Word: binion
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...expecting a fast turnaround. Indeed, as Aria is opening, the venerable Binion's Gambling Hall downtown has shut down, and the Sahara just announced plans to temporarily close rooms in two of its three towers. One of the early selling points of CityCenter was that a slate of condos was planned to give the project some semblance of urbane flair. But the high-rise-condo market is in dire shape. Murren says MGM Mirage has 50% of its condos under contract, but it also recently announced a 30% price reduction to lure in new buyers as well a financing package...
...first one in 1970. We had two tournaments: the Main Event and a Deuce-to-Seven Lowball game. I don't remember how I did, but I know there were only six of us, including Jack Straus, Johnny Moss, and "Amarillo Slim." Back then everything was held at Binion's Horseshoe [now called Binion's Gambling Hall & Hotel]. It was more of a reunion; you knew everybody who came. When we weren't playing, we got together [socially]. Now I don't know anybody, and the whole thing is so big I wouldn't be able to find my friends...
What do you remember most vividly about Binion...
...course I remember winning my two Main Event bracelets [in 1976 and 1977]. What made the place for me were the people. Except for [David] Sklansky, most of the guys I played against aren't playing these tournaments. Jack Binion is still my best friend, but he's never there, so I don't go down there much anymore. (Read a Q & A with last year's World Series of Poker champion, Peter Eastgate...
...wake of a sex scandal surrounding a student at Berkeley’s law school and the school’s then-dean. Berkeley, like many other schools, had an “unwritten rule” that students and faculty should not get involved, according to Gayle Binion, chair of UC’s Academic Senate and a political science professor at UC Santa Barbara...