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2 weeks ago | 
aol.com | Michael Kaplan |Monica Harris |Augustine Sedgewick
Many casino gamblers expect to lose money. And they are rarely disappointed. But advantage players do the opposite. As detailed in my new book, “Advantage Players” (Huntington Press), casino winners meticulously study the games, devise strategies, put up their money, play accurately, and go home with wallets fattened. The book takes a deep dive into the world of advantage players — people who play games advantageously.
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Mar 22, 2025 | 
pagesix.com | Sara Nathan |Michael Kaplan
Kanye West is terrifying his ex, Kim Kardashian, and their children as he sinks into an abyss of mental illness, a close source tells Page Six. It’s been another week of chaos for the troubled star, resulting in Kim, 44, calling for an emergency custody hearing after learning misogynist brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate would be present during Kanye’s visit with their eldest daughter, 11-year-old North West.
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Feb 25, 2025 | 
flipboard.com | Kathryn Watson |Michael Kaplan
Trump Just Told Elon He's Stepped Over the LineMusk isn't taking it well. It took just over a month after his second inauguration, but it appears that Donald Trump may finally have put Elon Musk in …
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
pagesix.com | Sara Nathan |Michael Kaplan |Jeanette Settembre
Kanye West can’t be tamed. Sure, the self-proclaimed billionaire blew up the Internet Sunday night when he appeared to order his wife, Bianca Censori, to strip down to a completely see-through mini dress on the Grammys red carpet. But for those in West’s tight-knit circle, his bizarre — and sometimes alarming — antics come as no surprise, and neither does his continuing popularity.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
cardplayer.com | Michael Kaplan
Everyone loves playing the lottery, even those of us who know better. Personally, I find it impossible to keep from spending a couple of bucks on a ticket when the prize pool hits, say, a billion dollars. Right now, lotteries are legal in 45 American states, and, according to the Lotto Library, there are around 180 legal lotteries around the world. Predictably, though, the illegal lotteries seem more romantic to some.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
finance.yahoo.com | Michael Kaplan
A Los Angeles-based company that owns more than a dozen hospitals in four states filed for bankruptcy late Saturday night, the second major system acquired by private equity to collapse in less than a year. In an initial filing seeking Chapter 11 protections, Prospect Medical Holdings, which owns facilities in California, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, listed debts of more than $400 million.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
pagesix.com | Michael Kaplan
Mommy blogger Candice Miller’s seemingly perfect life was shockingly upended by the suicide of her husband last summer — but she has found a new safe harbor near the sea, sources tell The Post. The mom of two girls has resettled in Miami Beach, Florida, and sources told The Post she is finding ways to deal with and move on from Brandon Miller’s death after the real estate mogul ran up $33.6 million in debt and left her with just $8,000 in their bank account.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Michael Kaplan
Call it a license to scam. Law-evading drivers can easily buy devices that go on legitimate license plates to cover or obscure the identifying characters online via Instagram, TikTok or Amazon. The kits, which sell for around $60 to $70 each, allow drivers to get away with speeding, evading tolls and, as of this week, skirting congestion zone fees in the Big Apple.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
cardplayer.com | Michael Kaplan
If you beat casinos at the games they put up, expect to get ‘backed off’ eventually. That is, you will be asked to stop playing the game that you figured out how to beat. I know about getting backed off from experience. I’ve been asked to cease playing blackjack from one end of the Las Vegas Strip to the other. Bill Benter, an advantage player supreme who started out card counting and ended up helping to win at least nine-figures via Hong Kong horse racing, put it best.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
businessandamerica.com | Michael Kaplan
Two private equity firms’ efforts to wring profits out of hospitals in underserved communities put patients in danger, according to a new report released Tuesday by a powerful Senate committee. The 162-page report by the Senate Budget Committee comes as Americans continue to express outrage over the role of corporations in the U.S. healthcare system, following the December killing of the CEO of the nation’s largest health insurer.
