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 Still, some guys will make snide comments after Albrecht knocks them out
of a tournament.

"There's a few guys who just can't handle it," she said. "Most of them probably
assume right out of the gate that women don't know how to play."

Albrecht played in a ladies-only tournament in January at the Borgata in Atlantic City. She made it through half the field, including some of the top female professionals on the tour.

Right away, she noticed a big difference playing at a table full of women.

"They're very polite about winning," Albrecht says. "If they beat you, they sometimes apologize for it."
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As reported by: Tampa Bay Online:
There was a major buzz in the poker room at Derby Lane in St. Petersburg recently when
a World Series of Poker champ walked in.

Chris Moneymaker, a former accountant from Tennessee turned pro poker player, came to
the greyhound track to play cards and ended up signing autographs like he was a rock star.

Dealers and players wanted cards signed by the 28-year- old, who won $2.5 million in
Las Vegas last year at the World Series of Poker No Limit Hold 'Em Championship.

Among the 120 players in Derby Lane's Texas Hold 'Em tournament were some who wanted to take him on.

"I'm not intimidated .... and it would be great to beat him," said Kevin Doherty, a
bartender from Dunedin who plays poker here a couple days a week.

Moneymaker, in the Tampa area to visit friends, said he rarely plays in small-stakes
games, but he was between big-money tournaments that day so he anted up the $45 entry fee.

Moneymaker didn't make it to the final round, which was won by Debi Steigerwald,
a 37- year-old restaurant owner from Palm Harbor who took home $1,400.

It was a thrill for Steigerwald, who has joined the millions of Americans who have
been turned on to poker. "I watch it on TV all the time," she said. "I even went to
Las Vegas this year to try to qualify for the World Series of Poker."

Fueled by an explosion of televised tournaments and a boom in online gaming, a poker
craze is sweeping the nation.
 

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