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She Played Cards Right - Online Poker Biz Booms
Jane has won a jackpot in the macho world of online poker. Jane Jack, a
41-year-old Stratford native and former accountant, has been running an
online casinos poker site since last September from a beach home on the tropical
island of Antigua.
It sounds like one of those pie-in-the-sky schemes pitched in spam
e-mails.
But last year, Jack decided to quit her job as a financial controller
with a Cambridge plastics company and play her hand in the booming
business of online poker.
Jack started playing serious poker in the late 1990s in Ontario's
charity casinos.
She said she's a good poker player because she understands the
mathematics of the game and is underestimated by male opponents.
"The poker world is still seen as a man's world and when a woman sits
down at the table, she's seen a pushover."
When online casinos poker sites started popping up on the Internet and televised
poker tournaments featuring celebrities started to draw big ratings,
Jack started thinking about setting up her own site.
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entire article at:
The London Free Press
2004 Online Casino News Archive
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