Poker Mac

The 36th World Series, a seven-week long poker extravaganza, starts Thursday with the first of a record 45 scheduled events. The competition culminates July 15 when play begins at the final table of the $10,000 buy-in World Championship no-limit Texas hold’em match.Harrah’s purchased the World Series of Poker last year along with the then-shuttered Binon’s Horseshoe. The company rescued the tournament when it reopened the venerable downtown casino in time for the event to begin.

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Noted in today’s New York Times Magazine:

Daniel Negreanu is a vegetarian, without much interest in food. ”I ate two days ago” is the kind of thing he says. His disdain for food is a reaction to his mother, who is obsessed with food. Mommy, as he calls her, likes to serve people food, then sit down and smile at them as they eat. When Negreanu was growing up in Toronto, Mommy sent him to school with his lunch packed in a brown bag. When he went to McDonald’s with friends, she gave him a brown-bag lunch. When he got his first job as a telemarketer (”I lasted a day,” he says), Mommy packed him a brown-bag lunch. When he got his next job at Subway (”I was a good sandwich maker”), Mommy packed him a brown-bag lunch. These days, when Negreanu goes to work at night at the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas, Mommy packs him a brown-bag lunch.
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