The best marketers in the world understand the difference between wants and needs. But how do the online poker rooms stack up?

Poker saved me from a meeting with the worm that lives inside the bottle. It was my one place where alcohol was not the staple ingredient for a good time. It was a deck of cards.

Two things happened in the immediate aftermath of my sobriety. I left the powerful dictator ruining my life and found employment in the poker industry, and started a blog hoping to inspire others to quit alcohol.

The blog turned into an email list.