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Change Your Game as Your Opponents Change - 2004-01-22
Whether you choose to thank Steve Lipscomb and Chris Moneymaker, or the Travel Channel and ESPN (with shows like Bravo’s new Celebrity Poker Challenge helping to keep the momentum going), you have most likely never seen so many inexperienced players, no matter what limits you chose to play.

These television shows are, for the time being at least, changing poker, and you’ll find your results improving if you change along with it. Except for the localized phenomena that one sees when live poker moves into a town for the first time, poker has never experienced a time when so many new players were coming into games at the same time.
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Gambling Support Fund Drought - 2004-01-22
The State Government has 'duped' Western District residents over gambling support funds, according to the member for Western Province.

Mr Vogels said $123.9 million were lost on poker machines throughout the Western District during the past four years but just $900,000 or less than one per cent of the total was returned to the region through the Community Support Fund (CSF).

The CSF was established under the Kennett Liberal government as a way of putting money spent on gaming machines back into the community to help assist people with gambling problems.
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