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1.Fifteen Minutes (FM): So, what’s your dog’s name? What kind of breed...
...hundreds of years, the most powerful voices in American society branded gambling a wicked sport—spittle in the face of the Protestant work ethic. Puritans drafted the first gambling regulations in the New World with self-satisfied relish. “If asked to name the greatest agencies of evil in the land,” declared one Methodist preacher from New Orleans in the late 19th century, “we would not have declared the giant evil until we had named the Louisiana State Lottery.” Preachers, the moral compasses of their day, took...
...want to marry a girl. ‘What’s your job?’ ‘I’m a professional gambler.’ Like, c’mon.” Darkhawk requested his online moniker be used instead of his real name for this piece, expressing concern that his gambling activity could have ramifications for his impending graduation. He says that if he does find a good enough job, he’ll probably play poker on a more recreational level—but for the moment, the game is proving...
Take Chris Moneymaker. He may have had the name, but nobody—much less professional players—knew who he was a little less than a decade ago. Through a $39 buy-in satellite tournament online, the then-27-year-old accountant from Tennessee won a seat in the main event of the 2003 World Series of Poker, where he won the first prize of $2.5 million. The crowning of a regular Joe as World Champion had seismic effects: interest in poker spiked—a trend that has been dubbed the “Moneymaker Effect?...
...desk before picking it up to twirl it into a plastic blur. He looks like a nervous student—not the stony-limbed picture of calm so familiar from televised poker tournaments. And yet Ian, who works with a student group at Harvard and requested that his real name not be used for this piece, is very much a poker player—a professional online, who says he has not gone to bed until nine this morning after a marathon game...