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+ An amusing 1860's Judi Slot Online story from History of Wyandotte County Kansas and its people:

+ A history of Wyandotte, in speaking of Judge John Pettit, the second judge of the Wyandotte district court, says: "Pettit was ill-natured, petulant, high-tempered, profane, tyrannical and abusive, but withal as clear-headed and able a jurist as ever donned the judicial ermine of Kansas. It was nothing unusual for him to go to Kansas City and play poker and drink whisky all night. The bar generally had to suffer for it the next day. In this connection we cannot refrain from giving an incident that occurred at the Garno House during one of his terms of court. S. L. Norris, a young man from Vermont, who lived by his wits, brought out a carpet sack of bank notes on the St. Albans Bank, which had burst in the crash of 1857. Judge James, Colonel Weir, Norris and one or two other parties, set up a job on Pettit and got him to playing poker. The old man was permitted to win nearly every game, and every time he won the boys put out a $20 bill on the broken bank of St. Albans, Pettit making the Judi Slot Online change in good money. At the close of the term the old judge was in high glee, as his capacious wallet was filled with $20 bills. But when he came to pay Mrs. Halford his hotel bill and presented one of his $20 notes, he learned the bank was broken; a second and third tender meeting a refusal on the same grounds, he saw that he had been sold. He returned to Leavenworth minus about $300 in cash, with about $1,000 in worthless money, a sadder but wiser man."

+ Link to this story; the Kansas State library has quite an array of material online, and a few of the items have interesting references to poker. See here for the complete list.

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+ Interesting article from the Washington Post on the apparently impending approval of casinos in Maryland, and the preparatory steps casino executives are taking in scoping out the market there.

+ Maryland represents an "unbelievable, just incredible market," said Timothy M. Hinkley, president and chief operating officer for Isle of Capri Casinos Inc...

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+ The Washington Post has an article on how Vegas is abandoning the family appeal that was pushed in the 1990's and going back to more adult-based attractions.

+ The 1990s effort to build a "family-oriented" Las Vegas was always a challenge to the town's flamboyant history. Ever since mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel erected the first oversized sign outside a casino here in 1931, Las Vegas has been a place for adult pursuits -- and it remains so today.

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+ If true, I'm fine with it. I think Vegas is not really a great place to take kids anyway. But I also think Dave Schwartz is right on the money when he says it's a "now-tired observation that Las Vegas is becoming less family-friendly and more adult oriented. Just like the 'family fun' story was overstated in the mid-1990s, the 'skin city' angle is getting more print than it deserves now." These stories make it seem like all Vegas resorts were converted to Disneylands in the 1990's, and now they're being converted to Bunny Ranches. To me, Vegas feels almost identical now to how it felt in the 90's.

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