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Nazarian out to make Sahara less of a desert
If I'm being profiled in the Wall Street Journal as the potential saviour of a fading Vegas casino, I'd want the kind of portrait they've given Sam Nazarian, new owner of the down-at-heel Sahara Hotel & Casino (where...eeek..."life-size Arab figu...
This is why it's called 'poker', not 'patience'...
Just when I thought that seeing the first 'book now for Xmas' sign of the year would take today's biscuit in the wishing-your-life-away category, the restaurant in question was trumped completely by this:Bodog hands out 2009 Main Event seatsCalvin Ay...
"Who Dat?" final table lands Pollack gamble
I went through the full rainbow of opinion when I learnt that the WSOP Main Event was to be played in two instalments this year.My immediate response was to hate the notion of eventus interruptus as an artificial contrivance that flew in the face of ...
Reading-room Friday at Wagering War
Remember when it was end of term at school, your teacher had admin to sort and you were told to bring a book to class and just read quietly until the lesson ended? It's like that now.I'm fishing in Scotland as part of my day job and under orders to g...
Everything on red - Russian gambling update
It was just before Christmas 2006 when I reported on Russian leader Vladimir Putin's efforts to effectively drive gambling out of harm's way by confining it to four far-flung and not-exactly-gorgeous areas of his nation. Two of the pictorial links no...
