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...could raise the stakes as high as they liked. The card sense that poker requires is not especially rarefied; the limit chiselers at the other Vegas casinos know as much about probabilities as the sportsmen at Binion's. What distinguishes the heavyweights is that broke or flush, they can function at financial altitudes that paralyze everyone else. "The money freezes you up, and you become tight-weak," one contestant in formed Alvarez, describing his introduction to the major leagues. His colleagues agree. "If money is your god, you can for get no-limit poker, because it's going...
...Jose State] have been telling you for three months I'm not going to play in Baltimore." Elway then called a press conference to declare, ''Right now, it looks like I'll be playing baseball with the Yankees. [The Colts] knew I held a straight flush and still they called...
Last month the San Joaquin River, flush with mountain runoff, broke through a levee near Vernalis in Northern California and washed out 10 sq. mi. of prime farmland. Farther upstream, in central California's Kings County, rains had already dunked 70,000 acres in floodwater; the runoff now threatens an additional 20,000 acres. "We're down here like a bathtub without a drain," fretted Farmer Don Gilkey, who had 4,000 of his 10,000 acres drowned...
With a rosy flush of expectancy warming her cheeks, Queen Nur, 31, the American-born wife of Jordan's King Hussein, 47, has continued to fulfill her state commitments throughout the final six months of her pregnancy. The new royal baby, expected this week, will be the couple's third: they have two sons, Prince Hamzah, 3, and Prince Hashem, 22 months. Pregnancy, it appears, seems to suit the former Lisa Halaby almost as much as queenship does...
...Vegas, a city where optimism is an occupational hazard, junketing television broadcasters were dealt a bad hand last week. The dealer, ironically, was the National Association of Broadcasters, a trade organization that usually touts the future of TV in royal flush terms. At a press conference during its annual convention, the N.A.B. released a study that resembled an elaborate good-news/bad-news joke. The good news: Americans are watching as much television as before. The bad news: they like it a whole lot less. "This study is a little daring for a trade association to reveal to its members," said...