Want to meet the man who came to Las Vegas with $6,000 and ended up winning over $1 million within 6 months -- all in video poker?
Not only can you meet him, but poker guru Bob Dancer will be teaching classes on all the games he plays (to the tune of 800,000 hands per year). And during each, maybe he'll even discuss everything else that factors into successful video poker playing -- like casino comps, points, promotions, and other freebies.
And ironically enough, it's being taught for free... at a casino.
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Phil Ivey, former Full Tilt Poker superstar
Luciaetta Ivey, ex-wife of Phil Ivey, filed a petition with the Nevada Supreme Court last week alleging the judge in her divorce from the poker player was compromised. Apparently the family court judge, Bill Gonzales, received campaign contributions from Phil Ivey plus additional contributions from Ivey's lawyer, David Chesnoff.
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Over 50 million people play Zynga poker every day, with over 215 million playing every month.
That's a lot of poker players, and you know Zynga is just waiting for the day when online poker becomes legal in the U.S.
So far though, you can play for free via Facebook or other social networks.
And if you're in Las Vegas this weekend, you can attend Zynga's very first Poker Con.
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Dick Butkus appears weekly at the Field of Dreams Sports & Memorabilia in the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace
Meet Dick Butkus, the NFL legend that defined the image of defensive players in the professional football league. Butkus wore #51 for the Chicago Bears during the sixties and seventies when the Central division was known as the "black and blue division."
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Norm Chad surveys late night fans surrounding the tournament area
Tuesday Night means poker. Invite your poker buddies over for a group lesson in high stakes tournament poker, the 2010 WSOP Main Event.
Tonight's installment of the march to the November Nine features the Prince of Poker, Scotty Nguyen, 1998 Main Event Champion and holder of five WSOP gold bracelets. Past WSOP Main Event Champions Johnny Chan, Dan Harrington and reigning champion, Joe Cada, continue to stack chips.
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Norm Chad surveys late night fans surrounding the tournament area
Tuesday Night means poker. Invite your poker buddies over for a group lesson in high stakes tournament poker, the 2010 WSOP Main Event.
Tonight's installment of the march to the November Nine features the Prince of Poker, Scotty Nguyen, 1998 Main Event Champion and holder of five WSOP gold bracelets. Past WSOP Main Event Champions Johnny Chan, Dan Harrington and reigning champion, Joe Cada, continue to stack chips.
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Carrot Top
It may have been less than the past two years, but Jerry Lewis still brings in the donations even in a tough economy.
His annual Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon from South Point Hotel & Casino pulled in $58.9 million, concluding today after a marathon 21.5 hours.
It's his 5th year at South Point, and the MDA has been running annually for 45 years. Las Vegas performers Barry Manilow and Carrot Top also joined.
South Point Resort Las Vegas
A Labor Day tradition, The Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon, begins Sunday at 9PM ET on a TV channel in your city. The 2010 Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon is coming live for 21 continuous hours from the South Point Resort in Las Vegas.
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Monte Carlo Las Vegas
Saturday night marked the end of a fourteen year run for master magician, Lance Burton, at the Monte Carlo Resort on the Las Vegas Strip.
A critically acclaimed showman, Burton is said to have decided to terminate his show contract after hotel management requested a cut in the production's budget. With Las Vegas rapidly running out of magic men we expect to see Lance Burton reappearing any day now at a new strip address.
At the risk of becoming the ParisHiltonParisHilton blog, we hear that Paris Hilton has been booted from Wynn Las Vegas.
With an apparent zero tolerance policy for drugs (or needing to distance themselves for stockholders), Hilton has been banned from both Wynn and Encore, following her arrest for cocaine possession over the weekend.
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