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Posted by on Sep 27, 2017 in Blog, General Poker, Las Vegas | 3 comments

Memories of the Las Vegas Club

 

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The Las Vegas Club in downtown Las Vegas was a smelly armpit of a casino, coated in a mix of disgusting bodily fluids and cheap booze, the dingy carpets dusted in cigarette ash and I adored every sick square sentimental inch of all that rotten residue and loved blowing every dumb dollar I wasted there.  Here’s my recollection of the joy of tackiness.

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Posted by on Feb 5, 2017 in Blog, Las Vegas, Politics | 1 comment

So, the old miser bailed on the new stadium deal — what’s next Las Vegas Raiders?

 

 

Sheldon Adelson dropped out of the local stadium deal.  That places the NFL’s Oakland Raiders-to-Las Vegas move in jeopardy, or does it?  Look for this stadium to be built — somehow (and the taxpayers will end up paying for it).

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Posted by on May 3, 2016 in Blog, Personal, Sports Betting | 6 comments

Ghosts of Gambling Past

 

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Yes, that’s me.  Age 5.  1967.

I can’t say where and when exactly my infatuation with games of skill and chance first began, but it probably happened inside the crib.  That wasn’t a baby rattler I was shaking.  It was a pair of dice.

This baby needs a new pair of shoes.  Seven out.  Line away.

Here’s a gambling story.

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Posted by on Jan 26, 2016 in Blog, General Poker, Las Vegas | 14 comments

The $188,000-Dollar Bill….What Happened to Binion’s Horseshoe’s Famous Million-Dollar Collection?

 

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When the history of Binion’s Horseshoe does get written, it shall likely be noted that the removal of the famous tourist attraction was one of several nails in the coffin of gambling’s most legendary institutions.

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