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That Vegas Feeling and the Brutal Honesty of Poker

There’s a certain kind of memory that sticks with you, a feeling tied to a place and a moment in time. For a lot of us, that place is Las Vegas. Maybe it’s the ghost of a casino like the Mirage, a name that brings back a flood of memories—the sounds, the smoke, the specific texture of the felt. T...

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Every Time You Shuffle a Deck, You Make History. Seriously.

Ever shuffled a deck and wondered if that specific order of 52 cards has ever existed before? The answer is almost certainly no. A recent online discussion kicked off with this simple, funny premise, but it quickly blossomed into something more profound. It plunged into the mind-boggling mathemat...