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Jeff Shulman, president of Las Vegas-based Card Player magazine, says subscriptions have doubled to 7,500 in the past five months. He believes poker's new players have brought a more vibrant spirit to the casinos. "Now there are a lot more maniacs and they're winning much more often," he says. "These kids don't have any fear. They're willing to move the chips around and they celebrate like crazy after they win a hand...
...down for a million dollars a day that they've made blackjack a difficult game to enjoy." Jeff Shulman, president of Las Vegas-based Card Player magazine, says subscriptions have doubled to 7,500 in the past five months. He believes poker's new players have brought a more vibrant spirit to the casinos. "Now there are a lot more maniacs and they're winning much more often," he says. "These kids don't have any fear. They're willing to move the chips around and they celebrate like crazy after they win a hand." Vegas' first significant poker room...
...political career-all at the comparatively tender age of 52-he may want to revise that motto before the next guide is printed. With the DPJ's strong showing in the recent Upper House parliamentary election, Okada has cemented his position as Japan's newest and most vibrant major politician...
...informal agreement: if the oligarchs stayed out of politics, the Kremlin would not revisit the dubious privatization deals that brought them their billions. Khodorkovsky chafed under this, and by Putin's second term he was funding opposition parties in the Duma. He claimed this was to encourage a vibrant democracy; the Kremlin suspected him of buying his own political bloc. Khodorkovsky may pay a high price for his political ambitions. "He will not walk the streets of Moscow for the next five years," predicts an international financial specialist. But Russia could end up paying a high price, too. The Yukos...
...open our minds." The Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported that Hu went on to say that the repositioning of the British Labour Party to the center was an example of political adaptation worth studying. So it is; but if China's leaders want to find a vibrant, modern, political culture, there's no need to make the trip to London. Hong Kong is much closer...