Best Las Vegas Poker Tournament Directory
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Elegant Wynn Poker Room
Are you in Las Vegas, planning a trip to Vegas or looking for an excuse to enjoy some live action poker in Las Vegas? Look no further than the Poker Prof's Las Vegas Poker Tournament Directory. It is the most up-to-date, comprehensive guide to Las Vegas poker to be found anywhere. Unlike print guides that offer month old info printed in a format guaranteed to confuse the Prof's schedules are updated daily so the information is as fresh and accurate as possible.
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Ultra Hip Palms Poker Room
Need another reason to make the Prof's Poker Tournament Directory your exclusive poker planning tool? How about the easiest to use search functions currently available anywhere? Choose your input parameters - calendar dates, days of the week, clock times, casinos, formats, buy-ins - and and then quickly zero in on the events that fit your preferences, schedule and wallet. You can even custom tailor the resultant data in an easy to understand style of your choice.
It's time you stop squinting at the fine print of old fashioned poker tournament directories filled with out-of-date info. Use the Poker Prof's Las Vegas Poker Tournament Directory and the only squinting you'll be doing will be recording the flash of your opponent's hole cards.
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Nostalgic Binion's Poker Room
Spam a Politician for Poker
I hate spam and I would never solicit anyone to send spam but in this is really more like poker activism or perhaps simply Enlightened Governmental Expression.
The Republican Party in the U.S. has had this plank in their presidential platform for the last two elections.
"We support legislation prohibiting gambling over the Internet."
Now I know a lot of poker players who really want the government to get the hell out of our living rooms and our laptops but... they are not single issue voters and cannot bring themselves to vote for a democrat even though the republicans are against online poker. So there is a solution: TELL THEM!
The folks writing the 2008 republican party platform are soliciting input from voters and since email cannot be traced to a city, state or country... Everyone should feel free to let them know what you think on this issue.
It's easy, here's how to let them know you are watching:
* Go to this site to register.(you’ll receive an email with your password for the site).
* Click "Submit Text Entry" (at the top right) to submit a typed message.
* Write a short pro-poker message, choose a category, then click submit. It's that easy!
For any non-poker readers, there are lots of other topics to sound off about. I gave them a piece of my mind on stem cell research while I was there.
Poker room offers at Station Casinos
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Play at the original Station
If you're in Las Vegas and play poker, it pays to sign up to the Station Casino's player's club.
We preferred the old Boarding Pass card to the new My Card, but that's just cosmetic. Either way, we received a flier in the mail for $10 off our next buy-in of $100.
Just two hours of play is necessary before claiming the $10, so it's basically $5 an hour to play a few hands.
The offer is good through Sept. 30.
You may already know about Station's Bad Beat Jumbo Hold'em Progressive, which starts at $150,000 at quad 10s beaten, then the hand requirement reduces every week until someone gets the beat.
And when it happens, everyone playing poker in every Station casino shares in the progressive... with a minimum of $200.
(This is aside from the in-house bad beat jackpot of $10,000 for Aces full of 10s beaten.)
Another offer is $250 for every royal flush.
And, in addition to the regular $1/hour comp for playing live poker, you'll receive $3/hour if you play between 3 a.m. and 9 a.m.
Nothing beats playing poker on the Strip, but sometimes it's worth taking a drive to check out the local casinos (Palace Station is the closest Station to the Strip, but our favorites are Red Rock and Green Valley Ranch).
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Palace Station Poker Room
A “Too Successful” Poker Room
With poker rooms opening in some areas and closing in others; with various police agencies raiding home poker games and allowing others; with some governments restricting online poker and others taking down all legal barriers; from all of this conflicting mess comes a strange notice from Nottingham, UK.
The Dusk Till Dawn poker room has made the somewhat surprising decision to cut back upon their scheduled opening hours because they are too successful!
In a statement issued by Managing Director Rob Yong, he pinpoints the fact that Dusk Til Dawn are in danger of becoming victims of their own success, with the level of service being offered to members being highlighted as one of the major reasons behind the decision to reduce the number of hours the club is open per week from 80 down to 40, a full 50% decrease.
“DTD has now been open for nearly 8 months. After the exhausting 2 year fight to legally open the UK’s first poker club, I was finally looking forward to relaxing and enjoying playing a bit of poker with my friends. However, everything has run at a million miles per hour and DTD just feels like “another one of my businesses", rather than the type of escape from the business world that my football club provides me with. However, running another large business is never what I wanted; my goal was to create a unique poker experience based on the personal approach, high quality service and something very different from the casino poker model.â€
We have a suggestion Rob . . . Hire some experienced poker room staff to run your business, rather than close it down.
For those who might wish to play at Dusk to Dawn (well actually that would be Near Dusk Til Sometime in the Middle of the Night), the new schedule is below.
Ladies of the 2008 WSOP Part I
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Evelyn Ng
Sorting and cataloging the thousands of image shot during the 47 days of the 2008 WSOP is a mind numbing chore that requires hundreds of hours. I'm reliving the 55 events frame-by-frame so thought it would be appropriate to offer up some of my favorites gleaned from the mass. As expected from an old chauvinistic photographer, my choices trend toward the small percentage of females that take a seat at the tables.
I've selected a dozen or so images to spice up tonight's WSOP Poker Fest on ESPN. While you're watching the guys shove chips back and forth check out the ladies. Many more Flipchip WSOP photos will follow in the upcoming weeks.
Another dozen photos after the jump...
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Mario Ho
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Jennifer Harman
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Shannon Elizabeth
Anna Wroblewski
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Cyndy Violette
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Kathy Leibert
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JJ Liu
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Clonie Gowan
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Julie Dang
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Kristy Gazes
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Annie Duke
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Liz Lieu
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Katja Thater
2008 WSOP on ESPN TV Tuesday 8 PM EST
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Grant Hinkle on his way to winning $831,462
WSOP Episode #2 premiers Tuesday evening on ESPN at 8 PM EST. Times vary depending on your location so be sure to check local listings for the exact schedule in your area. A record field for this first $1,500 buy-in No-Limirt Hold'em event finally topped out with 3,929 players to make it the largest non main event live poker tournament ever. It also set a record for the largest prize pool for a $1,500 buy-in event without rebuys at $5,363,085. Tuesday night's final table nine will take home $2,906,436 from the record setting purse.
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Chris "Jesus" Ferguson finished third
Tuesday's final table is not just another table full of poker hopefuls wishing for a miracle. Included on the list of nine is the 2000 WSOP Main Event World Champion Chris "Jesus" Ferguson looking from under the black hat to win his sixth WSOP gold bracelet. Under the other black hat at the final table is well known poker pro David Bach seeking his first WSOP gold. Poker millionaire Theo Tran will be there trying to strike the mother lode and carry away his first WSOP golden bracelet.
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David Bach left in the eight spot
This final table will go to the heads-up play for all the marbles after Jesus is eliminated in the third spot leaving a couple of relatively unknown players, Grant Hinkle and James Akenhead. For more than two hours the two tip toed around each other with neither willing to do much gambling. The first bet at the pot often takes it down with few hands going past the turn card.
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Theo Tran outlasted all but three players
The four day event finally comes down to the final hand and a most fitting finish to the biggest non main event poker tournament. With Akenhead all-in and covered by Grant Hinkle's call the showdown reveals Hinkle's hole cards of 10-4 of diamonds to Akenhead's favored Big Slick. The flop comes 10,4,10 giving Hinkle a full house and Akenhead a migraine headache. His only out is a miracle of runner-runner Aces or Kings. All his hopes are dashed when the fourth 10 comes on the turn to give Hinkle quads for the win and Akenhead second place.
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Grant Hinkle and James Akenhead played heads-up for more than two hours
Grant Hinkle takes home $831,462 and the bracelet. James Akenhead received $520,219 for his bad beat second place finish. Chris Ferguson drives away in his red Ferrari with $388,287 and Theo Tran takes $327,148 for his fourth place. David Bach collected $117,987 after going out in eight place.
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The final board of WSOP event #2...Quad Tens
Party Poker Celebrates a Birthday
PartyPoker.com is counting down to celebrating its 7th birthday and is giving players an opportunity to join in the party with a $1,000,000 guaranteed Birthday Party bonanza tournament.
There will be no cake, no disco and definitely no unwanted gifts, just a cool $1,000,000 guaranteed prize fund that will be up for grabs in a special tournament on Sunday 10th August at 1245 ET. Daily qualifiers are now taking place at PartyPoker.
Players can buy-in directly to the championship-style blind structured main event for $640. As always, PartyPoker will provide a diverse qualifying structure allowing ALL players, no matter the size of their bankroll, an opportunity to qualify and participate in the $1 Million Birthday Million. Qualifiers start from as little as $1 with a range running daily. It is possible to get involved in the action by using just 15 PartyPoints. Detailed information on qualification can be found here.
A PartyPoker spokesman said,
“There is no doubt this is a party not to miss. It is not often you go to someone else’s birthday celebrations with the chance of walking away with a share of $1,000,000. It will definitely feel like a birthday and Christmas all rolled into one for our big winners. The birthday celebrations will start on Monday 4th August, with a range of special celebration tournaments.
Online Poker Room Adds Bad Beat and Royal Flush Bonuses
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Whether it's a bad beat or a royal flush Bodog is now paying you for it
Bodog Poker recently added some value to their online poker room with Bad Beat bonuses and Royal Flush jackpots.
While few things hurt more than a serious bad beat, Bodog is easing the sting a bit. As of now, the Bodog poker room will pay out 100 times the big blind up to $1,000. All you need is to get beaten while holding at least a boat with aces full of kings.
On the flip side, when things are as rosy as they can be and you're holding a royal flush, Bodog will see that you make more than just the pot you're playing for. Their new royal flush bonus pays out the holder of the nuts of all nuts with 50 times the big blind up to $200.
Get the complete details on these promotions over at Bodog's online poker room.
Tuesday Night is WSOP Poker Night on ESPN
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Nenad Medic shows us the money
Are you ready for some poker? The first installment from the 2008 World Series of Poker premiers tonight on ESPN at 8 PM EST. Join hosts Norm Chad and Lon McEachern as they provide the running commentary for the first of 17 weeks of WSOP poker. That's over thirty hours from the most exciting poker tournament in the world, the WSOP.
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$791,112
Tonight's episode will feature the $10,000 Buy-in Pot-Limit Hold'em World Championship from the Rio Resort in Las Vegas. A total of 352 players vying for a prize pool of $3,308,800 in this first event of the 2008 WSOP. Supplement tonights viewing experience with Dr. Pauly's final table recap of the event right here on the Poker Prof's Poker Blog.
Set up the laptop, grab some brews, surround yourself with snacks and settle in for an evening of poker from the 2008 WSOP. This is great training for the soon to be here 2008 NFL pre-season games. So, are you ready for some football...and poker, too? The 17 consecutive weeks of Tuesday night WSOP poker on ESPN will take us to the November 9 same day coverage of the 2008 Main Event final tablewhen the November Nine will be competing for more than $9 million.
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Nenad Medic and Andy Bloch go heads-up for the championship
Backlog from the World Series
Time to sort through all of those non-WSOP notes and see what has been happening outside of Las Vegas for the past two months.
The most recent Ultimate Bet cheating scandal is still apparently not fully investigated and the results are
"expected to take an additional two to three months."
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You can read a semi-complete account of the current state of the affair based on a conversation between Barry Greenstein and Russ Hamilton, former principle in UB.
There is a documentary based on the final table of the 2005 WSOP about to be released. It's called "Pass the Sugar", yes 2005 when Joe Hachem won the Main Event. Not surprisingly this is an Australian production and Tony Hachem, Joe's brother is a co-producer.
The fact that the press noise around this release says that "Pass the Sugar also will feature interviews with Jennifer Tilly, Jose Canseco and other celeb cardplayers", makes me want to repeat that Jose Canseco is not a celebrity but a old baseball player who thinks it's appropriate to play in Ladies Only events and impose his own warped view of the world on others because he once took steroids and could hit a baseball.
Sticking with show business, the Venetian is going to open a show next month based on poker. The Real Deal will apparently be audience interactive and will include in its cast on a rotating basis, many name poker professionals including: Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Jr., Antonio Esfandiari, Gavin Smith, Eli Elezra, Jennifer Harman, Phil Laak, Scotty Nguyen, and Todd Brunson. The pros will participate in shows each month, taking on the Las Vegas audience members in interactive games. More on The Real Deal can be found here.
The Game Show Network, after deciding not to renew the World Poker Tour and subsequently seeing the WPT move to Fox Sport Network, well GSN decided not to remove poker completely from its lineup and has renewed Poker After Dark for another year.
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