Within the party industry, “casinos are the big thing,” says Tracy Nguyen, director of sales and marketing for the Sterling, Va.-based Entertainment Connection. Over the last two years, poker has increasingly become the centerpiece of family game nights, birthday parties, bar mitzvahs, post-prom bashes, even weddings. Ask their parents, and they’ll marvel that TVs and video game consoles are gathering dust. POKER isn’t allowed in school, so eighth-grade would-be card sharks ditch telltale chips, gather at lunch and use push-ups as currency: “I see your five push-ups and raise you 15.” Faced with the same dilemma, high schoolers bet bags of potato chips and cookies from their lunches, or toothpicks that they can quickly stuff into their pockets if the principal happens along.Īsk any teens or tweens and they’ll tell you poker is in.
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