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In Savannah, not only internet poker is illegal, even land-based gambling is prohibited in most places. One of the best places to play poker here is on the casino boat. Jeff Embry, Manager of the casino boat's poker operations states that the popularity of poker is still growing. He's not surprised by the poker graze. He believes that everybody has the urge to gamble now and then, and all the media attention that the game got, just helped to get it out. Embry adds that not so long ago, he had 15 to 20 people playing poker on the boat. Now, this number is more than doubled. According to Embry, poker reaches everybody; a lot of young people are now especially interested in poker.

Bill Morestad is a life-long poker fanatic, who plays internet poker regularly and is a frequent visitor of the Diamond Casino gambling boat for playing poker and participating in their poker tournaments. He visits the boat at least once a week, and sometimes two to three times a week.

According to gambling experts, the main reasons for the growing number of gambling addicts are online casinos and mostly internet poker. Addiction specialist, Frank Barker, claimed that many card games come and go, but poker will always stay around. Barker believes that offline and internet poker won’t go away, and neither will the addiction problems. He thinks that internet poker is reaching people, who would otherwise never be exposed to any form of gambling. He states that internet poker is one of the most dangerous forms of gambling, since its so hard to stop, when all you need to do is provide a credit card number.