There’s a movie called The Hoodlum Priest, but I don’t think it’s about the guy who runs this casino turned church. From the Fresno Bee: Vineyard Casino stirred great hopes of a tax windfall for Fowler when it opened 10 years ago in a big new building on a 13-acre property on the city’s south […]
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gambling & culture, haphazard worldPeople familiar with Vegas for jsut a few years should remember the Maxim. It was a small hotel and casino a few blocks uo Flamingo Road from the MGM Grand (the original) that borrowed much of the MGM’s mirrors and chrome 1970s design. It was never that successful, and was completely gutted before being reincarnated
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life in vegasThe Las Vegas Marathon isn’t until December 10, but you can start training for it today by joining the Roadrunners Training Program. Actually, you could have started yesterday at 6 AM, when training officially kicked off with a 3-mile run. By December 10, doing 26.2 miles will seem like a piece of cake. Well, it
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life in vegasFor a while now, I’ve been wondering if there’s a line on the Scripps National Spelling Bee. I’ve found watching the bee on ESPN strangely compelling, even though I don’t think Texas Hold’em, is in any danger. Well, someone is taking bets on the bee, but you can’t place wagers on individual students. From USA
Here are a few famous books about gambling that I happen to have on my bookshelves, translated into Japanese then retranslated into English: Strike the dealer Come having under the house The probability for me In world book of the largest blackjack Blackjack of dollar of 1000000 And here’s a classic from Robert F. Kennedy,
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writingI’ve updated the pages for Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling to reflect the impending publication date, October 5, 2006, and added tons of information about the book, including an annotated table of contents. You can already pre-order on amazon.com, and I’ll add links to other online booksellers as they become available. In other