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EVERY HARVARD gambler has his favorite poker story: the fortune won and lost overnight; the sports car, the girl friend that changed hands over the green-felt table. Some of these stories are apocryphal. Most...

Author: By Kerry Gruson, | Title: Harvard on $500 a Night | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

...morning last fall a morose and exhausted sophomore walked into the Coop, turned over his charge card to three clubmates and watched them ring up nearly one hundred dollars worth of purchases. Still wearing their tuxedoes, the four were settling the score from an all-night poker game...

Author: By Kerry Gruson, | Title: Harvard on $500 a Night | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

After several of these early morning excursions to the Coop, the president of the club took the sophomore aside and offered to teach him the essentials. The only alternative, the president suggested, was to stop playing poker...

Author: By Kerry Gruson, | Title: Harvard on $500 a Night | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

...Harvard poker players insist that there is a definite hierarchy of games. The biggest and most expensive are traditionally played in Dunster and Leverett. One former Harvard student flies down from Stowe in black tie for the weekly Dunster game for which each player receives a gold-rimmed invitation...

Author: By Kerry Gruson, | Title: Harvard on $500 a Night | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

...Leverett group is much more informal. Although stakes are smaller the House claims that its poker is far more professional--and subtle. "I will never play at Dunster again. Last time the books were a hundred dollars off at the end of the night. They are regular cut-throats," a Leverett player said...

Author: By Kerry Gruson, | Title: Harvard on $500 a Night | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

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