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...popularity. One sophomore who frequents clubs says, “There’s a lot of money flying around in final clubs. All of the guys are wealthy. I know that some nights guys drop hundreds—$400 or so,” he says. While the poker tradition is a continuation of decades of games, the rules are a bit different than those in the ’70s. “At one of the clubs there’s the unwritten rule that players who win must return,” he says. This gives...
This sort of high-stakes gambling among friends is not entirely uncommon outside of the clubs. One junior Pforzheimer resident plays under such circumstances in his weekly poker group. They would consider themselves friends—after all, half of them blocked together. “We’re all willing to float money back and forth,” he says. “We all buy in and let whoever pay it the next week. It’s more that people just don’t have money on them than people don?...
...everyone has that much self-control. One Cabot ’01 graduate and former gambling addict recounts his experiences. “I got into poker at Yale,” he begins. “I was down there for a year and stumbled into an underground game. The first night I played, I lost $150.” Instead of getting discouraged by his initial disappointment, he was determined to learn how to play the game. Three months later he won his money back, and more. He started playing poker at a “semi-professional?...
...obsessed with gambling,” he admits. “My last fall semester it was at its worst. Especially during football season. It got pretty bad. I would gamble a little every day. There was a three-week stretch where I played poker probably five hours a day. There was one day where I played all day,” he recalls. He ended up losing about $200. “That was the lowest of low,” he says...
...only the poker games that took over his life. He would go to Foxwoods with friends once a week during the spring semester of his junior year. And then there was online gambling...