This is true on active Vegas weekends, especially at higher-stakes tables where fools, just in from California, are having fun making wild bets, often in states of altered awareness.

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Stakes for live cash games in Las Vegas casinos also have fallen.

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He once walked into a Las Vegas casino and challenged some of the best poker players in the world to some of the highest-stakes games ever played.

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