The “Prince of poker” Scotty Nguyen won the $50,000 HORSE world champion event the other day at this year’s World Series of Poker. It marks the first time a former Main Event winner has also won this prestigious event as well. (Scotty won the main event back in 1998)
He beat out some of the top […]
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Today starts the 2008 WSOP. It kicks off a little different this year with a $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold’em for the first event, instead of a $1500 no limit like the last few years. This year they wanted to have a couple of more “pro” events and some other games that have fallen out of favor, such […]
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One thing I, among other people “in the know” have been touting for quite a while is the value of downtown Las Vegas. As prices have escalated on the strip and many of the older more reasonable places have closed, the notion is that there’s no more places for the “average” person anymore here.
Well, I’m […]
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Harrah’s announced the other day that they will be delaying the final table of the world Series of Poker $10,000 Main Event final Table for…..16 weeks???? Are you kidding me? 4 months??? I’m sure someone at Harrah’s thought this was a good idea, but I’m not so sure. Could you imagine this happening with other […]
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So this time I’m gonna show what it’s like to be a high roller & win millions! (well maybe dozens!)
The game of choice for us locals is predominately video poker. Really the only ones that play slots are tourists.
One of the weirdest things about moving here was seeing video poker machines basically everywhere! Yes, they’re in […]
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