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ElSapo
07-10-2003, 10:07 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/10/technology/circuits/10poke.html?pagewanted=1
Dynasty
07-10-2003, 01:10 PM
You'll have to post the article itself if you want us to read it. Most of us don't subscibe to the New York Times.
Homer
07-10-2003, 01:21 PM
It's free to register. Also, I don't know if they would appreciate an entire article being cut and paste onto this forum.

-- Homer
Your Mom
07-10-2003, 01:48 PM
It'll take a whole 30 seconds to register. I'm sure you can manage.
rkiray
07-10-2003, 03:12 PM
2+2 would like it even less. It's called copyright infrignement.
SittingBull
07-10-2003, 04:46 PM
sam h
07-10-2003, 04:50 PM
"Mr. Wilson spoke almost wistfully about the days in the early 1990's when card rooms first opened in California and began offering Texas Hold'em. 'The games were crazy and loose," he said. "The games were wild. There were very few people who understood the game. Then the real turkeys ran out of money and stopped playing. They got smarter and started understanding the more subtle areas of the game.'"

Whoever knew that cardrooms first came to California in the 1990s? Or that poker in California is no longer "crazy and loose?"

All in all, a pretty pathetic article that took a nifty sounding theme - computers are revolutionizing poker! - and then failed to really investigate it.
Jeffage
07-11-2003, 07:00 AM
Well, it's partially right. I don't know the date it was allowed, but cardrooms in CA could initially only offer forms of draw poker (5-card, lowball, etc). Hold Em and Stud came much later and from what I hear the games were extremely good at the start.

Jeff
sam h
07-11-2003, 11:07 AM
I don't know for sure, but I think it was the late 70s or early 80s when Holdem began to be spread. Before my time, but that's what I think I read somewhere. I'm pretty sure it wasn't the 90s. And legal cardrooms certainly opened in California much earlier, in Gardena in the 1960s I believe.

Either way, it's just a shoddy job of fact-checking. Which makes me wonder about other stories in newspapers that I just tend to take at face value.
M.B.E.
07-13-2003, 07:23 PM
For some reason if you link through Google News, registration is not required:

http://news.google.com/news?q=nytimes+billings+moneymaker+poker
M.B.E.
07-13-2003, 07:36 PM
Also the article has been reprinted on other online news sites, such as the International Herald Tribune:

http://www.iht.com/articles/102496.html