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Show American Poker Rates Most Democratic Game The amount of money people make seems to have considerable bearing on the card games that they play. The popularity of Contract Bridge drops sharply from the richest rich-est to the poorest brackets and Pinochle seems to go the other way. Among those who pay little, if any, income tax. Pinochle gets the call over Bridge. Good old American Poker, which is only a little less popular with Uncle Sam than Auction Bridge, is plenty democratic. It is a diversion diver-sion which appeals to the millionaire million-aire no less Uian to the guy who's doing his bit in an army outfit for a dollar a day. Just as he has for years. Uncle Samuel likes to peel otT his star-studded star-studded tail-coat and try his hand at filling an inside straight which he usually doesn't. Next to Poker, which is a game more often played by men than by women although the gentler sex has a remarkable understanding of the differences between a full house and a bob-tail flush, comes Auction Bridge. For some strange reason Auction is very popular in New Englandparticularly Eng-landparticularly in the lower income in-come groups. It would probably take a smart psychologist to figure this one out. |