Poker demographoc diversifies

Poker demographoc diversifies
PokerGazette 07/09/06 18:12
Devon Miller is just 21. But when it comes to cards, Miller has more in common with the 50-plus crowd at the Commerce Casino than he does with his fellow twenty-somethings.The common denominator is poker. And Miller has played enough of it to go hand to hand with professional gamblers who made their first bluff 30 years before he was born."I already have the money and experience to play with those guys," said Miller, whose gambling career was inspired by the film "Rounders," a poker drama starri

Big cheque for poker ace
PokerGazette 04/03/06 15:41
CARD sharp Teresa Doherty pocketed £8000 in her first major poker final.The recruitment company manager took third place in the Women's Poker UK Open held in London.The 48-year-old, from Glasgow, only began playing online last year after hearing friends talk about the game.But she has already banked her first big cheque after her maintaining her perfect poker face last week.Now she's hoping to swap the boardroom for the poker table and take the game up professionally.Teresa said: "It was fantast

Gambling addictions grow as casinos flourish
Poker - Topix 06/18/06 11:41
Gambling once was "just a shady kind of thing that polite people didn't admit to doing," said an advocate for families of problem gamblers.