But, strictly speaking, the legend he came into it while playing poker is a stretch.
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The point is millions of people are playing poker and they are going to continue to play poker legally or illegally.
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He sees the fingerprints of supply and demand everywhere he looks: at work and at play, sipping coffee, shopping for groceries, even playing poker with friends.
For Jonathan Duhamel, the road to riches meant dropping out of a finance degree program at the University of Quebec in Montreal to concentrate on playing poker.
Malachi Riddick, now 18 years old, began playing poker with Mr. Engler in middle school as a way to overcome shyness during their counseling sessions, he recalled.
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Nevertheless, the evidence from more than 50 years of research is conclusive: for a large majority of fund managers, the selection of stocks is more like rolling dice than like playing poker.
One night, when he was caught playing poker in his room, against the rules, he said the guards brought him and his friends to the bottom floor of the dorm and threatened to fire them.
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As Forbes pointed out in February, the owners and operators of the biggest online poker firms are an open secret--and many of them can be found regularly playing poker in Las Vegas or promoting their companies at U.S. events shown on television.
Her attorney said a brain tumor affected Maureen O'Connor's judgment in playing video poker.
Duhamel might finish that finance degree some day, but for now he says he is going to stick to playing professional poker.
Las Vegas: I love Vegas, started playing casino poker there more than 20 years ago at the now defunct Aladdin, and despite some shortfalls, like a lot of good players, it is still my absolute favorite.
The investigating agents contacted Washington state online poker players in July who received checks from Arrow Checks and said the money represented proceeds from online poker playing at PokerStars, court documents say.
Perhaps he could borrow a visor from poker-playing buddy Steve Davis to counteract the problem?
In the case of Coolidge's poker-playing dogs, the aesthetic value may be questionable--but then, that's not really the point.
His poker-playing dogs are the most famous, but he also painted dogs on a commuter train and in a ballpark.
Mr Sikorski has also been playing high-stakes poker with America, demanding money for military modernisation, and high-tech defences for Warsaw, in return for hosting a missile-defence base.
Douglas, a poker-playing pal of Roosevelt's with a strong independent streak, fed sheep to earn money during a cross-country train journey from his native Washington state to Columbia Law School.
It is through compromise, discussion, healthy debate, attending dinners and luncheons together, playing golf and basketball, or poker, sharing a mint julep or a Makers Mark, and so on.
In short, the huge playing field for hundreds of thousands of American poker players is gone, overnight.
Poker programming turns out to be a bit costlier than just filming a bunch of folks playing cards.
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