“Jay Koeller’s wife, Judy, is the woman of many men’s fantasies: she encouraged her husband to take up poker. After watching a winner pocket $1 million on a TV tournament five years ago, “she said, ‘You can do that,’ ” says Koeller, 63. “So little by little, I started learning poker, and I found I was good at it.”
Good enough that last year the Melbourne, Fla., resident took the $14,700 second-place money in a tournament—an online tournament, that is.
Koeller, a retired paint contractor, is among the growing number of people age 50-plus visiting the Internet to play poker, slots, roulette and bingo. National statistics on their prevalence aren’t available. But as the percentage of people ages 50 to 64 using computers has grown—from less than 40 percent in 2000 to 69 percent in 2006—so has the share of older people’s calls to gambling hotlines regarding addiction issues with Internet play. In the last three years, for example, that share has risen from 8 percent to 13 percent for the Florida Compulsive Gambling Hotline…”
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