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http://www.townhall.com/columnists/Colum...9a-edcb1da79d97
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Annie Duke, who testified at a recent House Judiciary Committee hearing on Internet gambling, is not a typical poker player. A professional for 13 years, she is the biggest female money winner in the history of tournament poker.
Gregory J. Hogan Jr. is not a typical poker player, either. As his father, the pastor of the First Baptist Church in Barberton, Ohio, explained at a House Financial Services Committee hearing last summer, "Gregory Jr. is currently in prison for a robbery he committed to feed his online gambling addiction."
While Annie Duke recognizes that most Americans who play poker do it for fun, not for a living, Pastor Hogan tends to over-generalize from his son's equally extreme experience with the game, which involved losing hundreds of dollars a day while playing 12 hours at a time. Hogan demands an addict's veto over Internet gambling: Because his son robbed a bank, he thinks, no one should be allowed to play poker online....
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Has anyone yet attempted to reach out to Tucker Carlson?
Annie is a nice counter "exceptional" to the norm, as is her testimony that your average player risk about $10 a week. It would be nice it "we" could get more "entertainment" players outfront in this "fight."
As it is "we" still seem to suffer from all out front people directrly making a living from poker, thus seen as protecting their livelyhood.
Other than Tuff, I don't know exactly how you get many people to proudly admit they consistently loose money at poker and are happy about that fact?!?!? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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