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Sam's Town Sports Book
Sam's Town! Why?... What do you get if you cross the age-old game of scrabble with professional football's championship game? You get a prop bet that's so complicated they're still trying to figure out the winners and losers.
In the simplest of terms the bet is based on the total number of scrabble points in the last name of the player scoring the 1st touchdown OV/UN. The total number of scrabble points is 15 OV/UN. Ties are No Action.
Points equivalent for letters follows:
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2011 WSOP ESPN TV Table
Caesar's Entertainment, owner of the WSOP tournament, released the 2012 schedule today along with some new changes in the event. Seth Palansky, Vice President Corporate Communications, opened the curtains on the largest, most action packed WSOP in the 43 years that the first ever, original poker tournament has been offered to poker players. Leave your calendar open from May 27 through July 16 when the November Nine of the $10,000 World Series Poker Championship event will head home until the November.
Wendeen H. Eolis
Ace investigative reporter, Wendeen H. Eolis, has once again returned from the quagmire that is online poker with another breaking story. This time she's the first to tell the world that PokerStars CEO Gabriel Campos Woslovsky would be leaving the troubled online poker company after a two year hitch.
Today starts a new poker promotion at Red Rock Station. From 2 a.m. to 10 a.m. daily, the high hand of that period in the poker room receives $1,000. The hand must be at least Aces Full and you must play both cards. If you share the same hand, you’ll split the prize. The flier takes care to mention that this prize does not come from the jackpot drop, it’s funded entirely by Red Rock. A nice extra, eh?
The Sign at (what was) the Fitzgerald Poker Room
In what we hope does not start a trend, the poker room at Fitzgeralds downtown has quietly closed.
Other poker rooms, such as Silverton, have limited their hours.
Fitz had a tough time since launching their poker room upstairs a few years ago. Only attracting 1 or 2 tables worth of players, they tried tournaments, sit-n-gos, freerolls, high hand jackpots, but in the end it didn't justify the cost and was shuttered.
Want to meet the man who came to Las Vegas with $6,000 and ended up winning over $1 million within 6 months -- all in video poker? Not only can you meet him, but poker guru Bob Dancer will be teaching classes on all the games he plays (to the tune of 800,000 hands per year). And during each, maybe he'll even discuss everything else that factors into successful video poker playing -- like casino comps, points, promotions, and other freebies. And ironically enough, it's being taught for free... at a casino.
As we previewed before, it's now a go!
The poker room at Treasure Island (TI) is now paying people to play poker.
From Saturday at midnight to the following Saturday at midnight, put in your hours and you'll earn money. And pretty significant money at that.
Play 10 hours, get $50. 20 hours, $125. 30 hours, $200. 40 hours, $300. 50 hours, $500. And 60 hours, $599 (to avoid IRS forms at the $600 giveaway mark).
With the holidays rapidly becoming a fading memory, Wendeen H. Eolis, our favorite bearer of facts concerning the state of Online Poker's uphill trek to legitimancy, is back to work.
We hope your New Year is properous, your health is superb and all your dreams come true in 2012.A new beginning filled with hope, kindness and peace. Enjoy the holiday, the football, Las Vegas and above all, stay safe.
She's back. Wendeen H. Eolis delivers the third segment in a continuing series of in-depth articles that looks at the big picture of online poker's legal/illegal status. Included in the analysis of the game is the age old argument of poker's classification of a game of skill or nothing more than a game of chance, no different than buying tickets in a government run lottery.