Poker in the News

If any of you have been out shopping for Christmas yet this year, you will no doubt have noticed that poker sets and "gambling" accessories are everywhere. Just the other day I was in Sears, and there was a mother and father buying a casino set for one of their little ones. The set had a craps board, roulette wheel, poker chips and cards, dice, an inflatable pit boss, some call girls, and two packs of candy cigarettes.

The casinos must be loving this. It's one thing to buy your kids poker sets--- it's quite another to buy them a "gambling set". I think that poker can actually be educational, but there is nothing good about learning craps or roulette.

Anyway--- that's what this article is about... Nancy Petry, director of the Gambling Addiciton Treatment and Research Center recommends that parents "think twice before encouraging their kids to gamble".

It's ground-breaking stuff. Sometimes I think that you need a Ph.D. in order to say the obvious and have it be news worthy.

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