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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ante Up, Ladies | 10/23/2005 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 13, 1997 | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

...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?...

Author: By Victoria Ilyinsky | Title: The Games We Play, Literally | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

...Sporting silky black knit shirts, he often uses streetwise vernacular in his chats with the city's beleaguered residents. Visiting with a group of small-business owners last week, he urged them not to let large outside firms steal all the recovery business up for grabs. "Don't let 'em pull a razoo on you," he said, using the local slang for cheating at marbles. A day after dining on hickory-grilled rib-eye steak and praline bread pudding with Allen and President George W. Bush in the French Quarter, Nagin managed to salvage a potentially deflating photo op last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can New Orleans Do Better? | 10/16/2005 | See Source »

...STICK 'EM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Style: A Stitch In Time ... | 10/16/2005 | See Source »

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