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A return to the casinos

By Jay Lovinger
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Maybe it's some weird version of the Stockholm Syndrome that afflicts housebound poker writers, but after my first trip to a live casino in months – and despite a long, well-chronicled losing streak playing online – I have to admit that online poker has it all over the brick-and-mortar version. (For those of you unfamiliar with the Stockholm Syndrome, it refers to the propensity of victims of kidnappers, terrorists and the like to come to have sympathy for their captors while under th ...

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