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Saturday, March 19, 2016
Poetic license
The other day I saw this on a license plate: AKQJ10. That's a royal flush. Another one I see from time to time: 21 I WIN. Pretty clever.
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Ian Macalester
I am a retired newspaper editor and reporter living in Henderson, Nevada, a suburb of Las Vegas. Ian Macalester is a pseudonym used to protect my identity as author of my blog on gambling, VegasofftheStrip.blogspot.com.
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