Sunday NY Times Magazine 5000 word article on online poker

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Casino poker is great and online poker kills people. Seems well written to me.

At least they put in the real reason for the article at the end.

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online gambling's gray legal status allows operators to avoid paying more than $7 billion a year in federal taxes.

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[Case Closed]

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ahhahahahahaha



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Where did you find that image?

[NoMoreLurking]

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Casino poker is great and online poker kills people. Seems well written to me.

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It would be except they left out the part about state lotteries being REALLY great.

And definitely not gambling; no, they just for fun (and education, yeah, did I mention education?)

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[bills217]

Articles like this scare the crap out of me. I can just imagine Senator Finklebottom reading this with his morning coffee...

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In the stock market, thousands of people lose more than 10X as much as this. There is also tons of crimes associated with this.

Where is the outrage?

[talentdeficit]

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Online, Hogan would play 60 to 100 hands an hour

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hardcore.

[ozyman]

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1.) Instead of helping you to quit playing poker, Gambler's Anonymous teaches you how to recognize fish? WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

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I'm pretty sure that quote/section of the article was grossly distorting the truth. Gambler's Anonymous, as I understand it, does not teach you "b&m gamlbliing is ok, just not online." Or "how to gamble in control." As I understand it, people in GA are told that they have to give up ALL GAMBLING because they have a sickness that they cannot control, and only by completely withdrawing from gambling can they control their behavior. (Much like recovering alcoholics are never again allowed to touch a drop of alcohol).

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From their website:

Can a compulsive gambler ever gamble normally again?

No. The first bet to a problem gambler is like the first small drink to an alcoholic.

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The article says that it was a counselor at Lehigh who said live was ok, but online was evil, not GA.
"Hogan's parents arranged for him to meet with a Lehigh counselor. He was told that live poker was harmless but to stay away from online."

[John Ho]

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The moral is, that kid is a failure at everything he does. He can't win money playing poker and he can't rob a bank without getting caught. He should have got a job at that smoothie shop instead.

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Why? So he can screw up your smoothie order? Better he goes to jail. He's the same guy who can't put the right number of pickles on your hamburger either.

[John Ho]

"When I spoke with an online hold-'em player from Florida who had lost a whopping $250,000 online, he told me: "It fried my brain. I would roll out of bed, go to my computer and stay there for 20 hours. One night after I went to sleep, my dad called. I woke up instantly, picked up the phone and said, 'I raise. "

You gotta be kidding me. The reporter just made that up.

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"When I spoke with an online hold-'em player from Florida who had lost a whopping $250,000 online, he told me: "It fried my brain. I would roll out of bed, go to my computer and stay there for 20 hours. One night after I went to sleep, my dad called. I woke up instantly, picked up the phone and said, 'I raise. "

You gotta be kidding me. The reporter just made that up.

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Whatever foolio the reporter interviewed probably made it up, as well as the $250,000 loss.