Published on May,09 2012 - by The Los Angeles Times
... the 837,000 slot machines around the country. Nearly a quarter of survey respondents said they prefer playing blackjack; 7 percent said poker was tops, while 3 percent named craps and roulette as their gambling picks. R...
Published on May,02 2012 - by Star Tribune
...ntine's Day _ it was on a Thursday that year _ I played an ex-showgirl-turned-blackjack dealer. I had to go to blackjack school. I learned everything about the game. After that I said, "I'm never gambling again." Because...
Published on April,23 2012 - by McClatchy and Tribune Newspapers
LOS ANGELES _ It was a dank, rain-sodden Raymond Chandler kind of morning, as if some omnipotent auteur had rung up the studio and ordered a classic film noir sky. Cumulonimbus clouds the color of a snub-nosed revolver ...
Published on April,21 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
Nica Rothschild abandoned a life of glamour and high society to hang out with the black musicians of America's jazz scene, eventually devoting herself to the pianist Thelonious Monk. In her new book, Nica's great-niece ...
Published on April,19 2012 - by ABC News Radio
... to players whether they'd bust on their next card. Fif also has plans to launch a mobile version of 50 Cent's Blackjack for Android and Apple devices. Copyright 2012 ABC News Radio ...
Published on April,08 2012 - by The Los Angeles Times
... bam, while the other one is slow, deliberate. But people playing bridge love it as much as the people playing blackjack." But isn't baseball boring? "No, no, no," Scully says, and for the next 20 minutes he explains his...
Published on April,04 2012 - by Newsday
...ajor-league game in 18 months. Without the cash to add an elite starter, Alderson treated the offseason like a blackjack player standing on a hand of 12 and hoping for the best. The odds are against that strategy succeed...
Published on March,29 2012 - by The Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES _ The borrowed pickup truck, a crack inching its way across the windshield, lumbered into the parking lot off Sunset Boulevard a little before noon on Thursday. Diana Delmuro parked illegally, grabbed her ...
Published on March,22 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
...rly tipper is also analysed in detail. Haney remembers one incident in Las Vegas, where Woods had been playing blackjack with the high-rollers and gave the waitress “only a couple of hundred dollars, when a couple of tho...
Published on March,13 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
... sure [Savalas]. And Charlie [Bronson]. If my memory serves me correctly, Lee was playing all seven slots on a blackjack table. Whenever he asked for water – because he wasn’t drinking at the time – they’d bring him vodk...