DID YOU KNOW While researching his role in ‘Rounders’ Matt Damon reportedly lost tens of thousands of dollars on poker tables in real casinos? Both Damon and fellow Rounders star Edward Norton were invited to play in the 1998 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas (with a ten thousand dollar buy-in).
DID YOU KNOW In 1990, Commodore re-packaged its popular Commodore 64 home computer as the little known ‘C64 Games System’ (C64GS) a cartridge-based home video game console to compete in a market that was dominated by both Nintendo and Sega.
We play BAM! with them but professional card stacker Bryan Berg makes building structures with them. Harvard-educated architect Bryan Berg was taught by his grandfather and began card stacking at the age of eight. He has since become a multiple record breaker in the field.
Did you did ever own an Intellivision video game console? The Intellivision was multinational toy manufacturer Mattel Inc’s first foray into the home video game market and originally released in 1980.
Waipukurau is the largest town in the Central Hawke’s Bay District on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It’s my home town. In a notice in a 1878 issue of the Māori-language newspaper ‘Te Wānanga’ – passengers were warned against playing cards on the Napier–Waipukurau line, reminding them that it was […]
