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...blackjack team. “I like how it’s about everyday people going against the system and coming out on top,” said Sturgess. Before filming, the actor was completely new to the high-stakes world of gambling. “I played poker for matchsticks,” he said with a smile. Sturgess is also a relative newcomer to the movie industry. “When I sort of started getting into acting it was all about theatre, really, and I was living in Manchester at the time, and we would...
...thousands of people lined up in downtown Nairobi to snap up shares. It was perhaps most emblematic that one Kenyan newspaper the Daily Nation, referred to potential investors as "punters," as if by buying Safaricom shares they were betting on a racehorse, or a particularly promising poker hand. "There has been a lot of education, people are now aware of what it means to own shares," said Rina Karina, a corporate finance and research analyst at Faida Investments, which helped orchestrate the IPO. "But even there, the reason for the purchase of the shares is not for long-term investment...
...Derek Jeter without a doubt. He doesn't show emotion. I don't want to say he's emotionless, but he harnessed it as good as anybody. It took me a long time to get this poker face. He's in his early...
...cooler, you or Derek Jeter? -Nick Vincent, Hightstown, N.J.Oh, Derek Jeter without a doubt. He doesn't show emotion. I don't want to say he's emotionless, but he harnessed it as good as anybody. It took me a long time to get this poker face. He's in his early...
Harvard Law School’s Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society (GPSTS) met on Beacon Hill yesterday morning to protest a provision of a gaming bill—sponsored by Law School graduate Deval L. Patrick ’78—that would criminalize online poker in Massachusetts. About 30 poker aficionados, led by veteran Harvard law professor Charles R. Nesson ’60, assembled near the State House, arguing that banning Internet poker would deny card players a legitimate source of entertainment and income. Under the terms of the ban, online gambling would be punishable...