CBS News | Poker Draws And Holds 'Em In | April 11, 2005 17:30:04
CBS News | Poker Draws And Holds 'Em In | April 11, 2005 17:30:04:
It's just another weekday afternoon at Foxwoods Resort Casino and the wait for a seat at a poker table is well over an hour. All 81 tables, all 810 seats at New England's only poker room, are filled.
"Look around. This place is packed," says Mark Whittaker, a home theater installer from Ashland, Mass., who drove an hour and a half to play Texas Hold 'Em but is playing Omaha instead because of the wait. "And it's what, noon on a Wednesday?"
Not too long ago, many gaming executives considered rooms like this to be wasted space. The games are too long and the casino's cut too small to make poker anything but a dud for the bottom line.
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Posted by Jay Brewer at April 25, 2005 8:39 PM
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