Arizona

Big Time Poker In Arizona

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In the late 1990s, while I was toiling away in Reno, poker players in Arizona were enjoying something new: big-stakes poker in a casino. After Fort McDowell Casino opened near the end of Shea Blvd. past Fountain Hills (half an hour from Scottsdale), players could play all types of poker, and they could even play … Read more

Beautiful Heber, Arizona and the Buckskin Lodge

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          So here we are, halfway between Casino Arizona’s Talking Stick Resort in 60 degrees Scottsdale and Buffalo Thunder, outside Santa Fe in New Mexico. All right, halfway may not be accurate. I can’t remember. Talking Stick has 497 rooms, Buffalo Thunder has 395. Heber, Arizona, along highway 260, 40 miles … Read more