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...He meticulously documents his WSOP, complete with breakfast recipes, pet dogs’ antics, drives to the casino, naps and, of course, poker....
...Poker Face, an irresistible new “case-of-the-week” comedy, invites us to sit back and enjoy the ride as it follows an amiable drifter solving crimes across America’s highways and hinterlands....
...Perhaps the most influential and amusing portrait of raucous traders was Michael Lewis’s Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street (1989), his memoir of the heyday of Salomon Brothers....
...“These reformed tax rates will replace the existing regime under which casinos pay less tax on poker machines than hotels and clubs.”...
...Křetínský has now been employing a similar strategy across unloved media, retail and infrastructure assets, including a winning offer to bail out the debt-laden French food retailer Casino and talks to buy...
...Dubbed the “Czech Sphinx” for his affinity for privacy and poker-faced investment strategy, Křetínský’s interest in France has attracted similar curiosity....
...Casinos Austria, the state-backed gambling company, has held a monopoly on casino operations since 2016 and Austria’s three highest courts have since ruled that other betting companies are operating illegally...
...Its elegant quietude matches the tone of Bond’s stay on the lake in Casino Royale, where he recuperates from his skirmishes with his poker-playing antagonist Le Chiffre....
...Warren Buffett on Saturday said US financial markets had become “almost totally a casino” as millions of new traders flooded into the financial system during the coronavirus pandemic....
...Picture the scene: one of the world’s biggest high-rollers steps into a casino with an urge to test his luck and skill at the poker table....
...(Chuckle) My family, especially my grandpa, big poker players, card players and horse players....
...My family, especially my grandpa, big poker players, card players and horse players....
...Someone was just telling me before this event that they were told on their first day of work if they hadn’t read Liar’s Poker, they were fired. So, you know, it’s a book that obviously endures....
...Australian casinos collectively banned him and his syndicate members for card-counting....
...The racetrack grandstand, unlike the casino floor, was a place where he could both gamble and spend time with his small grandchildren....
...Why even bother to pretend that a market based around highly volatile speculation and bright-coloured pictures is anything but a casino?...
...Until recently, most FSB regulators and central banks seemed to view crypto assets as being akin to poker chips in a digital casino — that is, tokens that periodically sparked wild dramas at the betting...
...Now clockless and windowless casinos offer a form of ongoing self-imposed incarceration, while outwardly he exudes rock-steady control and confidence — the living embodiment of poker face....
...After all, stablecoins currently act somewhat like the poker chips of a cyber casino. While the tokens are used to make trades within the confines of crypto-land, they can only be used there....
...He started betting on greyhound racing when he was 14, moving on to horses, soccer, hurling, Gaelic football and rugby, plus online poker....
...Offering games of skill rather than chance meant regulators treated FanDuel more leniently than online casino and poker operators....
...Gary Gensler, the Securities and Exchange Commission chair who has called the cryptocurrency sector a “wild west”, last month said stablecoins were “acting almost like poker chips at the casino”....
...BetMGM, the joint venture between the US casino group MGM and UK-listed gambling company Entain, is increasingly challenging for second place in terms of market share....
...She is a high roller who has travelled the world playing blackjack and poker, and deals in sums of money that most only dream of. This isn’t a game for Fiore, it’s her livelihood....
...In August, Flutter said its revenues had jumped by a fifth in the first six months of the year thanks to the pick-up in online casino and poker, while this month GVC upgraded its full-year forecasts for...
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