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Breaking News!!! Online poker decreases your stress levels. While this is the opinion of any person who has every accessed an poker site, it took a team of nerdy types at McGill University’s research department – you know the ones who walk around with clip boards and long white coats – to tell us this week that there is scientific evidence that your cortisols, aka stress hormones, take a nose dive when you play poker online. Talk about an AHA moment…! The amazing thing is that this isn’t the only scientific research run on casino gambling and poker by a prestigious university. To think that these guys get funding of millions to tell us what we already know. Can you just imagine their next study? You’ll see little lab rats lined up in front of iPod size laptops fervently playing online slots and the McGill guys will write a 1000 page report at doctorate level that slots tap into the fun side of our brain….

So, John is a keen poker player who loves his weekly games with his friends, especially since it means a few hours away from his nagging wife. One night he finishes up his game and arrives home, to be met –as usual – by Gertrude. “Where have you been? Why so late?” she began her regular nagging session. John replied: “Gertrude. I’m sorry to tell you but I lost you in the poker game tonight. You’re going to have to leave. Gertrude goes red in the face and yells: “How did you manage that, you fool?” John replies: “It wasn’t easy. I had to fold a Royal Flush!”