{"id":22852,"date":"2018-11-07T09:17:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T17:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=22852"},"modified":"2018-11-07T09:17:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T17:17:38","slug":"case-bets-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/case-bets-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Bets"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Nevada<\/strong>‘s Nye County<\/strong>, 70% of the electorate voted to elect a dead pimp to the Nevada Assembly<\/strong>. I guess this means that the GOP<\/strong> is going to have to unearth Dennis Hof<\/strong>‘s rotting corpse and prop it up in a statehouse chair this spring. Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth …<\/p>\n

Chalk up two more wins for the Culinary Union<\/strong>, which finally was able to hammer out deals with Derek Stevens<\/strong>‘ Golden Gate<\/strong> and The D<\/strong>. No details were made public, the contracts are tentative, blah, blah, blah. You know the drill<\/a>. It took a while but the Culinary has every casino it negotiated with in the fold, 33 in all. Well done.<\/p>\n

* Did you know poker is illegal in Israel<\/strong>? I sure didn’t. Likud Party<\/strong> member Sharren Haskel<\/strong> has introduced legislation<\/a> to legitimize the sport. As things stand now, if you’re caught playing poker you can be sentenced to a year in the pokey. And if you’re a tournament organizer they throw the book at you: three years in the slammer. Supreme Court<\/strong> Judge Neal Hendel<\/strong> recently opined,\u00a0\u201cThe fact that the players go to contests and tournaments year after year strengthens the conclusion that it is not a game of luck.\u201d Passage of Haskel’s bill would mean that Israeli poker virtuosi Timur Margolin<\/strong> and Amir Lehavot<\/strong> could play in their own country. But where does Sheldon Adelson<\/strong> stand on the issue and will the Knesset<\/strong> listen to him?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Nevada‘s Nye County, 70% of the electorate voted to elect a dead pimp to the Nevada Assembly. I guess this means that the GOP is going to have to unearth Dennis Hof‘s rotting corpse and prop it up in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[151,155,51,26,22,189],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22852"}],"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=22852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22864,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22852\/revisions\/22864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}