The lucrative world of casino gambling is the subject of not insignificant study. Not only do casinos want to know what their clientele is like, but districts want to know what kind of tourism a prospective casino will attract.

Hinch and Walker (2005) found that the tourists from Alberta, Canada who travelled to casinos were primarily female. ( Read more... )

In Women & Men, Venus & Mars: Poker Profits and Sexual Politics, Steve Badger makes the unsubstantiated claim that "women as a group play poker more successfully than men do" -- not that women don't lose, but that they tend to lose less. His argument that women are less likely to take stupid risks holds up to common wisdom, but I wondered if any ( Read more... )