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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The magic carpet ride: Noel Furlong, World Series Poker and the gamble of all time

Noel Furlong excelled in business, but the man who died last week achieved a lot more, notably in Las Vegas and Cheltenham.

3rd Jul, 2021 - 7 min read

Tom Lyons

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