Monthly Archives: March 2006

Start Betting on the 2006 Irish Poker Open

The final poker game is going to be shown on Sky Sports 2 on Easter Monday at 9 pm. Hurry up to bet for the poker players! Paddy Power, who has proved to be ready both to accept and present innovations, who has proved to be punter-friendly will accept your bets for the players who reach the final but are not winners, and the bets placed before the beginning of the tournament will be refunded outright. If you have placed your bet for the player who does not take part in the final event, you bet will be refunded as well. At the time of the TV show Paddy Power will run the betting. So, you can bet outright, and as registrations proceed other market hosts will appear.
The address where you can place your bets online is Paddypower.com You can find out prices in the sports section or just visit Paddy Power’s shops in Ireland or in the UK. Unfortunately bets from the USA are not accepted.

Any Wish to Bet? – Online Poker

Online poker is rather popular nowadays and it makes billion fortunes for the cyber casinos and their owners, jackpots are growing in spite of the fact that today its legality is being doubted and discussed in the USA. In case you are seeking for a poker game there’s no problem as plenty of sites run their gambling business day and night all year round. It doesn’t matter where you live in. Simply acquire a computer and surf the Internet. Be sure you’ll find a poker game on the Internet 24/ 7.

Online poker is rather popular as there is an opportunity to play and to bet at any time, there is no need to wear a dinner-jacket, and it presents a splendid chance to spend your spare time even not leaving the house. That’s why seeing Josh Savilisky at home but being completely sober, clean and wearing trousers was pleasant.

Having two part-time jobs he manages to play Internet poker approximately six hours a day. He is just a usual waiter at work, lonely at home since he is a bachelor, but as soon as he logs on to PartyPoker.com and becomes one of the 30 poker players in Texas Hold’Em tournament. He is an amateur international gambler known as Crossmen04 whose different game was made famous by different channels such as BRAVO (“Celebrity Poker Showdown” program), The Travel Channel (“World Poker Tour”), and cable television ESPN (the World Series of Poker).

Aztar to be purchased by Pinnacle for $1.45 bln

As it was reported on Monday Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. would buy Tropicana-owner Aztar Corp. for about $1.45 billion, all the outstanding shares of Aztar for $38 (by the way Aztar shares were up $7.10, or 23 percent, at $37.77 in morning trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Pinnacle was up $2.19, or 7.8 percent, at $30.20). The company is ready to pay in cash. The purchase will make it possible for Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. having properties in Indiana, Nevada, Louisiana and Argentina but possessing no casinos in Las Vegas to extend the power into the markets of Las Vegas and Atlantic City.

As the company claims the deal will cover about $723 million in Aztar debt and will surely give 24% over Aztar’s closing price, defined on March 10.

According to William Schmitt’s words – an analyst at CIBC World Markets – the company is going to pay up, what is explained by the fact that the lands owned by Aztar in Las Vegas are rather costly.

The analysts say that the takeover deal is the largest one in the gambling business since the previous year Pinnacle’s positions that were not welcomed and obviously dwarfed by Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. and MGM Mirage Inc. that couldn’t let the third but a smaller chain enter the two largest casino markets in the USA.
That deal made Pinnacle the world’s largest casino operator after Caesars Entertainment Inc.(the possession of Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. ) was closed and MGM Mirage bought out Mandalay Resort Group.

$30 million contract signed by James and Arizona

The fact that Arizona Cardinals had the worst season in the NFL last year didn’t stop Edgerrin James from signing a four-year contract with them on Sunday. He explains his decision by his risky character, by the absence of fear to do something different in this life. His nature of a poker player cannot let him miss the chance. The sum of the contract runs as high as $30 million.

Having played seven seasons with the Colts, James, the two-time league rushing champion, became free-agent. He clearly understood that there was almost no chance to be taken to Indianapolis after an unlucky season that was lost to Pittsburgh in the AFC divisional round. Though having set team records for rushing attempts (2,188), yards (9,226) and touchdowns (64) James left the Colts. As Bill Polian, the president of the Colts, admitted, he had some risk by having made the decision against putting the franchise label on James what made possible for him to enter the free-agent market.

The game without Peyton Manning, Marvin Harrison and Reggie Wayne will be completely different, but James claims that Cardinals possess very good players as well. To them he refers Kurt Warner, Anquan Boldin and Larry Fitzgerald.

No doubt Arizona’s acquisition was the most striking news of the day, even in comparison with some other contracts, like that offered to Steve Hutchinson by Minnesota. His seven-year deal is worth $49 million, with guaranteed $16 million. In such a way the Vikings tended to upgrade having made the richest offer for a guard in NFL history.

WR Antwaan Randle El was also signed by the Redskins to a seven-year contract being worth $31 million, while Christian Fauria who had spent four years with New England signed a deal with Washington.

Drew Brees, a free-agent quarterback, having visited the Saints in New Orleans, left for Miami to have negotiations with the Dolphins.

Academy Rewards Leased by Online Casino GoldenPalace.com

Online Casino GoldenPalace known for such things like Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s baby scan, Virgin Mary grilled cheese sandwiches and many other amazing stunts and performances naturally wants nothing but always to appear in the headlines. To lose their spot is to lose their fame. And it’s high time for Hollywood to make a movie about the casino that always possesses plenty of interesting ideas to make them be noticed. One of the recent ideas is to go after an Academy Award, by leasing it.

GoldenPalace spokesperson Drew Black reports that they had an attempt of buying an Oscar Award, but the attempt failed, since there is an agreement that tells that Awards given in the years following 1951 cannot be sold.

The failure did not disappoint the online casino but vice versa the situation made people work creatively. The attention was paid to the Award given in 1960 to Morris Stoloff for the score in the musical “Song Without End” which the online casino decided to lease, as nothing is said about leasing in the agreement. The deal is said to be about $30,000.

The primary sum the casino was ready to pay for Margaret O’Brien’s Oscar for Outstanding Juvenile Performer of 1944 ran as high as $100,000, but Margaret refused having motivated her decision by her daughter’s wish to possess it after her death. Having been offered leasing O’Brien said it might be possible the following year.

In fact, it must be added that Morris Stoloff’s Academy Award was leased by the casino for the following 999 years, and the latest purchase should be sent to the casino’s recent invention, traveling museum exhibiting different queer things.

Drew Black claims that the casino is eager to lease all kinds of Awards including Oscar, Grammy, Emmy and Golden Globe, and wants all the winners to know about it. Black adds that their offer to Ms. O’Brien remains valid.

Half a Million Theft from Casino, Paying Back Plea Bargain by Selling House

A financial controller who used to work for a casino, Paul Theodore Del Vacchio by name, a forty-year-old man, from Murrieta, CA, was arrested last year on a charge of embezzlement-related and identity theft crimes (in all 26 charges). Besides he was charged with using the casino chef’s private information. During the investigation it was found out that the man had spent all the stolen money on gambling. Del Vacchio pleaded
guilty to all of the charges.

The theft was discovered by his bank when their attention was drawn by a few thousands dollar transfer from the casino account to Del Vacchio’s ATM cards. The embezzlement was committed in 2003, and the casino management was immediately informed. As a result an inner investigation was undertaken.

According to the official notices Paul Theodore Del Vacchio will be sentenced on the 21^st of April to 4 years of imprisonment. Judge James T. Warren suggested Del Vacchio to sell his house to a private buyer to pay back his plea bargain. The proposed cost of the house is said to be about $535,000, that is the sum to be returned to Del Vacchio’s ex-employers.

Tears of the disabled woman in Circus Circus

Gail Morrison, a 70-year-old woman, suffering from post-polio syndrome has to use a scooter to travel. She cannot help being upset every time she remembers the event that took place just after the New Year’s Day. She says she was going to have dinner with her family at the Circus Circus Hotel and Casino.

In accordance with Morrison’s claims, having arrived she had problems with parking her scooter.  Gail was asked by the hostess to park the scooter at the door not to block the way. Naturally she was not strong enough to walk further. Morrison did moved the scooter over but the hostess was not still pleased. It goes without saying Gail Morrison was unhappy to experience those disgusting feelings of being in the way. Having left the restaurant in tears the woman was persuaded by the members of her family to dine inside the Steakhouse. Having entered the room she was offered a seat at the back of the restaurant.

Circus Circus, and the disability rights group, Nevadans for Equal Access received Morrison’s filed complaints online. The group, in its turn wrote a letter addressed to Circus Circus management claiming that they have failed to carry out the Americans with Disabilities Act as they were disable to seat Morrison. The Circus Circus Hotel and Casino management replied that the Steakhouse did the best to carry out the ADA, and it was completely employee’s failure who was unaware of the accommodation requirements suggested by the ADA. The hotel and casino assured of the absence of similar incidents in future.

The president of NEA, Paul Martin, stated that such incidents should not happen. He, having worked many years at the problem of making Sin City resorts accessible to the disabled, can remember numerous cases when the disabled could not be accommodated, in spite of the fact that the landmark ADA law was passed sixteen years ago.

Harrah’s is blocked out by Wynn in Macau

Macau being a former Portuguese colony and China’s gambling enclave is experiencing a battle of control that strongly reminds of a cruel and aggressive fight.

Casino operator Wynn Resorts planning to open its Wynn Macau resort on September 5, announced their decision to sell the right to build a casino resort in Macau to Australian media and entertainment group Publishing and Broadcasting the value of which runs as high as $900 million and five times exceeds its forecast sum.

Obviously the above agreement does not spoil Wynn’s plans to construct its own casinos in Macau, and it helps to prevent the world’s largest casino operator, Gary W. Loveman’s Harrah’s Entertainment, from entering Macau gambling business.
Wynn’s license was the last one available in the former colony until at least 2009. The decision made is explained by Wynn’s vital focus in Macau and their willingness to enhance the future opportunities of the former Portuguese colony, and having allowed PBL to enter the business they definitely made an outstanding attempt to improve, upgrade and expand the quality of investment there. In the end future positive perspectives of the gambling business in Macau are associated with future positive perspectives for Wynn Resorts.

Primary Source Report of the Breathtaking Multimillion Poker Game

The story took place in February at Wynn, Las Vegas. Andy Beal, a Texan banker, who is said to have made a billion fortune, took part in the greatest head-to-head poker game. Playing in rotation against the best, first-class high-stakes poker players on the Earth, such as Phil Ivey, Jennifer Harman, Todd Brunson, and Ted Forrest, Andy Beal set $20 million on a cast!

Within the month Andy Beal competed with many players, and the stakes made up $30,000-$60,000 and $50,000-$100,000. So, on average the hand pot was over $300,000 while the largest pot amounted to $1.9 million. There were 20 of the best poker players in the world there ready to play, but the stakes were amazingly high, and they had nothing to do but to pool their bankrolls. The game couldn’t be started unless either side had $10 million on the table with some more millions having been reserved. There were three series of matches in February but within a day they could either win or lose up to $10 million, and a session had two $8 million swings.

The game described is said to be the richest poker game of all the time with the greatest installment. It’s surprising but being an owner of one of the most profitable Texan banks, Andy Beal used to be a pretty shy and modest person who was fond of theoretical mathematics and astrophysics. In 2001 Andy Beal discovered a new hobby for himself – playing poker. We can count six occasions between the years of 2001-2004 when he played one-on-one by rotation against the high-stakes professionals. Despite Andy’s numerous losses in those games, he became a top-class high-stakes heads-up poker player whose winning within a five-day period made up $5.5 million and another time within a day he won $12 million.

The games with such astronomical sums can be called historically important in the poker world. And it’s natural that there was only one person who might table side document those events – Bluff poker columnist Michael Craig – the author of The Professor, The Banker and The Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time (Warner Books, June 2005). Being rather an important and respected personality he assisted in the arrangement of the high-stake rematch and willingly agreed to document the 2006 poker games.