Michael Kaplan
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For a moment, please, put down your playing cards, holster your chips and consider the possibility of a most cultured gambling experience: delectable sushi served at select blackjack tables, fine sake and rare Japanese whiskey poured in the high-limit room, and, after hours of nosebleed gaming conclude, a silk kimono hanging in an elegantl
It’s 1:00 a.m., Las Vegas time, and you’ve been hammering at the casino all day and all night. Blackjacks drop as if you have control over the cards. Instantly seven-ing out at the craps table is something that happens to other people. You’re not controlling the dice but you may as well be.
It’s not everybody who happily bets enormous sums of money in some of the ritziest casinos on earth – and gets asked to stop playing. This happened to Don Johnson and, along the way, he became a gambling-world legend.