Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 7, 2015 in Blog, Politics |

At times fascinating as an overflowing toilet, at other times utterly cringe-worthy, and often intimately revealing as to the true character of each of the candidates.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 6, 2015 in Blog, Politics |

Opponents of the Iran nuclear deal are the same fanatics who gave us two pointless wars and $3 trillion of national debt.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 5, 2015 in Blog, Politics |

Most of those who tune into this Thursday night’s first-of-many Republican presidential political bonfires debates will do so for all the wrong reasons.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 4, 2015 in Blog, General Poker |

Jennifer Shahade, a two-time United States Women’s Chess Champion, and now the winner of BARGE XXV
This past week, I attended BARGE 2015, held in Las Vegas.
B.A.R.G.E. is actually an acronym meaning “Big August Recreational Gambling Excursion,” a name sounding a bit pompous and pretty like a weekend gambling junket, which I’m told is precisely what it once was when it first began 25 years ago.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Jul 27, 2015 in Blog, Las Vegas, Personal, Politics |

James Randi, a.k.a. “The Amazing Randi” (left) onstage with activist, lecturer, and magician Jamy Ian Swiss (right)
Last weekend, I attended “The Amazing Meeting,” also known as TAM 2015.
It was amazing!
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Jul 25, 2015 in Blog, General Poker, Personal |

Following PART 1 and PART 2, here’s the story of my favorite dinner of the 2015 World Series of Poker, in other words — my top choice out of 51 such engagements. There’s also a brief interlude of thanks to some friends who presented me with various gift bottles of wine and assorted liquors, which sufficiently swayed me enough to write positive things about them here.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Jul 21, 2015 in Blog, General Poker, Politics |

Is there anything Trent Lott won’t do for a fast buck?
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Jul 20, 2015 in Blog, Personal, Restaurant Reviews |

Continuing the countdown from the previous article (READ HERE).
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Jul 18, 2015 in Blog, Music and Concert Reviews |

There are precious instants in life when you know you’re on the right track.
Today included one of those savored personal moments.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Jul 17, 2015 in Blog, Personal |

Oh, What a Night! An amazing cast of poker characters — including Tony Hachem, Shane Warne, Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer, Joe Hachem, Brian Rast, Daniel Negreanu, Antonio Esfandiari, and his Dad, me on the bottom left, and lots of other cool people, too. At the SECOND BEST dinner I attended at the 2015 WSOP What was the best? Read on.
Between May 26 and July 15, I worked 51 consecutive days and nights at the 2015 World Series of Poker. These moments were the best of those days and nights.
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