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Man Stabbed With Fireplace Poker - 2004-01-05
Albuquerque police were conducting an investigation
on an early morning stabbing Monday in which a man was assumed to have been attacked by a neighbor brandishing a fireplace poker.

Police said some neighbors who live on the 8600 block of Gutierrez Northeast got together Sunday night and started drinking. At least two of the neighbors were involved in an argument early Monday morning, officials said.

Police said during the shouting match, one of the men went back to his nearby home, grabbed a fireplace poker, returned to the group and stabbed the other man with the poker.
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Knowing When to Fold 'Em - 2004-01-05
Who would have ever known that my favorite game would be the latest addition to reality TV? Suddenly, poker is bigger than Paris Hilton and the Osbournes combined. (Come to think of it, I suspect it's only a matter of time until some smart cookie puts them together in a cable TV extravaganza. It will be a ratings smash, not to mention the end of western civilization as we have come to know it.)

Shows such as "Celebrity Poker," "World Poker Tours" and "World Series of Poker," have been popping up all over the tube. And, honestly, I don't get it. As a spectator sport, the problem with Texas hold-'em, a version of poker in which each player gets dealt two down cards, with five community cards eventually exposed, is that it is, roughly speaking, 98.47% pure luck.
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