Find your poker nickname in seconds

Shades: check.

Poker face: check.

Chip tricks: check.

Now you can add the all-important poker nickname to your list of accoutrements, thanks to this website, where you simply enter your name and a few details of your personality, before being given a choice of aliases fit for any cardroom.

Yours,

Jeff 'The Angst' Prest ( all right, you may need several goes at it...)
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Spin this... Another in the series highlighting those fabulous PR coups that make you rejoice to be a gambler...

"The "Caring Hearts Texas Hold-Em Tournament" was supposed to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society...Besides the charity not getting paid and the winners not receiving prizes, the check for renting the tournament facility bounced" - from Eyewitness News

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HOW INTERNET GAMBLING IS KEEPING WALL STREET RICH A generation of down-on-their-luck brokers are trading in stocks for Plan B — online poker

Your chance for revenge may be closer than you think, recession-dwellers. Now if we can just get a few bank managers to join in...
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I wasn't expecting much change from a million for a plum Vegas pad but this is what 12 large ones buys you on the aptly-named Paradise Road right now.

Best bit is at the bottom of the page, where you get to find out just how much that sets you back in mortgage repayments each month...
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Talking of Sin City, there's a new magazine in town
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