It was a tense moment in the final of the World Series of Poker main event in Binion’s Horseshoe casino in downtown Las Vegas in 1999. The casino was famous in Las Vegas for its origins in the 1950s, when it was founded by a former mobster called Benny Binion who modelled his casino on an old-style riverboat and introduced a number of innovations like raising table limits and even dropping them altogether at times. It was also the first casino in downtown Las Vegas, known as Glitter Gulch, to replace sawdust on the floors with carpet. This was a…

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