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Poker night at home isn't the same after new shows - 2004-01-18
It's time to lay my cards on the table and let the chips fall where they may: I have a gambling problem.

The problem is that I've been watching so many poker shows on television lately, I hardly have time to gamble anymore. Maybe you've seen them; almost every network has one.

There's Showdown at the Sands, The World Poker Tour and Celebrity Poker Challenge, although the word "celebrity" is a stretch. Oh, I recognized a few people on the show, but only because I think I've seen them spraying chemical fertilizers on the neighbor's lawn.
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Harrah's buys Horseshoe for $50M - 2004-01-18
The sale of Binion's Horseshoe could be essential to positioning Harrah's Entertainment as the largest operator in gaming but end up costing downtown Las Vegas a world-famous brand and the hallmark World Series of Poker.

Three days after federal marshals forced the Horseshoe's closure by seizing about $1 million from the casino's cashier's cage to cover about $2 million in unpaid union health and pension payments, Harrah's on Monday announced a deal to buy the hotel-casino from owner Becky Binion Behnen for an estimated $50 million, most of it in the form of assumed liabilities held by the landmark downtown property.
Read the full story at Biloxi Sun Herald