![]() ![]() I suspected that I had the better hand against the heavy-set aggressive kid, but I would never know. ![]() In playing a game of incomplete information, part of the agony is when you never find out the answer to the question that has been posed. Poker is perhaps unique in that you are betting on an event that has already happened: the deck of cards has been shuffled and dealt as more cards are revealed, more information is available. Profits from the casinos of Macau now exceed those of Las Vegas, which need to protect their income stream from the likes of Dolores Smith. But Cooper’s book was published when Vegas was indisputably the gambling capital of the world. And, if you’ve got a dollar in your pocket, you’re entitled to play. ? and the disabled people rolling slowly through the aisles between slot machines in wheelchairs and mobility scooters – because, as the recession deepens, the proportion of disabled people in Vegas has risen noticeably: Mammon has finally found its Lourdes. Anyone can wander into the high-end casino-resorts, and people do, streams and streams of them, looking for bars and nightclubs and adrenalin adventure, drinking luminous cocktails from giant glasses, girls in tiny skirts and high heels, boys trying to act like high rollers, the prostitutes waiting in the casino bars, with the looks they send out that manage to be both candid and modest, You’re a discerning and attractive gentleman. Its thesis was that Las Vegas is brutal but self-evident: it’s all about money. The journalist Marc Cooper published a very good book about the city nearly ten years ago that was called The Last Honest Place in America.
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