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Popa Chubby Salutes Freddie King, "The Texas Cannonball," with New Tribute Album

Houston Press 17 Mar 2025
Most blues fans can name the “Three Kings,” guitarists B.B ... He was name checked by tour mates Grand Funk in the band’s 1973 song “We’re an American Band” (“Up all night with Freddie King / I’ve got to tell you, poker’s his thing”).
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The Gambling Legend That Was Nick the Greek

Greek Reporter 12 Mar 2025
In a historic poker game in New York, with VIP viewers like the King of Egypt, Farouk ... The next day the New York Times praised the Greek gambler as the undisputed poker king who had humiliated Costello.
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$510K table game jackpot hits at downtown Las Vegas casino

Las Vegas Review-Journal 10 Mar 2025
The visitor won a $510,855 progressive jackpot on Face Up Pai Gow Poker on Saturday, according to a Boyd Gaming spokesperson. The winning hand was a king-high diamond straight flush, with the joker used to finish off the victory.
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Ian McKellen: This is why it helps to be gay to play Edward II

The Times/The Sunday Times 09 Mar 2025
“I was thrilled to play a gay man,” McKellen recalls of the auditions to play the king’s favourite, Piers Gaveston ... by his staging of the king’s violent, apocryphal death. a red-hot poker inserted up.
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Edward II review – intrigue bows to spectacle in RSC’s tragic game of thrones

The Observer 09 Mar 2025
The king’s homosexuality is defended, though not ... Not satisfied with having deposed the king, Mortimer orders him murdered (red-hot poker effectively managed by Jacob James Beswick’s callous Lightborn).
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