let's get the facts straight: poker makes money

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More important, poker is the way young men (and women) are now introduced to gambling, in the US

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Don't be so sure that this is different than in the past.ii can't think of a gambling game I playe3d before I played poker (maybe I flipped baseball cards first but it would be close) As a small child I and my friends knew draw poker. As I got older we learned stud. I remember my first trip to a casino (it was with a couple of guys who I regularly played poker with) we didn't even think of poker on that trip. It wasn't till years later that I starte dto equate poker with caasino poker.

I would venture to guess that is a very common experience.

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This hints at something else that poker players miss. Even though they make money from a poker player they might still not want them there. In a busy time poker players might take up hotel rooms so now if a slot player wants to come there they can't because the hotel is booked. Or maybe there is a tournament about to start so valet parking is backed up so the slot player drives on down the street.