A Chip off the Poker Block
According to the Gaming Commission of Nevada, there are many high-stakes casinos with up to $5 million marks on their tokens. In fact, with the approval of the commission
Playing Poker: A Lot About Understanding Strategy
Poker in its many forms has always been the cynosure of all those eyes that have ever frequented casinos and play houses to rake in moolah and rule supreme over this chosen one of card games. However, there have been famous instances when a player ruling a table lost badly while going for the bigger bets – done in by the sharks.
Rakesh Wadhwa. Ever since, I was a school boy, I knew India was on the wrong path. Socialism was just not what we needed to get ahead. Government controlled our travel; government controlled our ability to buy and sell; and government controlled our freedom to move our money. My life has focused on the inherent rights people have. When I was in college, I never understood, what the governments meant by their "socialistic attitude". If people are free to buy, sell and move their capital themselves without any restrictions by state, then the welfare of people is inevitable & hence the countries they live in will become wealthy. The government has no right whatsoever, to point a finger at me or my business. I am not a revolutionary. I just want to light up my cigarette and not get nagged about it. I believe in non-interfering attitude to attain more. 
The Bastiat Award is a journalism award, given annually by the International Policy Network, London. Bastiat Prize entries are judged on intellectual content, the persuasiveness of the language used and the type of publication in which they appear. Rakesh Wadhwa won the 3rd prize (a cash award of $1,000 and a candlestick), in 2006.
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