Alex Christoff
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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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In this Saturday, June 7, 2017, photo, Alex Christoff smiles at a poker table at the Rio hotel-casino in Las Vegas. Christoff has worked at the World Series of Poker for over 30 years. Alex Christoff didn’t know it at the time, but his lifelong romance with poker and gambling had been written in the cards or at least in the whir-and-clang of a slot machine by the time he was just 12 years old. (Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)
