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“Pragmatic Play's Reach Expands Again With Mr Green”, pragmaticplay.com, April 25, 2018.

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“Golden Week For Japanese Players”, Cashmio Casino Newsletter, April 20, 2018.

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Elaine Wynn, the largest shareholder of Wynn Resorts Ltd., is seeking to kick a friend of her ex-husband Steve Wynn off the company’s board of directors.

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She was dressed a little flamboyantly with jewelry and a low-cut gown. But it was evident to those who saw her that she was not a lady of the evening as prostitutes were called. And the men were also pleased that she was not a school teacher or social worker who frowned on whiskey and gambling, both of which were prominent in Nevada City.

Miss Dumont had a delightful French accent as well as an attractive downy fuzz on her upper lip. One of the men removed his hat and escorted her from the stagecoach. He followed her like an obedient puppy dog to a hotel a block away from where she registered herself.

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She was a gambler -- one of the best -- and she opened a game that quickly grew into one of the most respected poker games in town.

California was still reeling from the economic effects of the gold strike. There were many prospectors in Nevada City whose pockets were heavy with gold. In her attractive, almost virginal style, Dumont managed to relieve them of much of the weight of the heavy precious metal.

At first, the men who played in her game did it out of curiosity. But the curiosity grew into admiration. In order to play at her poker table, she insisted that the men wear jackets, refrain from profanity, and not engage in fisticuffs or other violence. She also ordered them to remove their hats. The popularity of her gambling enterprise literally exploded, forcing her to move to a larger facility.

She hired dealers and other assistants and became wealthy. After several years, the economic prosperity of Virginia City began slowing down and Dumont bid a sad adieu to the town. She moved to other places to run gambling games -- Nevada, Idaho, Oregon, Montana and South Dakota. She was successful everywhere she traveled.

Then age caught up with her and she began to lose her beauty. By the time she was 40, she had put on pounds and the wispy downy hairs on her upper lip had turned into a mustache. She had switched her drinking from wine to whiskey. While she made some of her money gambling, she made even more of it by going to bed with her customers who had started calling her Madame Moustache.

She moved to Fort Benton, Montana and opened a gambling saloon and brothel in a two-story building. The place had no touch of elegance. It was rundown with a dozen small rooms on the second floor.

A steamboat man who had heard of Madame Moustache came to the place because he wanted to play against her. By then Dumont was considerably overweight and her moustache was quite pronounced. He told her he either wanted to lose his $200 to her or use it to win a considerable amount of money.

She smiled and they began playing. She cleaned him out.

As he rose to leave, she signaled to one of her employees and insisted the man have a special drink on the house. It was a glass of milk. He returned to his steamship with nothing but memories.

Elaine Dumont's life ended tragically. She moved to Bodie, CA., set up a gambling house, and in 1879 decided she had had enough of life..She wandered out of town and shot herself to death.

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It's not off-base to talk about clouds and silver linings when discussing and contemplating Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general. Since we're long into spring of 2018 already, it's safe to say that the phenomenal year that was 2017 will not be repeated this time. The tumble Bitcoin took in the first quarter was just too much, but now it seems as if there is something good coming out of its supposed demise.

Despite the fact that Bitcoin has dropped heavily – very heavily, as much as by 70% since its peak value of almost $20,000 in December 2017 – it has actually started to gain new momentum in terms of interest from institutional investors who are believing in Bitcoin again. For the first time in months, “serious money is entering the market” - those are the words of Jeffrey Van de Leemput, Cryptocampus analyst. “A couple days ago I helped set up a 200k BTC transaction for Chinese buyers…Soros, etc., are coming in, we will now see the start of the real bubble,” he added.

As the cryptocurrency is currently trading for $8300 per coin, these events are perfectly in line with what was already predicted by Smart Valor's chief executive officer, Olga Feldmeier, who said: “A strong break above the $8,000 USD area is having the potential to comprise the ignition for the next bull phase, for which a lot of investors were waiting for a long time and will be happy to support now.”

Ari Paul, chief investment officer of BlockTower Capital is not as surprised, as he already commented that this institutional investment is inevitable for cryptocurrencies. He commented, “Even if they never believe in it, as an asset class, they’re smart enough to recognize the alpha opportunity.”

Saxo Bank analyst Jacob Pouncey is of the opinion that legacy markets uncertainties are giving an edge to the rebirth of Bitcoin demand and other crypto assets that are in no correlation with mainstream financial markets, adding, “If there is a significant pullback in the equity markets, there will be an inflow of money into uncorrelated assets, or assets that lie outside the reach of the traditional financial system in which cryptocurrencies are a potential alternative. The inflow of institutional capital to the cryptocurrency market, due to the increase in regulation and investor protection, could lead cryptocurrencies to a positive quarter.”

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“Institutional Demand for Bitcoin and Crypto Resurges”, Haig Samuel, bitcoin.com, April 19, 2018.

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Like Deborah and her friend, I grew up in a small town and I agree things were boring. I even went to work for a gambling casino in Laughlin, NV. I was a change attendant for Don Laughlin's Riverside Casino.

Back in those days you didn't win slips of paper that you could exchange for money at the cashier's cage. When you won money from a slot machine, you collected silver dollars, quarters, half dollars, dimes and nickels.

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After seven days on the job, my feet hurt so bad I could barely get out of bed. I liked Don Laughlin. He was a self-made millionaire and he was popular with his employees. But I staggered out of bed, dressed, went to his office and resigned.

'What's the matter?,' Laughlin said, smiling. 'This casino life too exciting for you?' He understood, paid me my wages, and we remained friends.

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Laughlin grew up in a small town in the midwest. He was an enterprising youngster who went into the slot machine business when he was still in high school. He was earning about $500 a week buying and selling slot machines to hunting lodges in his geographic area when his principal found out about his business.

The principal called him into his office and issued an ultimatum: either give up the slot machine business or leave the school. Since Laughlin was earning more than twice what the principal was being paid, he dropped out of school.

Laughlin ran a small casino in Las Vegas before he decided to turn Laughlin into a casino resort community. He bought a run down motel, installed a dozen slot machines and two gambling tables, and the Riverside was born.

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Now in his late 80s, Laughlin lives in a penthouse suite in the Riverside. He drives expensive cars, owns an extensive antique car collection that he keeps in Laughlin, and flies a helicopter.

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I lived in Mandeville a year and worked in nearby Covington for a commercial fishing magazine owned by a 92-year-old publisher named Harry Peace. The cities are just across the long causeway from New Orleans.

What did I love about Louisiana? The people, the food, the politics, the gambling, the wildlife and the music. B.B. King and Irma Thomas played a lot of blues in crawfish and beer concerts in the swamp country and forests where Louisiana hunters would run down deer and bobcats with their hound dogs and where fearless young men would wrestle alligators without worrying about the consequences.

As for politics, the citizens of Louisiana elected some of the most interesting men as their governors. I am of course referring to Huey Long and Edwin Edwards.

Long once made a speech where he promised voters if they elected him that he would build bridges, hospitals and highways and make life as good for them as he could. He also assured them that when he retired from politics he would be a rich man.

The people of Louisiana roared with laughter at Huey. He was their kind of guy. They voted for him and sent him to the governor's mansion where he cavorted with exotic dancers and did a lot of gambling, the same as Edwin Edwards, a silver-haired sugar daddy who would fill his briefcase with $100 bills before jaunting off to Las Vegas for a long weekend.

Now comes another Louisiana story that doesn't surprise me. Police in Louisiana announced the arrest of a poker dealer and an accomplice for rigging a bad beat jackpot in a casino out of $166,000.

The scoundrels were a 65-year-old dealer named Ashley Solomon and his friend Dale Foret, 51. Both are from Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.

While police refused to name which one of the dozen casinos where the incident happened, they gave details on what the suspects allegedly did.

The criminal investigation was started on Jan. 19, 2018 when some inconsistencies developed in the bad beat jackpot promotion. Solomon allegedly stacked the deck so his pal would get beat on a hand of four of a kind.

He did this, police said, by accomplishing a false shuffle. Casino management suspected something had gone wrong and refused to pay out the money. That was when the police stepped into the picture.

Both suspects were booked into the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center on charges of conspiracy to commit theft over $25,000 and attempted theft over $25,000. The dealer was also fired from his job.

When I was working for Peace Publications, I would stop at a cafe owned by a cute Mandeville girl for lunch. The place was a favorite hangout for truckers and it served good food and homemade pies that would usually be gone by 2 p.m.

Although gambling was illegal, the cafe owner had a dice game where if you rolled five sixes, you would win the jackpot. To play the game, you simply added $1 extra to the price of your meal. The jackpot was over $2,000 when I finished my lunch of crawfish, beans, rice and homemade biscuits.

'You mean if I roll five sixes I win the $2,000?,' I asked the cute Cajun girl who owned the place.

'That's right,' she said in a delightful Louisiana accent, 'but I hope you don't roll 'em.'

'Why not?,' I said. 'Don't you like me?'

'Oh, I like you a lot,' she said, touching my arm. 'I like all my male customers. But if you win, I don't have the money to pay you. You'd have to just wait a while until I could come up with it.'

Now that's straight talk from a straight-talking Louisianan. Governors Long and Edwards would be proud of her. I shook the dice, rolled two fives, a six, and a pair of threes and was happy I lost.