Tag: 2004
How the 2004 WSOP Was Almost Cancelled
May 24, 2014
Poker News – Binion’s Horseshoe was a total ****house. Sure, it was a great place to work when I was there. And I wouldn’t trade those memories for the world. But not everyone saw it that way. By the time the doors were nailed shut and boarded over with plywood in January of 2004, more than 800 former employees were flushed out into the streets looking for work. That might not seem like a big deal. People lose jobs all the time. But the vast majority of former Horseshoe workers had been around for years, like barnacles attached to a…