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...comfort to more distant alarms ... For all his flamboyance?he indulges his fondness for red in his coveralls, safety helmets, office rug and secretary's hair?Adair is methodical about his business, [and] carefully notes and catalogues everything he learns from a fire 'so as to have a little nugget handy in our minds to lick a problem next time it shows...
...scary-looking guy who needs to borrow $500 for 24 hours. Not only does the guy not pay him back the next day but he also pops up on FOX's The Casino the following week. His name is Ernie, and he got kicked out of the Golden Nugget after convincing a young blond to work with him entertaining a high roller. Everybody in Vegas, Maloof explains, is looking out for only themselves. "You can't have a real relationship here," he says. "Not just romantically," he says. "The only people I trust are my brothers...
With the Palms' success, the once secretive Vegas is courting the media. The Golden Nugget is the focus of The Casino; the Discovery Channel's American Casino follows the Green Valley Ranch hotel; Extra has regular Vegas segments. Vegas even has its own impressively attended comedy and film festivals. "The whole entertainment industry is looking to Las Vegas," says Trevor Groth, the director of programming of CineVegas, who persuaded Jack Nicholson, Sean Penn and Dennis Hopper to show up for last month's sixth annual festival. "It's a suburb of Los Angeles...
Vegas' first significant poker room opened in 1949 at the Golden Nugget casino. In the early 1960s, the big action shifted from downtown to the Strip, where casinos such as the Dunes and the Stardust offered a variation of the game called Seven-Card Lowball, also known as Razz. Then came the boom in blackjack and the beginning of poker's decline. By the late '80s and early '90s, during Las Vegas' ill-fated attempt to turn itself into a family destination, tourists seemed to have lost patience with the game's sleazy Wild West flavor. With revenues declining, several...
...more maniacs and they're winning much more often," he says. "These kids don't have any fear. They're willing to move the chips around and they celebrate like crazy after they win a hand." Vegas' first significant poker room opened in 1949 at the Golden Nugget casino. In the early 1960s, the big action shifted from downtown to the Strip, where casinos such as the Dunes and the Stardust offered a variation of the game called Seven-Card Lowball, also known as Razz. Then came the boom in blackjack and the beginning of poker's decline...