Player glowing with victory - 2004-01-31
Poker has actually never been sexy. We tend to see professional poker players as fat, sweaty, middle-aged men, hunkered down around a green felt table, enveloped in a haze of acrid cigar smoke. And one really loud guy in a bolo and cowboy hat — there's always that guy in the cowboy hat.
"When I was 14 or 15, I used to hustle pool," she matter-of-factly shares. "That got me into gambling. I started playing blackjack, and then dealing. And from dealing blackjack, I got into dealing poker in the underground Toronto clubs."
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