{"id":10739,"date":"2013-05-03T11:33:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T19:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=10739"},"modified":"2013-05-03T11:33:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T19:33:52","slug":"10739","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/10739\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10740\" title=\"Edward G Robinson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Edward-G-Robinson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Edward-G-Robinson.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Edward-G-Robinson-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Edward-G-Robinson-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/>\u201cIt was mostly old guys with cigars. It was very intimidating  to walk into a poker room and see a guy who\u2019s a thousand years old,  smoking 10 packs of cigarettes a day, giving you dirty looks because  you\u2019re taking the wrong card. What online poker did was let  people get familiar with the game, feel a little bit of confidence and  then they said, \u2018I want to go to Vegas and do the real thing.\u2019\u201d &#8212; <em>Dr. <strong>David G. Schwartz<\/strong>, director of UNLV&#8217;s <strong>Center for Gaming Research<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/cdcgamingreports.com\/us-casinos-brace-for-impact-of-internet-gambling\/?doing_wp_cron=1367592496.0000000000000000000000\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">on the debut of legitimized Internet poker<\/a> and its potential impact<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt was mostly old guys with cigars. It was very intimidating to walk into a poker room and see a guy who\u2019s a thousand years old, smoking 10 packs of cigarettes a day, giving you dirty looks because you\u2019re taking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/10739\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10742,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10739\/revisions\/10742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}