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...most popular and socially accepted activities in teenagers' lives. Cable TV draws young viewers for popular celebrity-poker shows and big-ticket poker tournaments (more than a million people tuned in for each ESPN telecast of the 2006 World Series of Poker). Schools throughout the country offer casino nights, using play money or raffles, as a way to keep kids from going to unsupervised parties, with their attendant risks of alcohol and drunk driving. And almost everywhere, parents gladly throw poker games for their teenage children, particularly the boys...
...foundations of modern game theory--by studying strategy games like poker. Poker is like life, the argument goes, a battlefield where the players constantly try to assess risks and guess one another's next moves. More recently, Anthony Cabot, a leading gaming-law attorney who represents online and casino operators, co-authored a paper for the Thomas M. Cooley Law Review linking poker to other games in history, like jousting, that have motivated young men to increase their combat skills. He wrote that even Islam, which prohibits gambling, has made exceptions for betting on horse races...
...entire match will be sponsored-and broadcast over the Internet-by Golden Palace Casino, which in the past has concocted marketing campaigns for oddities like Britney Spears? pregnancy test, William Shatner?s kidney stone, and the Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Sandwich. Says Golden Palace Marketing director Drew Black: "This was just a perfect fit-what filmmaker is going to take their critics to the point to say, you don?t like me, put up your dukes...
...Barenaked Ladies released their newest album Sept. 12 and will begin their official U.S. concert tour at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut on Oct. 21. They’ve already started promoting the album on the road—singing before a crowd of 100,000 at a stock-car racing event in Virginia...
...Barenaked Ladies released their newest album Sept. 12 and will begin their official U.S. concert tour at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut on Oct. 21. But they've already started promoting the album on the road—singing before a crowd of 100,000 at a stock-car racing event in Virginia...