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...some very smart people as well. "The dotcom generation loves poker. It gives you a sense of control you don't find in other games," says Howard Schwartz, the proprietor of Las Vegas' Gambler's Book Shop. "It's a roller coaster with an adrenaline high." Schwartz links poker's popularity to a natural migration from other games. "Blackjack players have gone to poker because the casinos are breathing down the necks of anybody who counts cards or increases their bets substantially. They're so afraid that these M.I.T. kids are going to take them down for a million dollars...
...appeal. "There's elimination," he says, "there's victory, there's defeat and there are real stakes involving everyday, normal people." And some very smart people as well. "The dotcom generation loves poker. It gives you a sense of control you don't find in other games," says Howard Schwartz, the proprietor of Las Vegas' Gambler's Book Shop. "It's a roller coaster with an adrenaline high." Schwartz links poker's popularity to a natural migration from other games. "Blackjack players have gone to poker because the casinos are breathing down the necks of anybody who counts cards...
...Athens." OK, so maybe this is supposed to be "Melrose Place" to "The O.C."'s "Beverly Hills 90210." Josh Schwartz, the creator of Fox's Orange County soap, brings us this drama, set in a fictional New England college town. The pilot hasn't been shot yet, so instead Schwartz described the setting and cast, which includes, he said using a Seth Cohen-esque coinage, a "Hinjew" - a character who's half-Hindu and half-Jewish...
...Staff writer Bari M. Schwartz can be reached at bschwart@fas.harvard.edu...
...Bari M. Schwartz contributed to the reporting of this story...