Benjamin Hager Las Vegas Review-Journal Christoff didn’t know it at the time, but his lifelong romance with poker and gambling had been written in the cards - or at least in the whir-and-clang of a slot machine - by the time he was just 12 years old.Ĭhristoff and his family were driving from Ohio to California to visit a relative. Photo taken on Wednesday, June 7, 2017, at the Rio hotel-casino, in Las Vegas. Alex Christoff has been a dealer at the World Series of Poker for more than 30 years.
