Some of poker’s best players offer their assessments of the 2006 WSOP champion

Gold’s Midas touch: Skill or luck? After he was ousted from the World Series of Poker, forced to settle for an eighth-place payday of $1.9 million, Erik Friberg was asked how eventual champion Jamie Gold would …

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Sat, August 19th, 2006

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  • Gambling is defined by the Webster's New World Dictionary as the following: to play games of chance for money or some other stake, or to take a risk in order to gain some advantage.
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    1970: Binion's Horseshoe casino hosts the first World Series of Poker.
    1971: Female card dealers begin working on the Strip for the first time.
  • Massachusetts decriminalized bingo in 1931 in an attempt to help churches and charitable organizations raise money. Bingo was legal in 11 states by the 1950s, usually only for charity purposes.