Other places for great content
With the LasVegasVegas project winding down, here are a few excellent resources for poker and vegas related content.
Poker:
Poker Player Newspaper - Lots of poker news and strategy.
Pokerati - Excellent Poker Blog.
Bill Rini - A poker industry insider with great insights.
Vegas:
2 Way Hard 3: A great and fun Vegas Blog from the fine folks at Rate Vegas.
The Die Is Cast (David G. Schwartz): Blog of the UNLV Director of the Center for Gaming Research.
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Boulder Highway Gambling Profits Up
Eastside Cannery on the Boulder Strip
Boulder Strip delivered the best numbers while the Nevada gaming industry statewide pulled in almost 6% more than last year. Boulder Strip trumped the bunch with a 23% year-over-year increase. Boulder Station, Sam's Town, Eastside Cannery, Joker's Wild, Green Valley Ranch, Sunset Station and M Resort are included in the Boulder Strip stats.
Wendeen H. Eolis Goes to the Movies
Wendeen H. Eolis
$35 room rate for World Series of Poker players
If you’re playing the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas (May 28-July 9), there’s no better place to stay than the host casino, Rio Las Vegas.
All the hotel rooms are roomy suites.
You can spend your breaks in your room rather than with thousands of others.
You don’t need to rely on cabs or car rentals to get you there on time.
You can get in a quick nap before the second-chance tourney.
Gunfight at Rio Resort Las Vegas Injures Three
Parking garage located at lower left below Rio sign was scene of gunfight on top floor
Bring a friend, get a free Step at Tropicana poker room
Play Poker at Tropicana Las Vegas
The Tropicana poker room is the only live place where you can play Step tournaments, starting with a $10+2 single table satellite and, assuming you win, possibly advancing you all the way to Step 5 with a $10,000 World Series of Poker seat awarded.
Wendeen H. Eolis Continues Online Poker Series
Wendeen H. Eolis
Wendeen H. Eolis delivers a current state of affairs concerning online poker with her latest in-depth study of the age old question, "Is poker a game of skill or luck?" Most of us poker players know the correct answer to this question; but, the official (and legal) decision remains in the hands of lawyers, judges and the federal court system.
"Poker After Dark" runs off remaining episodes
NBC's Poker after Dark going same way as NBC's Heads Up Poker?
The NBC series “Poker After Dark” is set to return on March 5.
But not with new episodes, just unaired episodes that were shot in December 2010.
Twenty-four shows featuring cash games and 6 shows featuring sit-n-gos will be run off on the NBC Sports Network over the next 5 weeks.
The series, featuring known poker players playing in Las Vegas, was always interesting and entertaining.
Wendeen H. Eolis pulls back the curtain with 'PokerStars: Walls Of Secrecy Tumble'
Wendeen Eolis, the "Grande Dame" of Poker, continues to uncover and untangle the web of legal and political maneuvers by major players in the online poker world. In the latest installment she looks at the big bosses of Poker Stars and the PPA; demystifying the direction and motivations of the power players and the organizations they control.
Read the whole story: PokerStars: Walls Of Secrecy Tumble
Step tournaments now at Tropicana poker room
For those with fond memories of ye olde online poker days of Step Tournaments (made popular by PokerStars and Full Tilt), the first land-based casino we know of in Las Vegas is now offering its own version.
Tropicana Las Vegas is trying out Step poker tournaments, where for a small amount of money, you can keep advancing as you win, ultimately ending at a $10,000 prize (which is conveniently the cost of a World Series of Poker Main Event seat). Along the way, if you don’t win but place, you’ll receive a tournament ticket to a lower Step.
