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March
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Susan
Anton at
the Hilton Theatre Wayne
Newton at
the Wayne Newton Theater Randy
Travis at
the Miain Ballroom Andrea
Bocelli w/ the Russian Symphony Orcheestra at
the Mandalay Bay Event Center
Cirque La Masque at
the Fox Theater The
Temptations at
theShowroom Lorrie
Morgan at
the Showroom
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Featuring 18 separate buy-in events, the Open has been covered by ESPN, A&E, and GQ Magazine. Tournament officials have made it easy and inexpensive for any poker player to play against some of the world's best, including Doyle Brunson, Amarillo Slim, Phil Hellmuth Jr., Scotty Nguyen, and Russ Hamilton. A wide variety of satellites (or mini-tournaments) with entry fees starting at just $45 will be held beginning at Noon on Saturday March 24th. Single table satellites will be held from 8 am to 2 am daily until the Championship event begins at Noon on Wednesday, April 11. Super satellites, where the winners gain entry into the Championship event, are just $120 and will be nightly at 8 pm through April 10. Live action from $3 to $6 and higher continues 24 hours daily in the Horseshoe and Gold Strike poker rooms. World-renown poker consultant Jim Albrecht will be returning as tournament director for the event. Albrecht has managed poker rooms in Las Vegas and served as the tournament director for the World Series of Poker, the Hall of Fame Poker Classic and the United States Poker Championship at the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. Live action, from $30 - $60 and up, also begins in the Gold Strike's well- appointed ballroom on Saturday, March 24 at Noon and will continue 24 hours daily through April 12. Except for the Women's Championship, all World Poker Open Tournament events will be open to the public to players 21 and older and buy-in's vary from $330 to $5,100 per event. Each event will be played in normal "freezeout'' style with play continuing until one player possesses all of the tournament chips. Tables will be combined as players are eliminated and the last remaining player at the final table will be declared the winner of the event. Most tournaments will begin at noon. Event 15 of the tournament, starting at 2:00 P.M. on Sunday, April 8th, will be the Women's Championship Hold'em tournament and costs just $120 to enter. With approximately 65 tables available for tournament play and live action, there will be poker for players at all levels and budgets at the 2nd Annual Jack Binion World Poker Open. A press invitational will be held on Sunday, March 25th at 6:00 P.M. and is open to qualified media and celebrities. The tournament will feature a $2,500 prize pool posted by Horseshoe Casino & Hotel and Gold Strike Casino Resort to be donated to the winner's favorite charity. This invitational tournament offers members of the press the opportunity to feel the excitement of high-stakes tournament action. For more information regarding the press invitational, contact Jennifer Bennett at Gold Strike Casino Resort at (662) 357-1168 or Sheila Stafford at Horseshoe Casino & Hotel at (662) 357-5582. Horseshoe Casino & Hotel and Gold Strike Casino Resort are located 15 minutes south of Memphis, TN in Tunica, MS, the third largest gaming destination in the United States. |
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WENDOVER, NV - Kirk Tolman of Utah missed out on a $7.9 million jackpot because he inserted only two coins into a Megabucks slot machine instead of the required three. The 22-year-old was playing at State Line Hotel Casino in Wendover, Nevada. Tolman says he was talking to a friend and was not paying close attention to the game when he missed the jackpot. "I always play 'max' coins, but I was talking to my friend and wasn't paying attention," says Tolman. With his two-coin bet, Tolman won $10,000 on the $1 slot machine. "I don't know what I would have done if I would have hit it (the big one)," says ATLANTIC CITY, NJ - A $1.5 million progressive slot machine jackpot at the Showboat Casino-Hotel in Atlantic City raised a few concerns for the grandmotherly 82-year-old winner on March 12. Employees got the winner to sign a release that would allow the casino to use her name and photo for promotional purposes, but she had second thoughts. Susan Tulino, director of public relations, said, "She was concerned her neighbors would find out she was now a multimillionaire." The elderly winner told casino officials, "If you put my name in the paper, all these young gigolos would start calling and asking me out. I think I'm content just staying home with my daughter and my cat." The woman was convinced by friends from her retirement village to come to Atlantic City. While her friends played elsewhere in town, the woman remained loyal to Showboat and the Fabulous '50s machine. After all the excitement of hitting the jackpot, the woman was concerned she'd miss her bus ride back, but Tulino arranged for a limo to take her home. "We gave her a copy of the check," Tulino said of the big check used in promotional photographs. "She was concerned it would not fit in the limo." Her daughter said that when she got home that night, she found her mother at the dining room table with all the lights on. Her daughter asked what was wrong, and was then shown the checks. The winner plans to make a charitable donation and to spend some of her winnings on trips to Hawaii and France. |
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