will audition player and host candidates.
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Sep 15 2004, 09:25am
A Belfast maths graduate who rejected the offer of a £40,000-a-year banking job in favour of professional online gambling is on course to hit a £234,000 jackpot by December, the Sun reports.
Lee-Anne Smyth, 25, currently walks away with a cool £4,500 a week from Ladbrokespoker.com, and told the UK tabloid: "Who needs a proper job when I can make what most people earn in a month in a couple of hours?" Smyth - who graduated from Queen’s University, Belfast with a 2.2 honours degree in pure and applied mathematics - claims that "hours spent solving algebraic equations sharpened my poker brain."
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