The Art of the Gamble, and Sunshine 300 Days A Year

Four hours of live poker in an icily cold air-conditioned poker room on a record-hot July day is more than enough. So I was ready to call it a day. I was up early on a semi-dramatic all-in with pocket aces on an 10-9-6-A board with two hearts and two diamonds. I did have the […]

Many people scoff at betting NFL preseason games. After all, the games usually feature reserves and players trying to make the team while starters saunter along the sidelines with thumbs in their jersey collars. But sometimes there can be an edge in the games once referred to as exhibition [...]

Roughly halfway through “First Man,” the Saturn V rocket carrying the Apollo 11 astronauts blasts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in a fiery, thunderous ascent that almost seems to shake the theater. It’s a powerful scene in a 2-hour, 21-minute film that traces the life of [...]

You meet the most interesting people while wandering around Las Vegas. On a Saturday leading into Labor Day weekend, I’m sitting in a card game in a casino in far south Las Vegas. It’s a heavily locals joint but tourists do come in, from California, from Arizona, from Texas and from [...]