If you know you’re going to go to prison for a significant stretch after attempting to — and partly succeeding — in defrauding Medicare out of a nine-digit sum for services never requested by physicians or their patients, what’s a gambling person with plenty of money but not much “free” time supposed to do? If …
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Players Behaving Badly, Part 2: Blieden’s Song
Then there’s the legal tale of Dennis Blieden, the winner of the World Poker Tour’s 2019 LA World Poker Classic for a cool million dollars. The problem, though no one in the poker world knew it besides Blieden himself, was that the million dollars he won was just a drop in the bucket compared to …
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Mike Sexton, the “Ambassador of Poker,” Passes Away at 72
Mike Sexton, one of poker’s most famous figures and known as the “Ambassador of Poker” for decades, has passed away at age 72 following a battle against prostate cancer. News of Sexton’s passing on Sunday, September 6 was shared publicly by fellow Poker Hall of Famer Linda Johnson, who relayed the sad news via Twitter: …
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