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Lawyer: Tribe has no rights on poker - 2004-02-09
The attorney involved in the 2000 state Supreme Court case to bar video poker claims the Catawba Indian Nation cannot legally operate the machines on reservation land in York County.

Columbia attorney Richard Gergel's four-page document contradicts conclusions reached in two previous analyses of the tribe's controversial claim to video poker rights.

"A review of controlling law ... demonstrates that the Catawbas have no greater right to operate video gambling devices than any other persons or entities in the state," Gergel wrote.
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Power From Poker - 2004-02-09
Barry Greenstein won $1.2 million at the World Poker Open in Tunica, Miss., on Jan. 29. The tournament will be aired on the Travel Channel at 8 p.m. on April 21, and again at 5 p.m. April 24.

Barry was playing poker. Thirteen years old and the kid was cleaning up in five-card draw and seven-card stud. He was beating juniors and seniors, college boys. He was walking home on a typical night with another $30 in his pocket, maybe $50.

Barry was a genius. We knew that. He got every math question right on the ACT and SAT. He came up with science fair projects most of us couldn't even understand -- like his paper on "the natural logarithm base e."
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