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Suits and countersuits over $1.5 million in winnings are flying between the Golden Nugget Casino, 14 players and the card manufacturer who is allegedly delivered unshuffled cards as shuffled, and ready to deal. At first, it seemed like a coincidence, the kind of thing that happens from time to time at a casino, where the same number or same sequence of cards happens twice in a row. But when the players at an April game of mini-baccarat at the Golden Nugget Atlantic City kept seeing the same sequence of cards dealt, over and over and over again, their eyes grew...

Cognac to blow your head, and wallet, away Thu Jun 14, 2007 1:47AM EDT     By Pauline AskinSYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - It could well end up being the most expensive hangover of your life.A Sydney hotel is offering patrons a rare cognac for A$480 a glass ($403) -- the cost of one-week's rent for a two-bedroom flat in the city -- to cash in on what it believes is the growing desire for a "Ferrari lifestyle" among Sydneysiders."It's a taste that promises to seduce not only your nose and tongue but your entire body," said Laurent Branover, the...