Cloutier.Īt Binion's Horseshoe, site of the 35th annual World Series, 52 all-but-naked women, body-painted as playing cards, parade around to promote an online poker site. The caricatured shills on these signs, designed to coincide with the 2004 World Series of Poker, are familiar faces to anyone who's been watching poker tournaments on TV: Chris Moneymaker, Annie Duke, Howard Lederer, Daniel Negreanu, Layne Flack, Phil Hellmuth, Chris Ferguson and T. It's illustrated on the walls of Terminal B in the form of big, backlit advertisements for Belvedere vodka. Immediately after you arrive at Las Vegas's McCarran International Airport, the impact of the poker boom hits you.
