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...beautiful thing about the World Series of Poker on ESPN is absolutely nothing. The event originates from Binion's Horseshoe Casino, a low-ceilinged dump in the vagrant's paradise that is downtown Las Vegas. The featured players have the unkempt eyebrows, gothic stares and cadaverous skin tones of Scooby-Doo villains. They are the least attractive people on TV not named Larry King...
...ESPN, Tuesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.) has averaged 1,248,000 viewers during its eight-week run, which ends with a grand finale at 8 p.m. Aug. 26 (watch for repeats in the fall). A year ago, the same time slot averaged 408,000 viewers. Series' two-hour rival, World Poker Tour, pulled in 844,000 viewers through July on the Travel Channel, nearly triple what the channel drew last year. Imagine how many people might have tuned in if they knew there was a Travel Channel...
KATY LEDERER. Lederer, an American poet well known for her collection Winter Sex, attempts prose in her memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers. The book brings the world of professional gambling to life, offering a perceptive account of growing up as well as gambling. Lederer’s childhood includes an English professor father, a mother hooked on crossword puzzles, solitaire, and scotch and two older siblings who rob their mother’s purse. All gamblers and all fiercely competitive, the family becomes split after the kids go to college and the parents divorce...
Some of those customers are not happy with the idea of being traded like poker chips. Conway says he has received calls of support from 26 of his customers' chief information officers. The majority, he claims, were indignant enough to consider switching from Oracle Database to its Microsoft and IBM rivals. The idea of Oracle splashing out $5.1 billion on PeopleSoft also unnerved investment analysts at Moody's, who downgraded the firm's outlook for Oracle from stable to negative; however, few investors followed suit. Oracle's stock rose to $13.48 at the end of the week, up 3% over...
...Bergson, then an undergraduate at Hopkins, sometimes played poker with the university’s faculty members, she said. In one game, he staked his hand on a promise from a professor to tutor Abram, then 16. Gus Bergson won, and the tutoring helped Bergson win the only scholarship Hopkins offered that year. He graduated in three years and went on to earn his masters degree and doctorate from Harvard...