Sam's Town Sports Book
Sam's Town! Why?... What do you get if you cross the age-old game of scrabble with professional football's championship game? You get a prop bet that's so complicated they're still trying to figure out the winners and losers.
In the simplest of terms the bet is based on the total number of scrabble points in the last name of the player scoring the 1st touchdown OV/UN. The total number of scrabble points is 15 OV/UN. Ties are No Action.
Points equivalent for letters follows:
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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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A bountiful harvest spills from a large cornucopia basket at the Bellagio Conservatory & Botanical Garden
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2011 WSOP November Nine with Jack Effel, Tournament Director
Today begins the long awaited conclusion of the 2011 WSOP Main Event final table that went on break in July after reaching the final nine players.
Eight of the nine players will leave millionaires while the first out will pocket just over three quarters of a million dollars. The winner takes home the World Poker Championship title, almost nine million in cash plus poker's most elusive treasure, the gold and diamond championship bracelet.
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Wynn Las Vegas is suing two craps players that won $700,000 at the resort after claiming they were using a system of "dice sliding" to control the odds of winning. The method involves holding one of the die with the six spots up, then sliding it across the table without hitting the backboard. The second die is tossed as usual and rebounds off the backboard.
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Howard Lederer and Chris "Jesus" Ferguson at the 2010 WSOP
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Las Vegas will benefit from legal online poker
Wednesday the Nevada Gaming Control Board published proposed regulations intended to establish state regulations for legal online gaming, namely online poker. This set of guides was produced to satisfy the 2011 Nevada Legislature Assembly Bill 258.
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Benny Binion purchased the Eldorado Club and the Apache Hotel in 1951, remodeled both joints into one casino that he opened as the Horseshoe and went on to make the property the most profitable per square foot in the state. Binion was the first to offer free drinks to all gamblers, add carpet to the casino floor, provide air conditioning and an elavator to the second floor guest rooms.
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Doyle Brunson at play during the 2010 WSOP
Never known as one to back down from a fight or turn tail and run, the grandmaster of poker, Doyle Brunson, believes the whole of the poker industry is primed for the inevitable fight with the DOJ over the legality of online poker rooms. The fed lawyers are just as determined to eradicate the online poker scourge from the webscape of the U.S. of A.
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Ten handed final table of the 2010 WSOP Main Event click for gallery image
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