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...games over second-place Yale heading into the final two weeks of conference play. Senior midfielder Kaitlin Donovan, who failed to score in her team’s first 13 games, led the Tigers with three first-half goals. Princeton struck early and often, registering four goals in the game??€™s first 16 minutes...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No. 4 Princeton Hands Crimson Shutout Loss | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

With less than a month to go before the Harvard-Yale Game on Nov. 21, there is an almost universal acknowledgment among Harvard students that The Game??€™s presence at Yale this year is sure to mean fewer intrusive rules and more...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: The Nanny State Strikes Again | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...quit once his bankroll had dwindled to $500. But at the time, playing it out seemed like a fine idea: lose it all or win everything back. The lights flashing from his computer screen, the adrenaline, and the late hour made the whole enterprise seem like a video game??€”with dollars as the points system. How simple it seemed. And yet, how perilous: his entire bank account gone in the time it takes most people to get a good night’s sleep...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Playing for Keeps | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

...part, Darkhawk tries to diminish his chance of disaster with a simple rule: his bankroll should be at least 100 times the buy-in for a given game, to ensure that the game??€™s variance won’t leave him broke...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Playing for Keeps | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

...there’s something to be said about the lure of the game??€”not only in the monetary rewards that its most skilled players can reap over time, but also the sheer thrill of engaging in an environment often depicted as risqué and fast-paced, a break from the mundane nine-to-five job. As UNLV professor Peter Gray observes, many players derive their enjoyment from adopting a new persona for a limited time—the incognito nature of an online poker table, the stoicism needed at a live game, or the chance to escape...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Playing for Keeps | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

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