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Poker's taking over the world

By Darren Rovell
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Tuesday, July 6, 2004

I was waiting by my phone all day to hear back from guys like Phil Hellmuth, Chris Moneymaker and Phil Ivey. But in my heart, I knew the phone would never ring. After all, the odds of a top poker player returning your call these days is roughly equivalent to the odds that you'll die from a venomous spider bite. (One out of every 738,585 Americans do, according to the National Safety Council.) That's how untouchable today's poker players are. We live in an America where approximately 20 mill ...

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