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Note to Self: Don't Rob Bank to Pay Online Poker Debts
Somewhere in a hectic schedule that included being president of his Lehigh University sophomore class, playing second-chair cello in the university orchestra and working at the chaplain's office, Greg Hogan developed a secret habit.
For 14 months the polite, energetic finance and accounting double major from an affluent Ohio suburb used online poker to blow off steam.
But the hobby quickly became an addiction that led Hogan to lose about $5,000.
It was that addiction that led him last week into a Wachovia bank in Allentown, where he handed a teller a note and calmly walked out with $2,871 that wasn't his, says his lawyer, John J. Waldron.
Allentown police said Hogan confessed to the robbery.
Now the 19-year-old son of a Baptist minister faces up to 20 years in prison on bank robbery charges, and his lawyer says the nationwide poker craze is partly to blame.

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