Posted by Nolan Dalla on Jan 12, 2014 in Blog, Movie Reviews |

Most futuristic movies deal with macro subjects. Big events like space exploration. Cataclysmic wars. Natural disasters. Hunger games.
Few movies dare to broach what daily life will actually be like for most ordinary people.
Here’s one that does.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Jan 11, 2014 in Blog, General Poker, Las Vegas |

Drinking with Gavin Smith last night
Gavin Smith and I go back many, many years. More cocktails, laughs, and hangovers than I care to remember. Let’s just say I knew Gavin before he became infamous.
Last night, we added another chapter to the encyclopedia of stories you wouldn’t believe.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Jan 11, 2014 in Blog |

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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Jan 10, 2014 in Blog, General Poker, Las Vegas, Personal, World Series of Poker |

with Becky Binion-Behnen in 2003
Read Part 1 HERE.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Jan 9, 2014 in Blog, Las Vegas, Personal |

Today is January 9th, 2014.
Ten years ago today, a Las Vegas landmark was forcibly shut down.
Binion’s Horseshoe, the crumbling ruin of a former empire and the final vestige of the Old West that had once transformed dusty Las Vegas into a neon-lit magnet of vice, shuddered its windows and padlocked its doors.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Jan 8, 2014 in Blog, General Poker |

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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Jan 8, 2014 in Blog, Facing the Firing Squad |

MEET JAN FISHER
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Jan 7, 2014 in Blog, Politics |

Isaac Asimov wrote, “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t shine in.”
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Jan 7, 2014 in Blog, General Poker, Politics |

Why is it such a big deal when a celebrity or athlete (excuse the expression) “comes out of the closet?”
Why is this still somehow regarded as newsworthy? Does the media create these sensations? Or, are some people needlessly calling attention to themselves?
I think these are fair questions.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Jan 6, 2014 in Blog, Movie Reviews |

If not weeping for Woody, then we weep for ourselves for what we’ve become.
It’s we who linger in the abyss and who deserve the pity.
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