Phil Names Best and Worst Celebrity Players

Filed under: Celebrities , Odds & Ends , Professionals So who does Phil Gordon think are the best and the worst celebrity poker players out there? According to this article , the title for the worst belongs to …

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Fri, November 18th, 2005

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  • Gambling is Often Legalized to Promote Economic Development of Depressed Areas. That was an important motivation in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, New Jersey, and many of the other locales for casinos.
  • In 1973, the Commission on the Review of National Policy toward Gambling was created to study gambling in the United States.
  • The term "turned the tables" is actually a chess term coming from the mid 1600's. When a player was losing, they would physically turn the chess table to assume the winning side of the table.
  • In 1911, the state of California ruled that "draw" poker was a skill, and thus could not be banned under existing anti-gambling laws. However, "Stud" poker was still considered illegal at the time.