Who Dealt This Mess?

November, 1974

Who Dealt This Mess?Whither Poker?Glad you put it that way. Poker needs a little classing up from time to time. Roulette can summon an image of exiled duchesses laying slender stacks of chips on rouge as the wheel spins; baccarat may make you think of pale heirs in white tie murmuring "Banco." With poker, thanks mostly to Westerns, you tend to think of a saloon table encircled by lice-ridden, scruffy-looking men, most of whom accompany cattle for a living.For the record, however, poker...