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Updated: 12:48 a.m. PT May 17, 2006
ST. PAUL - What Estelle Busch lost at the slot machines, she won with tax collectors.

The Minneapolis woman with a 60-hour-a-week gambling regimen — she labeled it a business — convinced the Minnesota Supreme Court that she should be able to deduct $200,000 in gambling losses over three years from her taxes. In all, she won $1.5 million and lost $1.7 million over the span.

"It was just plain hard work," said the 72-year-old retiree.

[JON]

The better part of the story

is she supposedly represented herself throughout the process.

[OldJack]

In all, she won $1.5 million and lost $1.7 million over the span.

"It was just plain hard work," said the 72-year-old retiree.

Good for her... that much activity would appear to me to be a business if she considers it so. Sometimes when you think you are right you have to fight.