http://marksvegas.com Mark's Las Vegas - MarksVegas.com Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:04:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The final table for the 2008 WSOP Main Event is set. After the final 27 participants were set the other day they played down to the final nine last night. Here's the final nine and their chip counts: 1 Dennis Phillips 26,295,0000 2 Ivan Demidov 24,400,0000 3 Scott Montgomery 19,690,0000 4 Peter Eastgate 18,375,0000 5 Ylon ... http://marksvegas.com/world-series-of-poker-main-event-final-table-set/2008/07/15/ For some reason I've yet to understand the famous statue of casino mogul and Las Vegas pioneer Benny Binion has been moved from it's 20 year home at the corner of Casino Center Blvd and Ogden Ave. in downtown to a spot inside the South Point casino outside the equestrian ... http://marksvegas.com/benny-binion-statue-moved-to-the-southpoint/2008/07/07/ Today's the big day! The $10,000 buy-in World Championship No Limit Hold'em tournament starts today. It's also more well known as the main event. I'm really not sure how many people will be in this year, although I'm thinking it's gonna be less than the 6,358 that entered last year and awarded ... http://marksvegas.com/wsop-main-event-kicks-off-today/2008/07/03/ It was announced today that the Criss Angel Cirque du Soleil show "Believe" which was supposed to open September 12 will now open October 9. The reason given for the delay was technical delays. Probably they are having some issues with the stage setup of the illisions and just needed ... http://marksvegas.com/criss-angel-show-opening-pushed-back/2008/06/30/ Wow! Even though the official start of summer is still a couple of weeks away, you could have fooled me! It's the start of our hot & dry season and the temps will be close to or over 100 degrees for the next few weeks! One weird thing about our seasons is ... http://marksvegas.com/summers-here-and-the-time-is-right/2008/06/15/ As I had previously reported here the Hooters hotel was going to be bought out & turned into a boutique hotel. Well, you can scratch those plans.  According to the LVRJ.com, the prospective new owners missed a scheduled payment and Hooters terminated the deal. They said that they's still consider some ... http://marksvegas.com/hooters-buyout-is-a-no-go/2008/06/11/ Word came down this week that the Crown Las Vegas project was kaput. It was supposed to be built on the former Wet & wild land next to the Sahara at the north end of the strip. Citing a soft financial market, the owners scrapped the 5 billion dollar project ... http://marksvegas.com/another-vegas-megaproject-folds/2008/06/07/ 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 ... http://marksvegas.com/world-series-of-poker-kicks-off-today/2008/05/30/ 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 ... http://marksvegas.com/downtown-las-vegas-is-alive-well/2008/05/17/ The day is finally here! Time for the Rush concert. Anyone that knows me knows that Rush is my all time favorite band. It was great to see them last August at the MGM and when they announced a second leg of the "Snakes and Arrows" tour I just had ... http://marksvegas.com/rush-rocks-las-vegas/2008/05/13/