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Article: Weak hand: journalists can make today's geeky poker players seem interesting. They just can't make them heroes.(On Political Books)(Jonny Magic and the Card Shar Kids: How A Gang of Geeks Beat the Odds and Stormed Las Vegas)(Book Review)
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- The Washington Monthly
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- September 1, 2005
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Jonny Magic and the Card Shar Kids: How A Gang of Geeks Beat the Odds and Stormed Las Vegas By David Kushner Random House, $24.95
If there was any lingering doubt about the cultural ascendancy of Texas Hold-Em poker, it was erased in June when The New York Times announced the debut of its very own regular poker column. Although the Gray Lady is decidedly less popular than racing forms and Playboys in the card rooms of Vegas, Reno, and Tunica, Miss, she will still take notice of burgeoning popular pastimes if the plebeians make enough noise--and apparently she has heard the thunderous kshhhh of a million decks being shuffled. "Whoever wants to know the heart and ...