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When Oscar Goodman became mayor of Las Vegas in 1999, he made it his goal to attract a major-league sports franchise to the city. It took a few decades, but his dream has finally been realized—at great cost, as David Hill points out. thebaffler.com/outbursts/heav…

NYC, LA, Atlanta, Las Vegas

Finally beat Blue Prince last night. Took 44 game days and five real life weeks but I rolled the credits.

This week Prime Suspects: open for betting in KY; being the only bookie at a problem gaming research conference; & “microbetting” is the new 4-letter word in gaming politics (w/ Adam Bjorn & Matt Landes) youtu.be/Brgqc2S4Glg?si…

Even though the dildo that was thrown onto the floor of a WNBA game last night was green, green does not open as the favorite for the color of the next dildo to reach the floor during a WNBA game: Black +100 Pink +200 Green +600 Purple +600 Rainbow +800 White +1600 Field +500

This survey of NYC’s backgammon scene in today’s Financial Times has to be authoritative because it was written by Oliver Roeder and if he doesn’t know, nobody knows. ft.com/content/f8f888…

🎶All my rowdy friends are coming over tonight 🎶

Played a Diplomacy tournament tonight on a board made out of legos at Gen Con. Got rinsed in the tournament but nobody else on my board got asked for their autograph (!!)

Diplomacy US Championsip at Gen Con

We made it fam

Recession indicator

Legendary status achieved

Green -175 ✅