April 2011 - T.R Napper

Poker

Poker’s Black Friday: the US Bans Online poker

On Friday, 15 April, the US Department of Justice swooped. The three biggest online poker sites in the world – Fulltilt Poker, Pokerstars and Ultimate Bet, were closed to American players and their online accounts seized. In the Federal indictment, …

Poker

Spitting, Screaming, Spewing: Poker in Macau

I was certain she was dead, this ancient Chinese woman in the aisle across from me. Cadaver-like, easily over a hundred years old, hands bent into gnarled claws. She was shrunk back deep, deep into the seat, glazed eyes staring

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Sport

Derby Does Canberra: an Introduction to Roller Derby

The sounds of the contest rises to a fever pitch – the roar of the crowd joins the simultaneous stomping of feet on the wooden floor, the thuds of body ramming into body and those bodies hitting the hard gymnasium …

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