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Styrofoam cups and cans of diet Coke are scattered across a desk dominated by a bulky radio microphone. A fleshy, pie-faced man in a short-sleeved shirt is idly dealing blackjack hands to himself while grappling with questions from his call-in radio audience. Mostly, the problems revolve around money: investments, insurance, loans, lawsuits. A man from Topeka who sells computer cables for a living wants to know how much liability coverage he should have. Bruce Williams replies, "I wouldn't walk across the street with less than a mil. Juries are crazy." A caller from Spokane wants advice...
Online gambling, the easy-access phenomenon that allows internet users to place bets in games such as roulette, poker and blackjack, has become a job substitute and even an addiction for some students...
...shelling out an estimated $250 million for them in 2004, according to research firm Zelos Group. Verizon alone offers more than 350 titles. Old favorites like Pac-Man and Tetris have been redesigned for smaller cell-phone screens. They rank among current best sellers, along with card games like blackjack and poker. But there are also plenty of sports and action games out for this fall. The newest trend is multiplayer titles like Family Feud, which let you compete against hundreds of other gamers in real time and see top scores--though often the graphics aren't anything to write...
...loves poker. It gives you a sense of control you don't find in other games," says Howard Schwartz, the proprietor of Las Vegas' Gambler's Book Shop. "It's a roller coaster with an adrenaline high." Schwartz links poker's popularity to a natural migration from other games. "Blackjack players have gone to poker because the casinos are breathing down the necks of anybody who counts cards or increases their bets substantially. They're so afraid that these M.I.T. kids are going to take them down for a million dollars a day that they've made blackjack a difficult...
...opened in 1949 at the Golden Nugget casino. In the early 1960s, the big action shifted from downtown to the Strip, where casinos such as the Dunes and the Stardust offered a variation of the game called Seven-Card Lowball, also known as Razz. Then came the boom in blackjack and the beginning of poker's decline. By the late '80s and early '90s, during Las Vegas' ill-fated attempt to turn itself into a family destination, tourists seemed to have lost patience with the game's sleazy Wild West flavor. With revenues declining, several casinos closed their poker rooms...