Other places for great content

Date: Sat, May 12, 2012 Professional Tournament

With the LasVegasVegas project winding down, here are a few excellent resources for poker and vegas related content.

Poker:

Poker Player Newspaper - Lots of poker news and strategy.

Pokerati - Excellent Poker Blog.

Bill Rini - A poker industry insider with great insights.

Vegas:

2 Way Hard 3: A great and fun Vegas Blog from the fine folks at Rate Vegas.

The Die Is Cast (David G. Schwartz): Blog of the UNLV Director of the Center for Gaming Research.

What happened to LasVegasVegas?

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Boulder Highway Gambling Profits Up

Date: Wed, Apr 11, 2012 Professional Tournament

Eastside Cannery on the Boulder Strip

Boulder Strip delivered the best numbers while the Nevada gaming industry statewide pulled in almost 6% more than last year. Boulder Strip trumped the bunch with a 23% year-over-year increase. Boulder Station, Sam's Town, Eastside Cannery, Joker's Wild, Green Valley Ranch, Sunset Station and M Resort are included in the Boulder Strip stats.

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Wendeen H. Eolis Goes to the Movies

Date: Wed, Apr 11, 2012 Professional Tournament

Wendeen H. Eolis

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$35 room rate for World Series of Poker players

Date: Thu, Mar 29, 2012 Professional Tournament

If you’re playing the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas (May 28-July 9), there’s no better place to stay than the host casino, Rio Las Vegas.

All the hotel rooms are roomy suites.

You can spend your breaks in your room rather than with thousands of others.

You don’t need to rely on cabs or car rentals to get you there on time.

You can get in a quick nap before the second-chance tourney.

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Gunfight at Rio Resort Las Vegas Injures Three

Date: Mon, Mar 12, 2012 Professional Tournament

Parking garage located at lower left below Rio sign was scene of gunfight on top floor

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Bring a friend, get a free Step at Tropicana poker room

Date: Fri, Mar 9, 2012 Professional Tournament

Play Poker at Tropicana Las Vegas

The Tropicana poker room is the only live place where you can play Step tournaments, starting with a $10+2 single table satellite and, assuming you win, possibly advancing you all the way to Step 5 with a $10,000 World Series of Poker seat awarded.

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Wendeen H. Eolis Continues Online Poker Series

Date: Fri, Mar 2, 2012 Professional Tournament

Wendeen H. Eolis

Wendeen H. Eolis delivers a current state of affairs concerning online poker with her latest in-depth study of the age old question, "Is poker a game of skill or luck?" Most of us poker players know the correct answer to this question; but, the official (and legal) decision remains in the hands of lawyers, judges and the federal court system.

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"Poker After Dark" runs off remaining episodes

Date: Wed, Feb 29, 2012 Professional Tournament

NBC's Poker after Dark going same way as NBC's Heads Up Poker?

The NBC series “Poker After Dark” is set to return on March 5.

But not with new episodes, just unaired episodes that were shot in December 2010.

Twenty-four shows featuring cash games and 6 shows featuring sit-n-gos will be run off on the NBC Sports Network over the next 5 weeks.

The series, featuring known poker players playing in Las Vegas, was always interesting and entertaining.

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Wendeen H. Eolis pulls back the curtain with 'PokerStars: Walls Of Secrecy Tumble'

Date: Tue, Feb 14, 2012 Professional Tournament

Wendeen Eolis, the "Grande Dame" of Poker, continues to uncover and untangle the web of legal and political maneuvers by major players in the online poker world. In the latest installment she looks at the big bosses of Poker Stars and the PPA; demystifying the direction and motivations of the power players and the organizations they control.

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Step tournaments now at Tropicana poker room

Date: Tue, Feb 14, 2012 Professional Tournament

For those with fond memories of ye olde online poker days of Step Tournaments (made popular by PokerStars and Full Tilt), the first land-based casino we know of in Las Vegas is now offering its own version.

Tropicana Las Vegas is trying out Step poker tournaments, where for a small amount of money, you can keep advancing as you win, ultimately ending at a $10,000 prize (which is conveniently the cost of a World Series of Poker Main Event seat). Along the way, if you don’t win but place, you’ll receive a tournament ticket to a lower Step.

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Aces Cracked promo at Harrah's poker room

Date: Thu, Sep 23, 2010 Professional Tournament

Harrah's on the Las Vegas Strip

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Tuesday Night WSOP Poker on ESPN - Photos

Date: Tue, Sep 21, 2010 Professional Tournament

2010 WSOP Main Event Day 5 ESPN feature table

Day 5 of the 2010 Main Event at the Rio Resort in Las Vegas begins with 574 players remaining in the hunt for poker's most elusive treasure, the World Champion Poker Player's Bracelet. Of course, it's a fair assumption that the $8.9 million in cash awaiting the winner in November probably does provide a degree or two of motivation.

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Poker Community Saddened by Death of Child

Date: Fri, Sep 17, 2010 Professional Tournament

Sadly we report the passing of Apollo Jett, the four-year-old son of professional poker playersChip and Karina Jett. The youngster died Tuesday morning from injuries sufferedina poolaccident days earlier.

The entire poker industry has come togetherin show of supportfor Chip and KarinaJett during this most difficult oftimes.

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Tuesday Night WSOP Poker on ESPN 9PM ET

Date: Tue, Sep 14, 2010 Professional Tournament

Day 4 of the 2010 WSOP Main Event began with 1203 players ready for the dance. Today will be the money day, when 775 players remain in the hunt, each guaranteed to leave with at least $19,263 in cash. Another possible record sees four brothers, of course, it's the Mizachi brothers, Michael, Robert, Eric and Donny hoping to cash this day.

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