In this Saturday, June 7, 2017, photo, Alex Christoff poses for a photo at the Rio hotel-casino in Las Vegas. Christoff’s gambling life began in Sandusky, Ohio, on the shore of Lake Erie between Cleveland and Toledo. By high school, Christoff was organizing poker, blackjack and dice games in neighborhood attics, basements and garages, mostly with friends, although, he says, “by the time we were teenagers, heaven forbid, I had three or four fathers who were showing up with their kids.” Now, at 77 and after retiring from his career as a Las Vegas casino dealer and moving back to his native Ohio, Christoff continues to indulge his lifelong passion for cards by returning to Las Vegas each year to work as a World Series of Poker dealer. (Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)
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