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1
Mar
2010
The Star Studded Charity Poker Tournament
Three Square Food Band will be benefiting from the PokerStars in its upcoming poker tournament. Numerous celebrities are expected to come at the gala. Tony Hawk, a skating legend who helped the Olympian Shaun White is one of the expected guests.
The tournament also looks forward to actors for the name of charity like Christian Slater, star in “Broken Arrow,” Untamed Heart,” and “Young Guns II,” and Brad Garrett who appeared in movies “Night at the Museum,” Ratatouille,” as well as Disney’s “ A Bug’s Life.” Joanna Krupa, hostess of North America Poker Tour as well as Team PokerStars Sports Stars Orel Hershiser will also play in the competition.
In addition to the aforementioned stars, the talk show host Montel William, Slash, former guitarist of Guns N Roses, and actors Marlon Wayans and Lou Diamond Phillips will as well appear in the tournament. Of course, poker players of PokerStars will also join in the battle.
The president and CEO of the Three Square Food Bank, Julie Murray is so delighted to PokerStars for its dedication to help those who hunger in Southern Nevada. Including the charity-minded celebrities who will join in the said tournament were appreciated. Julie Murray believed that this step would make a difference in their fight against hunger.
22
Feb
2010
Planet Hollywood Casino is Under New Management
With the preliminary approval of the Nevada Gaming Control board, there’s only one transaction left before Harrah’s can own Planet Hollywood. Last September of 2009, Harrah’s paid Planet Hollywood’s debt amounting to $70 million with a stipulation that on January of 2010, Harrah’s will be in charge of Planet Hollywood. Unfortunately, this will also mean that Harrah’s will acknowledge the remaining debt of Planet Hollywood amounting to $554 million.
This step Harrah’s is taking in controlling Planet Hollywood would save a lot of job when possible at the same time put a stop to Planet Hollywood in failing and file bankruptcy as explained by Dennis Neilander, Gaming Control Board Chairman.
The Nevada Gaming Commission is expected to grant it’s final approval in favor of Harrah’s control over Planet Hollywood on Feb. 18 of this year. By this time, Harrah’s will employ Planet Hollywood’s employees. According to its executives, Harrah’s will hold on to the 2,300 existing staff members of Planet Hollywood. This is around 95 percent of Planet Hollywood’s employees. Harrah’s also owns Bally’s and Paris Las Vegas casinos and Marilyn Winn, president of both casinos will also be the new president of Planet Hollywood.
16
Feb
2010
PokerStars is Throwing the Nordic Poker Awards
Numerous poker players have been creating different names in the society and have captured different World titles from different poker Tournament. In order to honor the poker player all over Finland, Norway, Denmark and Sweden, PokerStars will throw the Nordic Poker Awards.
Nordic Poker Awards was previously known as the Scandinavian Awards. PokerStars will announce the awards before the Copenhagen European Poker Tour stop on February 15, 2010. Although, the United States have the top most prestigious professional poker players, the players from Nordic countries still features a high percentage of gamers in the industry.
The 2010 Nordic Poker Awards is thrown in order to award the top performances of poker players. Best Live Tournament Player, Best Performance, Best Online Player and Rookie of the Year are the awards to be given to them.
Some of the popular poker names that were nominated are Patrik Antonius, Peter Eastgate, Ville Wahlbeck, Ilari Sahamies, Jani Vilmunen and Dag Martin Mikkelsen. The awards will be given to the player that wins the voting which was decided by the public.
Pubic voting as the Nordic Poker population will decide which among the 30 nominees will take home the awards. Murat “Terrible Turk” Sahan from Poker Magazine, Jens Mogensen from Ace Magazine, Jasper Pääkkönen and Kjetil Flåten are the board of judges for the winners.
9
Feb
2010
Las Vegas Sands Plans to Open in Miami
Las Vegas Hands is planning to bring the gaming action in Florida according to the Miami Herald. The giant casino is planning to build a $3 billion resort casino in Miami.
Sheldon Adelson, Las Vegas Sands CEO has been very busy for the past few days and for being hired as a Tallahassee lobbyist. He has made a lot of important contributions in Florida in regard to the pro-casino political campaigns.
Recent reports confirmed that Ft. Lauderdale legislator Ellyn Bogdanoff left with the plan of the expansion despite his early disagreement on the expansion of the State. He seems to side to the other side now.
The poker gaming industry has been looking for different markets to help them survive the stress they are undergoing for the meantime. Stress was brought about by the major investments that gaming industry has provided in places like Las Vegas and Macau.
In recent times, Miami has been attracting more and more companies to invest in their state. Miami is becoming on the target market of other big companies who wanted to invest in a different state. Big companies are targeting Miami in order for them to increase their stock values due to Miami’s economy at this point.
8
Feb
2010
Barack’s Obama Tweet Receive Criticism from Doyle Brunson
Doyle Brunson was known to be a Twitter Aficionado. He has been twitting to feed updates about the happenings in the DoylesRoom. Through his Tweeter feed, he can update the poker industry with his prop and sports betting and providing everyone a seemingly endless stream of blonde jokes.
Brunson, ten-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner made a comment to President Barrack Obama made from his twitter account. In response, he received a barrage of Tweets in response to his post that say “The Democrats say ‘give Obama time.’ Us Republicans [sic] agree, 25 to life seems appropriate!”
Some persons commented on Brunson’s post that it was stemmed from racially motivated feelings towards the President. However, after a couple of hours, Brunson made a new statement that his post has nothing to do with the color of the skin of the President. He also added that he may not like the 1st year of ruling of Obama but this has nothing to do with his physical features.
As of the moment, Brunson appears to be laid off the political Tweets for a while. The Full Tilt Red Pro and the 2006 WSOP Player of the Year Jeff Madsen disagreed with the Tweets of the poker legend.
4
Feb
2010
Online Poker in California is coming Next Month
The Morongo Band of Mission Indians formed a group called the California Tribal Intrastate Internet Poker Consortium. It is one of the largest casino gaming tribes. According to recent reports lately, the California Indian tribes will be pushed next month.
The deal from the Commerce Casino together with the Bicycle club is being worked out by the Morongo to pursue the online poker in California. According to the Morongo’s spokesperson, Patrick Dorinson, they have been asking added support from different tribes to pursue with the deal that fell apart due to the issues that risen that it was rush through the legislative process.
1 of the most influential groups, California Tribal Business Alliance has shown their disagreement in the proposal. They claim that it could violate the exclusivity clauses in gaming compacts with the casino tribes.
There are around 1.4 million Californians enjoying poker in an online poker via offshore websites. The proposal seems to gather potential revenue streams for the state and the Senate Governmental Organization Committee will take up all the questions about this online poker on the 9th of February.
Invitations have been distributed and speakers for February 9 are all ready to support the hearing. However, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIEGA) prohibits the use of credit cards and all fund transfer for the illegal online gambling except for the intrastate internet gambling.
1
Feb
2010
Unabomber Poker: Phil Laak’s Own Room Launched by Cake Power Network
In the poker industry, it is a remarkable sign for poker players to have an online room named after them. This will mark their legendary tracks in the online poker world like DoylesRoom after Doyle Brunson and Devilish Poker after David “The Devilfish” Ulliot. Read the rest of this entry »
26
Jan
2010
21 Year-Old Player Wins PCA High Roller Event
William Reynolds won worth $576,000 at the age of twenty one years old in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) High Roller Event. He was an Iowa poker player who took down the $25,000 buy-in in the PCA.
Wil Molson fight up with Reynolds in the final hand of the blockbuster event all-in pre-flop holding K-8 against the A-10 of diamonds of Reynolds. He was able to collect a prize approximately $322,000 for his runner-up performance. Read the rest of this entry »
19
Jan
2010
Daniel Alaei Wins World Poker Tour Five Diamond Classic
Daniel Alaei defeated Josh Arieh in the World Poker Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic. He was able to bring home the $1,428,430 as the first-place prize. Currently, he owns two WPT titles that goes with two World Series of Poker bracelets and has a rough estimation of $4million earnings in his poker tournaments. Read the rest of this entry »
23
Dec
2009
Daniel Alaei Grabbed the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic Title
Daniel Christopher Alaei was named the grand prize winner of the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond Poker classic that ended this week. He had outdone the other 328 players who are on the field and take home an astounding $1.4 million in bag money.
Alaei specializes on NLHE cash games and has already collected more than $3.7 million dollars in live games during his poker career. He has 2 WSOP bracelets to his name and had won the $10,000 World Championship Omaha Hi/Lo 8-or-better event and made 18 cashes in the WSOP earning him an amount of $1,533,917 respectively. Read the rest of this entry »