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I just got a new book called Poker and Philosophy edited by Eric Bronson, a philosphy professor at Berkeley College in New York City. He co-edited The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy (2003) and edited Baseball and Philosophy (2004). The book…
News out of Washington University in St. Louis about a recent topic here on PokerMoments… addiction to gambling. First some numbers…. 80% plus of people gamble, while 1.8% have a disorder of pathological gambling. I’ve previously written about symptoms of mild gambling addiction. More serious addiction…
[Editor’s Note: Ryan is the author of YogaWisdom and was asked to write a guest blog post for our “Poker & Religion” series] Poker is many things. It can be big business, a raging addiction, the making of a millionaire, or the…
I had two unpleasant poker experiences yesterday. I lost all my free money ($10 – no deposit required), plus about $12 in winnings, at Crazy Poker, and I placed somewhere around 2500 out of 9000 entrants in a freeroll tournament at Poker…
What would happen if Mrs. Bush became a peace-nik while George sent more and more $$ to Halliburton? Or Mrs. Bill Gates started doing commercials for the Mac? Well, my husband, who posts here, has become nearly addicted to online poker this…
Today it was brought to my attention that eBay is supporting Rep. Goodlatte’s attempt to ban online gambling. In a very informative article from Radley Balko I read about the reasons to why they are doing that. As a result thereof, I…
Yesterday my wife told me that she might submit a post to PokerMoments about poker and Quakerism. She’s a Quaker, and I remember her once telling me that Quakers don’t believe that playing the lottery is ethical. Perhaps they have similar views…