Casino-style gambling on university campus? You bet - 2004-03-21
As James Schories walks across the University at Albany campus, he overhears the guys in front of him. Talking poker. "I could tell they were freshmen," he later admits.
Schories is a player. The Staten Island senior plays poker online. With fraternity brothers. Or at Turning Stone casino in poker competitions. He won $550 in three days recently, he claims.
Roughly 4.5 million of the country's 15.3 million college students will gamble on sports this year, according to the National Council on Problem Gambling.
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