Posted by Nolan Dalla on Feb 7, 2014 in Blog, Politics |

Did you hear about the recent legal decision in Missouri?
Flashers are now protected by free speech laws.
According to a federal judge in St. Louis, flashing in public is permitted by the First Amendment. Laws prohibiting flashing violate the individual right to free speech.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Feb 6, 2014 in Blog, Personal |

Axl Rose and I have something in common.
We both turn 52-years-old today.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Feb 5, 2014 in Blog |

What if the modern media were around in ancient times?
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Feb 4, 2014 in Blog, General Poker |

Call me biased.
When I first came into poker as a writer, the year was 1993. Live poker had just been legalized in Atlantic City. That’s when I started writing for Card Player magazine, which was pretty much the only publication covering the game at the time.
Well, we’ve certainly come a long way in the last two decades.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Feb 4, 2014 in Blog, Rants and Raves |

Been to a shopping mall lately?
Talk about hell on earth!
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Feb 3, 2014 in Blog |

Another senseless death. Another wasted talent.
What’s the appropriate reaction when something like this happens?
Shock? Certainly. Sadness? Absolutely. Outrage? Yeah, probably. Confusion? Yes.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Feb 2, 2014 in Blog, Sports Betting |

Here are twenty things we learned from this year’s Super Bowl:
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Feb 2, 2014 in Blog, General Poker, Las Vegas |

Let’s make one thing clear.
Steve Wynn was in favor of online gambling long before he opposed it. Big time. As in so enthusiastically in favor of online gambling (and poker specifically) that he once signed up for a strategic business partnership with PokerStars.com. You remember PokerStars, don’t you? The world’s largest online poker site based over on the Isle of Man?
Now it appears Wynn has changed his mind. Again.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Feb 2, 2014 in Blog, Sports Betting |

You know Alex.
He’s our 12-year-old ginger boy, adopted from a homeless shelter in Washington, D.C. when he was a kitten. He’s the only cat in history to have played a hand of poker at the old Binion’s Horseshoe, which happened a few months before the place closed down.
Alex is retired now and living comfortably in Las Vegas. He spends most of his life sleeping.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Feb 1, 2014 in Blog, General Poker |

Sheldon Adelson is one of the world’s richest people. He’s the majority owner of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, which owns and operates The Venetian. He’s become online poker’s most outspoken opponent, launching what amounts to a smear campaign of lies and gross misrepresentations against online gaming, and poker players. Adelson has even gone as far as to claim poker is not a game of skill. “Just a bunch of baloney,” he says.
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