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Sports bettor Tom Barton is a dual threat
LAS VEGAS - Tom Barton stands at the southwest corner of Tropicana and the Strip. It's high noon, two weeks ago, but he peers back a couple of decades, to the wee hours of a particular day.
Pedestrians surrounded this intersection, one of the busiest on the planet, and gawked. Outside their rigs, shifted into park, drivers and passengers stood and…