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...style virtual gaming claimed they were in the clear. But others weren't chancing it: organizers postponed an Internet gaming conference scheduled this week in Las Vegas, blaming execs' jitters over landing in the U.S. Still, not everywhere is off-limits. Gibraltar-based PartyGaming, the world's biggest online poker operator, pledged to pare down its reliance on U.S. punters; some 46% of its new poker players came from outside the U.S. in the three months to July, double the share a year earlier. In its sights? The legions of gamblers in China, Japan and the rest of Asia...
...best preparation for that all-important personality test may well be a college career spent playing poker and doing tequila shots. An Atlanta woman I interviewed, a skilled website writer, was fired without explanation after a few weeks at a job. "I tried to fit in," she told me. "I went to lunch with the guys, but all they talked about was sports, which I know nothing about, and they all seemed to know each other from college." Poor thing, she had probably wasted her college years in the library...
...tool available to prosecutors against online gambling firms is the the U.S. Wire Act, which was conceived in the 1960s, long before the world went digital, and prohibits bets by wire communication. But since a U.S. appeals court ruled in 2002 that the act applied only to sports gambling, poker operators have denied that poker is a sport. (Those taking sports bets argue too that the Internet has changed the rules of the game and claim that the Wire Act is not applicable to such digital wagers...
...high-end resort business has long been a bit like those TV poker tournaments. As soon as one innkeeper builds what looks like an unbeatable hand of perks, a rival somewhere raises the stakes. Not long ago, chauffeured Rolls-Royce service to and from the airport, monogrammed 1,000-thread-count bed linens, customized room décor and personal butlers were the last word in lavish amenities...
...dream is for juggling to become a big-time professional sport, like ice skating--or at least a lucrative fad, like poker. And he has made a start: ESPN and ESPN2 broadcast the first two WJF championships in 2004 and '05, a first for competitive juggling. The next event is in August. The IJA holds its own festival--the '06 festival is this week in Portland, Ore.--but so far it remains a relatively low-profile affair...