Athletes and high-stakes gambling is so common that I don't even know why we're making a big deal out of A-Rod visiting a casino. The "alleged" illegal games with guns and coke are one thing, but Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, John Daly, etc... Gambled a lot and it never caused this kind of reaction. Maybe it's because our media coverage is all-encompassing now, I don't know. It makes sense that these super competitive, amazingly rich, young athletes would spend their free time playing poker. I'm a moderately competitive, amazingly poor, young student and I play whenever I have the chance.
