1.   Anyone can walk into the poker room of a casino and play.

2.   For as long as the poker room has been open, some gaming regulators and investigators privately have said the games were being operated as casino games.

3.   In the poker room, overstuffed red chairs, red drapes and red wallpaper.

4.   Jon Jenkins, director of Casino Arizona, said the poker room plans to sweeten the pot with other card games similar to blackjack and poker.

5.   While their New York and New Jersey accents still buzz in the cabanas, poker rooms and shuffleboard courts, their political voice is fading.