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A new phenomenon in the online poker world: College students playing it like the pros. But aren't the college kids supposed to be going to classes, attending frat parties, and drinking beer? Wasn't online poker supposed to be geared towards the middle-aged crowd? Not anymore, it seems. Television has helped to spread the popularity through coverage of numerous poker tournaments. The internet has more online poker rooms now than ever before. And on top of all this, companies have lately been aggressively spreading their marketing audience to younger age groups.

If you want to narrow down the reasons to the sudden surge in college-aged online poker players, then you can rest at this explanation: What better way to pay off tuition loans than through the small, steady gains in online poker rooms? Companies have taken advantage of this by employing tournaments with scholarship prizes; the winner goes home with a good amount of money to pay off his college loans. Some are worried about these college-age players turning into gambling addicts, but it hasn't seemed to stop the growing number of tough student players.

• You swiftly lose all your cash and find yourself out of the tournament.
• You hang in for awhile, but eventually let the pressure get to you and make bad bets until you run out of money and end up a sullen bystander.
• You play brilliantly, adjusting your strategy to the different stages of tournament play and win big.

Thursday Night Poker: How to Understand, Enjoy and Win

Play the hand you’re dealt – and win! Intended for the serious weekly-to-monthly player, Thursday-Night Poker will save players hundreds of dollars over the course of a single year with chapters on: • Calculating probabilities and estimating odds • Bluffing and avoiding being bluffed • How to read your opponent’s down cards • Leaning without losing • How to avoid being the second-best hand With illustrated, in depth-discussion of nearly fifty hands, and chapters on 5-card stud, 7-card Hi-Lo, Holdem, Omaha, and others, Thursday-Night Poker is a safe wager on much better – and winning! – poker. “Forger the casinos; it’s all here. Win from your pals on Thursday nights. Steiner deals with more than the odds, he elucidates process with clarity and intelligence, and he is particularly good on the intricacies of 7-card Hi-Lo. You do not want to sit down and play with someone who’s read this book unless you’ve read it yourself.” - FRANK CONROY “Perhaps the clearest way to express my admiration for this landmark treatise on the game of poker is to say, without equivocation, that on no Thursday night henceforth, nor on any other night of the week, will you catch me sitting down to play cards with it’s author.” - ANTHONY HOLDEN, author of Big Deal: A Year as a Professional Poker Player