| | |  | Last Updated: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 |  | | | Poker Tops Nationwide College Gambling
- Thursday, 5 Jan 2006
Gambling has become one of college student’s favorite past time activities. Some students indulge in poker gambling for recreational purposes while others approach it as a source of income. Students everywhere play poker at online casinos and dorm rooms to cover their expenses and pay for their tuition. Some online gambling sites are conducting poker tournaments where the winners are awarded wit scholarships, covering one semester’s tuition. In order to participate in these tournaments, you need to prove to the online casino that you are in fact a registered student.
Once a pastime for cowboys in Wild West saloons, poker is now positioned at the forefront of a gambling craze that has swept colleges nationwide. Elizabeth George, chief executive of the North American Training Institute, which specializes in dealing with problems of youth gambling comments, “The popularity of poker is absolutely phenomenal. It is head and shoulders over other types of college gambling”. Half of college men say they have gambled on cards at least once a month this year, up from 45% in 2004, according to a study released in September by the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center
About 15% of them played at least once a week in 2005, up from 2% in 2002. Only 1.6% of college women said they played weekly this year. Dan Romer, director of the Annenberg survey says, “Gambling has become a more mainstream activity. Younger people are more prone to addiction than older people. Some kids who play will get hooked”. | |
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