Phil Hellmuth Column Now Available at Card Shark Media
Phil Hellmuth's Hand of the Week, the syndicated poker column by all-time World Series of Poker Champion Phil Hellmuth, is now available from Card Shark Media LLC.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Dream Team Poker Lines Up Caesars Palace Players
Dream Team Poker today announced the team lineup for their upcoming tournament to be held at the prestigious poker room at Caesars Palace Las Vegas from March 27-29, 2009. With only 10 days left to register, the event is exceeding capacity, has surpassed expectations and has become the most anticipated tournament of 2009.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Circus Online Casino Now Accepts Non-UK Players
Genting Stanley who operates CircusCasino.com and CircusPoker.co.uk has announced the opening of its doors to international players from outside the UK. This announcement is expected to greatly benefit members of the Genting Stanley affiliate program "Genting Affiliates," which is part of the Income Access affiliate network.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
St. Patrick's Day Luck Strikes Wheel of Fortune Slot Player
The luck of the Irish certainly held true for Joseph A. Finnegan on St. Patrick's Day when the New York man with a legendary Irish surname won a nearly half a million dollar MegaJackpot® on a Wheel of Fortune® dollar slot machine at Spa Resort Casino.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Vegas Expecting Smaller Crowd for March Madness
A visit by Tim Taylor won't save the beleaguered Las Vegas economy, no matter how much he manages to lose betting on college basketball. But Taylor and thousands like him in town this week should at least provide a temporary boost to everything from room rates to tips for dealers, servers and bellhops.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Station Casinos Seeking Mid-April Bankruptcy Protection
Station Casinos Inc. revealed in court papers this week that it expects to file for bankruptcy protection on or before April 15, the date a debt forbearance agreement expires and five days after the deadline for bondholders to vote on Station's current debt-exchange offer.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Arizona Casino Opens 58 New Jobs and Looking to Hire
The Fort McDowell Casino east of Fountain Hills has openings for 50 part-time and eight full-time jobs.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Las Vegas Odds and Opinion of March Madness
If understood properly, Las Vegas odds offer compelling insight into the NCAA Basketball Tournament. RJ Bell of Pregame.com provides some great bits of information.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Devilfish Poker Hosts European Masters Qualification
DevilfishPoker.com today announced its European Masters of Poker™ qualification where players can win €1,800 packages to the second leg of the five-stop tour taking place in Varna, Bulgaria from April 15 to 18.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Wynn Issues Price of Common Stock Shares
Wynn Resorts, Limited announced today that it has priced a public offering of 9,600,000 newly issued shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $19 per share. The net proceeds to Wynn Resorts, after deducting discounts and commissions and estimated expenses, will be approximately $175 million.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Cryptologic and Paramount Announce Multi-year Agreement
CryptoLogic Limited, a world leader in Internet casino and branded gaming software, today announced a multi-year agreement with Paramount Digital Entertainment that will bring some of the most famous movie characters in history to the Internet casino world beginning in the fourth quarter of 2009.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Full Tilt's World Series of Poker Promotions
The 2009 World Series of Poker is just around the corner and Full Tilt Poker is covering the action from all angles. In addition to regular live updates from the Series, players will have multiple opportunities to win their way to Las Vegas.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
PokerStars Announces Grand Opening of Live Poker Room in Macau
PokerStars, the world's largest poker company, is pleased to announce the grand opening of the new "PokerStars Macau at the Grand Lisboa" live poker room at the Grand Lisboa Casino on 19 March 2009.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
MGM Mirage Offers Casinos as Credit Security While CityCenter Construction Continues
MGM Mirage, seeking to modify lending terms on its unsecured debt and avoid default as gambling activity withers, is in talks with banks to pledge casinos as loan collateral, a person with knowledge of the discussions said.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Perfect Bracket or Not, Intertops Paying Out for March Madness
With the 64 teams announced this weekend, office pools across America and around the world will be adding a little excitement to the US college basketball playoffs this month. Intertops March Madness Bracket will pay $25,000 for the perfect bracket. And perfect bracket or not, Intertops pays out.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Oddsmakers crunching numbers for March Madness
A few minutes after the NCAA Tournament pairings were unveiled Sunday afternoon, Ken White started crunching numbers with his team of oddsmakers at Las Vegas Sports Consultants.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Dane Cook Scheduled Performance at The Pearl Las Vegas
Cook brings his blend of energetic physical comedy, clever wordplay and trenchant observations about human behavior to The Pearl at the Palms Casino Resort with three shows: May 22 at 8:00 p.m., May 23 at 11:00 p.m. and May 24, 2009 at 8:00 p.m.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Lucky18 Blackjack Tournament Final Advances Three More
Three more victors in Lucky18Casino.com's March Madness Blackjack Tournament advanced to the April 15th Championship after making it to the "final four" in Monday night's qualifier. The fourth winner this Monday had already won his way to the final table by winning last week.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Five Star World Poker Classic and World Poker Tour World Championship Returns to Bellagio in April
The Five Star World Poker Classic tournament returns to Bellagio Wednesday, April 1 with the first of 13 No Limit Hold-em tournaments. The WPT World Championship begins Saturday, April 18 and Sunday, April 19 at noon with two separate flights. The event continues Monday, April 20 with all competitors who have retained chips from their original allocation and concludes with the televised final table Saturday, April 25.
Monday, March 16, 2009
National Kidney Foundation Tournament a Huge Success
Professional poker player Jennifer Harman hosted two days of fundraising activities in Reno, Nevada last week, raising more than $111,000 for the National Kidney Foundation (NKF).
Monday, March 16, 2009
San Jose Poker Rooms to Reach Legal Settlement
The proposed settlement, which the City Council will consider March 24, would allow the Garden City and Bay 101 clubs to continue 24-hour operations but would limit individual gamblers to 20 consecutive hours at the tables.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Venetian Grand Canal Green for St. Patrick's Day Celebration
At 10 a.m. this morning Liam the Leprechaun officially kicked off The Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino’s St. Patrick’s Day celebration with an inaugural gondola ride leading a parade of gondoliers adorned in green sashes, scarves, ribbons, and shamrocks.
Friday, March 13, 2009
PKR Rewards Winning Swedish Player
Swedish PKR stalwart fatboyflex beat off a classy field of 70 participants, including fierce rival Scopey on his way to pocketing over $10,000 in PKR.com's inaugural Saturday Big Shot.
Friday, March 13, 2009
32Red Announces Great Slot Winners in February
32Red Online Casino, part of 32Red Plc and winner of 6 consecutive Best Casino awards, has reported a series of outstanding individual wins that cap a great month for slot players in February.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Boylepoker Player Wins $135,000 Over 10 Days
Boylepoker.com pro, Peter Murphy, is just over halfway through his Multiplier Challenge where he has 11 weeks from January 23 to turn $100 into $10,000 and is firing on all cylinders. No-one expected the dramatic twist in the tail when fellow Boylepoker.com player Adrian McCarthy was inspired by Murphy's challenge, deposited $100, followed Murphy's lead, and after just 10 days had accumulated $135,000.
Friday, March 13, 2009