Harvard Wins First Poker Tournament Against Rival Yale

Players Hope the Tournament Will Become a Yale-Harvard Tradition Harvard student Jeremy Warshauer came to New Haven, Connecticut, to watch his football team try to bring home the glory against Yale and he ended …

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Mon, November 21st, 2005

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