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Old 11-04-2007, 06:37 AM
Taso Taso is offline
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Default Re: NYC Poker Robbery and Shooting

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the press is out to screw us.

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While this might be true in general, this article doesn't strike me as particularly ignorant, biased or bigoted. Rather, it shows how the people playing in these games are just regular guys, dispelling the image that some might have of poker being a shady hustle.

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But both said they were surprised that Mr. DeSena, a gentle husband and the father of a teenage son, had been involved in the shadowy, sometimes dangerous world of poker games, where locations are spread by word of mouth and e-mail.



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^Biased. Look at the word usage, the sentence structure. It implies that usually "gentle husbands and fathers" don't play poker, only shadowy figures do.
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