Poker pro offers game tips

There may be no better example that gambling continues to grow as a leading recreation for adults than the poker boot camp on Wednesday at the San Manuel Indian Bingo & Casino.That’s right, a camp for adults to spend $500 for a day of learning from esteemed poker pro Annie Duke.

It was a bill to pay for Josh Woods, a 25-year-old San Bernardino man who has been playing poker in casinos for about a year.

“I was losing a lot of money at poker so I thought, `Why not spend some money to learn that I’d just lose instead,”‘ Woods said.

It was only a few hours into the camp and Duke had already filled the heads of Woods and 15 others with a dizzying amount of game theories and mathematical concepts - and they all loved it.

“She’s looking at it from angles that I didn’t even know were relevant,” Woods said.

It might seem that $500 is a lot to spend on a poker education, but poker clearly has come a long way.

Read More?