Posted by Nolan Dalla on Sep 1, 2014 in Blog, Las Vegas, Music and Concert Reviews |

Veronic shares a personal journey. Rather than covering just the female stars, she explains why she loves specific singers and notes what made them so unique as stage performers. I enjoyed this personal perspective, which made me listen to some songs I thought I knew before in entirely different ways.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 31, 2014 in Blog, Personal, Sports Betting |

Rules for Reaching Me During the NFL Season:
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 31, 2014 in Blog, Las Vegas, Travel |

What the fuck is wrong with these people? Oh, and what’s a toddler doing in Las Vegas, anyway?
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 30, 2014 in Blog, Las Vegas, Restaurant Reviews |

Executive Chef Terry Lynch at El Segundo Sol, flanked by two loyal fans
No detail is too small for the master of food and beverage, Terry Lunch. When the famed partner-chef of the much-celebrated Mon Ami Gabi Restaurant (inside Paris Casino) opened El Segundo Sol, which offers highly-customized Mexican fare, he chose his recipes and ingredients carefully.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 29, 2014 in Blog, General Poker, Personal, Sports Betting |

Here’s a fun story from my days working for PokerStars.com, where I served as Director of Communications between 2004-2006. After Hurricane Katrina, we seriously considered making a bid for the NFL’s New Orleans Saints.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 28, 2014 in Blog, Sports Betting |

Looking at the upcoming season’s NFL futures bets that I’ve already put in, I ask myself a simple question.
How can these bets possibly lose money?
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 27, 2014 in Blog, Politics |

I browsed the magazine rack and was astonished to see a stunning number of gun, rifle, shotgun, and ammunition-related publications. No, this display isn’t at a gun show in Alabama. This was a bookstore in Summerlin, an upscale community in west Las Vegas.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 26, 2014 in Blog, Las Vegas, Personal |

Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky,
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same.
There’s a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they’re all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
— Peter Seeger (“Little Boxes” — 1962)
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 25, 2014 in Blog, General Poker, Talking Points, Video 1 |

I promised readers a passionate video montage, taking the opposite side of the current censorship debate about whether or not politics has any place at the poker table.
I say “yes.”
Israeli poker writer Robbie Straznski says “no.”
READ HIS PERSUASIVE VIEWPOINT HERE
Here’s the raw footage of my 38-minute reply to PokerStars’ misguided decision to ban all political expression in their tournaments. In this clip, my response is unrehearsed and often comes across as disjointed. Rambling. Less than stellar. Certainly not my best video. I would have junked it if I didn’t promise delivery. Borrowing an album title from Van Morrison, here’s my “Inarticulate Speech of the Heart.”
But I did agree to post one final summation of my viewpoint in front of the camera, and so here it is.
Run time — approximately 38 minutes. Apologies for butchering Robbie’s name in the opening segment. I also get interrupted a few times by overhead aircraft noise and my 13-year-old tabby, Alex, who makes a reluctant appearance on camera.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 25, 2014 in Blog, Politics |

Senator Harry Reid admits he was wong.
At least, that’s what he says. Now. Well, kinda’.
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