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...dice. A onetime compulsive gambler, Roberts, 62, weathered his years of wagering better than many. He never lost his wife or his home--although he has refinanced the house nine times. "Cards and Vegas were the two biggest things in my life," he says. "I'm a helluva poker player, but I have one serious flaw: I can't get my ass off the chair...
What with Stealth and the role he's currently shooting--the poker-playing John Dylan in Poseidon, a remake of The Poseidon Adventure--you could be forgiven for thinking he's action movies' Next Big Thing. But Lucas, wearing a platinum Gucci ring that washed up in the backyard of his Los Angeles rental during the winter rains, thinks of it more as being at the top of one of the cycles of his career. "I actually started to hit a little bit when I was young," he says, twirling a stack of poker chips in his hand...
...David Zhou 07, a Government concentrator in Adams House, is a news editor of The Harvard Crimson. While writing constituents, he dreams of inventing a way to play Magic The Gathering, or at the very least poker, with business cards...
...industry has been hurt by tougher gun-control laws in some states and an abundant supply of cheap used firearms. Moreover, many gun enthusiasts are blue-collar manufacturing workers who were laid off in the last recession and have not been rehired. TAXES Poker Is Hard Work...
Billy Baxter has been a winner all his life, but he works at it. A professional gambler and a three-time World Series of Poker champion, Baxter earns enough to afford a $1 million home in Las Vegas. But last week Baxter claimed his sweetest pot of all in a Reno courtroom: a $178,000 refund from the Internal Revenue Service...