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Las Vegas Life Lessons With Starbucks

Blogs, Blogging, and Podcasts, Las Vegas, Political and Social Awareness, Sin City
Posted August 21st, 2008 by Christopher - Add comment

For a few years now I’ve been reading the back of Starbucks cups… you know the ones – “The Way I See It #123″ or whatever, right? Well, usually I find myself going, “uhm, okay..” Tonight I finally got one that I thought was interesting.. There has to be a Las Vegas Life Lesson in here somewhere:

The Way I See It #112

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Guest Column: Nick the Ex-Cabbie – “Las Vegas VIP Poker Party: The Artisan Hotel Aftermath”

Guest Columnists, Hotels, Las Vegas, Nick the Cabbie, Nightlife, Sin City, Special Events, Vices
Posted August 18th, 2008 by Nick the Cabbie - 1 comment

The story of the actual party is for anyone brave enough to tell it. This came later:

It’s probably about four in the morning and I’m sitting at the bar in The Artisan Hotel off the Strip in Las Vegas with a self-proclaimed stripper and some guy that I just met a few hours ago. The girl says, “Seriously, my tits are fake. Look – you can see the scars.” She pulls herself almost completely out of her top to show me. The guy is on a mission to acquire some girl for what’s left of the night and the girl that I’m talking to doesn’t seem to be his flavor.

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World Series of Poker – A Special Las Vegas VIP Party

Casinos and Gambling, Hotels, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Entertainment, Nevada, Nightlife, Sin City
Posted July 3rd, 2008 by Christopher - 1 comment

Artisan King SuiteThe World Series of Poker’s Main Event – the $10,000 buy-in No Limit Texas Hold’em Tournament that bears the title of World Champion – kicks off today with the first of four “Day One’s.” There are so many players in this monster of a tournament nowadays that they simply can not hope to fit them all into one space on the same day so they just break it down into multiple first days.

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My Vote For Poker Player of the Year

Casinos and Gambling, Las Vegas, Nevada, Sin City
Posted July 19th, 2007 by Christopher - Add comment

Being a hardcore, dyed-in-the-wool poker player at heart myself, of the stories I’ve heard come out of the World Series of Poker this year, there is only one that speaks of pure dedication to such a noble cause as the game of life we know as “poker” and could earn my vote for Poker Player of the Year… Paul Clark’s story.

Here is a guy – a professional player – who takes the game so seriously that while he’s in competition for the title of Razz World Champion – final table, no less – has suffered multiple mini-strokes and refuses to leave the game to seek medical treatment.

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