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To be totally fair, I think one of the points he's getting at is how the TV poker thing has taken over much of the young kids who would normally be doing other, "more productive" things, such as participating in sports.

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Although I tend to agree that gambling could become an issue for many teens if their parents aren't careful and look for the signs of a problem, I don't suscribe to the theory that kids are playing poker instead of doing more athletic things. If they weren't playing poker, tey would be playing Halo or Madden or looking at internet porn or doing whatever other non-athletic things kids were doing 2 years ago.