Poker 2.0

Our own true Paul Phillips is the subject of the lead graf of Business 2.0's article on the "computer jocks and math whizzes" who comprise the new breed of poker players:

Don't rush, Paul Phillips tells himself. Even when you're burning up under the television lights, $1.5 million in poker chips is at stake, and you're facing one of the most feared players in the world – an old Texas road gambler named T.J. Cloutier, who has just opened the betting with $60,000.

Unfortunately, the first three grafs are all you get, unless you happen to be a Business 2.0 subscriber – and who wants to pay money to read fatuous New Economy cheerleading? Your other alternative is to go to a newsstand and buy a copy of the November 2003 issue. (That's so twentieth-century. But then, so is fatuous New Economy cheerleading....)