Hottest new game is good ol' poker - 2004-01-10
This may be the first time you are reading about poker in 2004, but I promise it won't be the last. The extraordinary growth of the old card game is a story that cannot be told in a single column. Hopefully, this will help whet the appetite.
Just over three years ago, a headline on the front page of the business section of the Las Vegas Review-Journal read, "Poker Rooms on Strip Declining" and that "Harrah's Las Vegas, The Venetian become latest casinos to remove game; both properties cite lack of customer demand."
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