After six consecutive meets at Santa Anita, my best sequence of the winter meet, I had to leave my comfort zone that is Arcadia, Sirra Madre + S.Pasadena , to visit the Bell area. It must be Hell if you stay across from the Bike at the Comfort Inn as the rooms face the parking [...]
Archive for April, 2009
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Friday, April 10th, 2009Double Dutch at the Bellagio
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009The Bellagio has always been popular with the Europeans. I believe the lower turnouts there are because the groups of Brits and Scandies that were ever present in the past has declined dramatically. However, yesterdays $300 evening tournament produced a Dutch 1-2 with Marcel Luske and Steve Wong actually sharing $3767 .
Five players named in betting scandal
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009Not a poker story. Five lower league English soccer players are being investigated after bets of up to $1k were placed on a game between promotion hopefuls Bury and nearby Accrington earlier in the season. Four Accrington players and one Bury player have been named in the investigation. The towns are less than nine miles [...]
No more jail time for Flack
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009DUI charges against Layne Flack will not be pursued a source informed me today. That probably means “back to back” hired a lawyer and will have to attend a DUI class. These classes are usually held at the Flamingo library and up to a thousand drivers are required to attend. The classes show videos of [...]
More entries at Santa Anita than Bellagio
Monday, April 6th, 2009I have not missed a Bellagio, or its complimentary buffet, for five years now. My first appearance I was chased off for taking a photo of my friend Joe Awada who happened to be seated next to camera shy Tobey Maguire. The last twelve months have seen shrinking fields at the Bellagio with the Bingers, [...]
Terry Crowe makes art out of my photo
Friday, April 3rd, 2009I remember Lynette Chan saying “I look forward to your latest batch of how to make a beautiful girl look ugly photos”. Well even though my posed Maria Ho photos never made it onto my site at the Commerce this one has been immortalised by Terry Crowe. Terry is a talented artist so he is [...]
Jennifer Tilly on Craig Ferguson
Friday, April 3rd, 2009Nothing from last night on YouTube at present so here is the same Jennifer a decade ago.
Can you imagine if she “acted” like this at the Bellagio?Jennifer T
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