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MOSCOW — One of the largest mass layoffs in recent Russian history is to occur on July 1,2009 , and the Kremlin itself is decreeing it, economic crisis or not.

The government is shutting down every last legal casino and slot-machine parlor across the land, under an antivice plan promoted by Vladimir V. Putin that just a few months ago was widely perceived as far-fetched. But the result will be hundreds of thousands of people thrown out of work.

And in a move that at times seems to have taken on almost farcical overtones, the Kremlin has offered the gambling industry only one option for survival: relocate to four regions in remote areas of Russia, as many as 4,000 miles from the capital. The potential marketing slogans — Come to the Las Vegas of Siberia! Have a Ball near the North Korean Border! — may not sound inviting, but that is in part what the government envisions.

The Lakers celebrated their 15th championship as a franchise on Wednesday with a parade through the streets of downtown Los Angeles. The event culminated with a rally in front of 80,000-plus at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum, but one person noticeably absent from the festivities was the team's owner, Jerry Buss.

Buss wasn't sick or out of town or anything, it's just that parades aren't really his thing. And actually, while all of this was going on, he was spotted sitting alone at a poker table inside a nearby casino.

TMZ has the photographic evidence, which shows Buss at the Bicycle Casino with the parade being shown on a television above the poker table.
Buss has become less involved with the team in recent years, and has largely turned over the operations to his children

"In The Game Of Life... Play The Cards You're Dealt"
from the movie "Rounders"

"Trust everyone... but always cut the cards"
from the movie "Rounders"

"For American males under 18, baseball may be said to be the national pastime. When they grow up it becomes poker"
Carl Sifakis, The Encyclopedia of Gambling

"If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you"
Paul Newman

"Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died"
Stephen Wright

"Hold em is to stud what chess is to checkers."
Johnny Moss

"I’ve always had confidence, but I never let my ego get to the point that I think I’m the superstar, because I know that ego has destroyed many a poker career"
Jim Boyd, modern-day road gambler

"I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of him"
"Amarillo Slim" Preston

"It is better to make people think you are a bad poker player, then to play and remove all doubt. Don't play to impress, play to win"
Michael Gersitz

"If you are a guy, you know you play too much poker if your wet dreams involve 'nuts' instead breasts"
BreakEvenPlayer

"Poker is a game of people... It's not the hand I hold, it's the people that I play with"

"Amarillo Slim" Preston

"Nobody is always a winner, and anybody who says he is, is either a liar or doesn't play poker"
"Amarillo Slim" Preston

"Timid players don't win in high-stackes Poker"
Doyle "Texas Dolly" Brunson

"I don't want to give you a complex... but your stack looks small"
Marcel Luske to a short stacked player at 2004 WSOP