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...sites--the game's macho image has undergone a makeover. At card tables both real and virtual across the country, women who didn't know a flush from a full house a year ago are pushing in chips and slapping down cards faster than you can say Texas Hold 'Em. Like many men, female players are often drawn in by moneymaking dreams (as in Chris Moneymaker, the unknown online player who inspired many a poker habit by capturing the $2.5 million World Series of Poker prize in 2003). But for women, there's the added appeal of having a great...
...women players who maintain realistic limits, poker can be invigorating socially and even professionally. Jennifer Nichols, 25, a San Francisco public relations executive, hosts a Texas Hold 'Em party for her girlfriends every Monday night. The players, ages 21 to 28, dress sloppy, eschew makeup and dish over Desperate Housewives. "Everyone's so busy," she says, "but at the games my girlfriends and I really get to talk. And because it's considered a male game, other women think it's cool that...
...card game really teach such profound life lessons? Poker-playing women say it's so, that knowing when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em is more than just a hokey country-music sentiment--and it ain't just for cowboys...
Albright looks and sounds like a latter-day Margo Channing (Bette Davis) in All About Eve on the verge of uttering her famous line, "Fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy night." Go get 'em, Big Mama! ERROL ALLAN Guntersville, Alabama...
...talking penny change. Between Texas Hold ‘em in the Dunster dining hall and shootout tournaments on the weekends, poker aficionados can earn several hundred dollars each week. This profit pontential is prompting many players, in school and out, to pursue higher stakes and bigger returns from the newest house around (no, not the Bee): the web. Between empire.com, poker.com, and Mrsupergames.com, any 18-year-old can sign in and ante up, playing up to 60 hands an hour. At $10 a hand, 60 hands an hour, 10 hours a week… well, you?...