Yale Daily News

Updated: Sunday, November 22, 2009 11:46 a.m.

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Eli bucks: Yale gamblers on cards, cash and the ban

Published Friday, December 8, 2006

Anthony likes to talk about how the bills felt in his hand when he first hit the big time playing online poker.

He was a sophomore at the time, with only a year’s worth of experience playing on the internet, but he didn’t get excited when the teller at the Bank of America on Elm Street handed him a thin white envelope packed full of cash. He waited until he was in the parking lot before opening it for inspection. There were 60 bills inside, all of them hundreds. The stack wasn’t excessively large, but it had a pleasant heft to it when he weighed it in his hand. It was the...

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