Sheila Wexler is a compulisve gambling counselor. She was born in 1936 in New York to Ida and Nathan Freeling. Sheila Wexler married Arnie Wexler in 1961, and after Arnie Wexler experienced years of compulsive gambling addiction, they both began working as compulsive gambling counselors. They have worked presented workshops and training seminars around the United States and internationally, written books, and trained other counselors on helping compulsive gamblers.

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In 1990, when Tina's parents opened the Fortune Inn restaurant, seven-year-old Tina began working alongside them; they closed the restaurant in 2005. After the restaurant closed, Tina's mother, So Lin Kwan, became a dealer and her father, David Kwan, became a cook at Lily Langtry restaurant in the Golden Nugget. So Lin is the third youngest of ten children born in Quiping to a different Kwan family. So Lin's oldest sister and her brother were the first of the family to emigrate; the brother did so at twelve years of age.

Lawerence "Larry" Chiu Hill is at Lawerence C. Hill and Associates. He speaks about his experiences of living in Taiwan and the processes of migrating from Taiwan during middle school to South America and eventually Corpus Christi, Texas where he would spend most of his childhood up until high school. Lawerence speaks on his father's experiences being a gaming marketer during the 90s and being heavily involved in scouting high rollers into Las Vegas casinos.

“My goal with [pageantry] was: I just want to have as much impact as possible within the community, and then, self-servingly, it’s an amazing networking opportunity; you meet tons and tons of people, and so that’s what I did.”