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ZEELAND FACTORY CLOSING SALE
Everything must be liquidated NOW!
Fri., March 19, 9am to 6pm / Sat., March 20, 9am to 3pm
After 100 years Sligh has sold its Zeeland factory. This is the last & best sale ever.
Everythino must qo. All sold to the bare walls.
Hundreds of items, many one-o -a-kind and others in very limited quantities.
All sold as is. All sales final. lilinyilian's is conducting this sale at the Zeeland factory.
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totally ridiculous prices. jokcases from
executive office furniture
computer cabinets
home office furniture
wall systems
desks
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leather desk chairs
entertainment centers
home theaters
floor clocks from
wall & mantel clocks from
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hutches from
credenzas & decks
accent tables & misc.
items available in a wide selection of styles & finishes
6 months same as cash with approved credit/ pay by cash, check or bankcard
DIRECTIONS TO ZEELAND
from Detroit, take 1-96 to Grand Rapids, from Grand Rapids take 1-196 west, get off at Holland/Zeeland exit #55. Follow Business 1-196 to State St.
Turn right on State St. & stay on State to Washington Ave. Turn left on Washington. Sligh's factory is on the right at 201 W. Washington Ave.
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Ira knows all the poker and craps
dealers by name in the casinos he fre-
quents, and he can get special treatment
from the hotel managers whenever a
friend comes into town.
His daughter and son-in-law Carol
and Ronnie Berger of West Bloomfield,
will visit sometimes. And last year,
grandsons Joey, 25 and Shelby, 22, came
to play.
"Three generations playing in the
same tournament, that was real cool,"
Carol said. She and Ronnie lasted the
longest, but no family member won that
day.
Truthfully, 90 percent of poker is
luck; 10 percent is skill, Carol said.
What you're watching on television is
not a realistic game. They edit most of
the games, leaving out the dull hands."
Carol's been raised on gambling, she
said.
"My parents were gamblers before it
was ever popular. We went to Vegas as
little kids before kids went to Vegas."
Carol doesn't play in a local weekly
game in Detroit "because there's no girls
here that can play like me," she said.
"I've been asked to play in games, but
they're just kibitzers." I 1
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quette during casino tournaments —
besides waiting your turn and knowing
how much you're allowed to bet — the
couple says it's easy to tell when a new
player strides into the room.
"They're the kids that got a baseball
cap on backwards, and they all wear
dark sunglasses," Ira said. "They copied
it from the movie Rounders. They all got
a big bottle of water, and they all play
the same. They try to intimidate you
with their mouth."
Flo adds, "At the beginning, they all
come out strong, but after they start los-
ing and they see what it's all about, they
calm down. They get lucky sometimes.
I'm not saying they don't win, but its
very annoying to the real poker players.
The more they have these poker tourna-
ments on television, the more you'll see'
these people who don't know what
they're doing."
Ira was featured in a two-part series
last year on the Discovery Channel. A
film crew profiled Ira, poker professional
Scotty Nguyen and a young man
attempting a boxing career.
"The series showed me in a bad
light," Ira said. "We hated it, but we got
a good response. "
Strauss, Giroux, $26), but television
has brought the game into the main-
stream with a huge effect.
"There are now a zillion people
who have seen final-table play, and
think they know how to play final-
table poker," he said. "Out of the zil-
lion, there are hundreds who actually
have the money to come out of
nowhere and plunk down $10,000."
And 99 percent of these people,
politely referred to as "dead money"
or "fish," have almost no chance, he
said. But all it takes is a little string
of luck, some basic skills and anyone,
such as a Chris Moneymaker, who is
considered a fish by most people, can
get lucky at any given time or over
any given time, he said.
Moneymaker, who won $2.5 mil-
lion in last year's WSOP champi-
onship event, won entrance by enter-
ing an Internet tournament for $40.
A good player has to combine
some knowledge of the odds com-
bined with an understanding of the
opponents, Dr. Kaufman said.
"The one thing that has changed
in tournaments is that one has to be
a lot more careful at the beginning
because there are so many new play-
ers likely to be making all sorts of
strange and unexpected plays," he
said.
Dr. Kaufman said he will play at
the WSOP final event only if he wins
a seat in a satellite game.
"There will probably be at least
1,200 players this year, so, in spite of
the attractive $3 million first prize,
the odds of the more experienced
players making the big money are
very small," said Dr. Kaufman, whose
last tournament win was Jan. 17,
when he took home $48,733 in
Tunica, Miss.
So the rabbi and his friends have
some advice. Take your chances —
watch the World Poker Tour on the
Travel Channel, learn how to shuffle
chips, practice that steely glare in the
mirror, grab $10,000 and head to
Binion's Horseshoe Casino in Las
Vegas on May 22 for the WSOP
championship event.
Just remember: You're the fish, and
they can see that hook in your
mouth from the lobby.