Friday, June 04, 2004
Magic Players in World Series of Poker Final Table
From the Slate article:
Cool! I've been watching the poker on TV and I'm oddly fixated by it. It seems like something I should be good at. But I downloaded a Palm poker game and went broke over and over again - but I still want to play for real.
Dan Harrington dropped the poker face as he shuffled out of the 35th World Series of Poker last Friday. Forget that the pasty, 58-year-old, Boston-raised pro had just won $1.5 million by finishing fourth in the world's premier Texas Hold 'Em tournament. The former World Series champion, with his unbent green Red Sox cap pulled low and mouth turned down, looked like someone had just killed his dog. The truth was even worse: Harrington, the last remaining professional poker player in the tournament, had been outplayed by a 23-year-old college student.
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Most of the newcomers were youngfour of the nine players at the final table were under 30. Two even honed their card-playing skills by mastering the consummately nerdy game Magic: The Gathering.
Cool! I've been watching the poker on TV and I'm oddly fixated by it. It seems like something I should be good at. But I downloaded a Palm poker game and went broke over and over again - but I still want to play for real.
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