Podcast – guest Bob Nersesian #12
The guest this week is Bob Nersesian. Bob is a frequent guest to the show, and always entertaining. Bob is the lawyer who advocates for the players against the casinos, and has successfully sued many Vegas casinos on the behalf of players. He is also the author of Beat the Players. podcast Click to listen – [...]
False Conclusions
This column was inspired by the following article: fivethirtyeight.com, although the author of that article shouldn’t be blamed for the direction it inspired me to take. The fivetirtyeight.com website, one of my favorites, takes a mathematical and statistical approach to analyzing a number of different types of situations. The particular article cited above looked at [...]
Podcast – guest Michael Craig
Our guest this week is Michael Craig, author of The Professor, The Banker, and the Suicide King. This is a fascinating book about a billionaire who came to Vegas, and played poker with the best players in the world for the highest stakes anyone has ever played for. podcast Click to listen – Alt click [...]
Comparing Video Poker to Basketball
I lived in greater Los Angeles from my birth in 1947 until 1993 when I moved to Vegas. I was a fan of the local sports teams — primarily Dodgers and Lakers, not so much the Angels, Kings, or Ducks. Perhaps 40 years ago I was listening to a Lakers basketball game on the radio. [...]
Podcast – guest Michael Gaughan
The guest on the show this week is Michael Gaughan, owner of the South Point Casino in Las Vegas. We talk with Mr. Gaughan about his father Jackie Gaughan who owned the El Cortez casino in downtown Las Vegas, as well as pieces of many other casinos. podcast Click to listen – Alt click to [...]
Conditional Approval
Most of my readers know that I married Bonnie last May. As in every marriage, you need to learn to adapt to each other’s peculiarities. Bonnie and I are both senior citizens which is good news and bad news. The bad news is that seniors are pretty set in their ways and have had time [...]
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