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The kid from Brisbane was twenty-seven, drove a Lamborghini, owned a house with a moat. He ran the money for the whole online poker world and nobody knew his face. Then Las Vegas knew it. Then New York knew it. The story is not about poker. It is about a boy who moved too much money too quickly and forgot that money leaves footprints.
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Celebrities5 min read
Benny Binion is the single most influential casino operator of the twentieth century. That is my hot take and I will defend it. Not Steve Wynn, not Howard Hughes, not Kirk Kerkorian. Binion. The Dallas bootlegger with a sixth-grade education who invented the modern poker tournament.
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Regulation4 min read
A night at a provider booth in the ICE London expo, where the carpet smells like static electricity and fresh coffee, and somebody in a lanyard is explaining, at 3am (why am I still here), that his company holds eleven jurisdictional supplier licences, each with its own paperwork, each with its own unhappy auditor. The story tries to leave without him.
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Big Wins5 min read
Famous bluffs get mythologised the same way a casino bonus gets mythologised: confidently, and with the boring bits removed. Here are four of the most cited hands, translated from legend into what actually happened at the table, including the part where the winning player got extremely lucky.
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Big Wins5 min read
Patricia DeMauro's 2009 roll at the Borgata lasted four hours, eighteen minutes, and is the longest in the documented history of casino craps. The record is usually celebrated for its unlikelihood. What it tells us about near-miss effects and the psychology of streak-based games is more useful, and harder to see.
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