Venetian Deep Stack I Poker Tournament Attracts NFL Star Calais Cambell

Date: Thu, Feb 17, 2011 Professional Tournament

Calais Cambell, NFL Star #93 Arizona Cardinals' DE

Poker players have another week to participate in the Deep Stack Extravaganza I Poker Tournament at the Venetian Poker Room. This is the original poker tournament that set the standard for lower buy-in events that provide poker players with average bankrolls (you won't have to take out a second mortage to enter) the opportunity to play with larger starting stacks and longer play levels.

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Poker Player Newspaper Promo Video Link

Date: Tue, Feb 8, 2011 Professional Tournament

Mike Caro, the Mad Genius, playing in the 2010 WSOP Main Event

Check out the all new Poker Player Newspaper Promo video.

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2011 Super Bowl Sunday Strip Trip Photos

Date: Mon, Feb 7, 2011 Professional Tournament

Aria at CityCenter Race & Sports Book click for gallery image

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Super Bowl XLV fills Las Vegas Sports Books

Date: Sun, Feb 6, 2011 Professional Tournament

Las Vegas Hilton SuperBook Click for gallery image

Calling the Super Bowl just another football game is like calling a 255 mph Bergatti Veyron just another family sedan. This is the big one, the best of the best slugging it out in the climate controlled confines of the huge Cowboy Stadium in Dallas. Even the commercials are special and guaranteed to keep attention rivited to the TV screen.

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Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza + poker room rates

Date: Tue, Feb 1, 2011 Professional Tournament

Competing with the tail end of the Caesars Winter Poker Classic, the Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza is running now through Feb. 24.

Four times a year, this tournament is one of the best in Las Vegas. We think it's second to the World Series of Poker, in terms of the players it draws, the types of tournaments, the structure, and just how well run the whole thing is.

Events range from $220 super satellites to $340-$550 buy-ins to no-limit hold'em, to the $5,000 main event beginning Feb. 20.

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WSOP 2011 schedule

Date: Mon, Jan 24, 2011 Professional Tournament

November final table of the 2010 WSOP Main Event

Now's the time to start training and getting your body used to Red Bulls, because...

The new World Series of Poker schedule is here! (And you only have 126 days to prepare.)

Beginning May 31 and running through July 19 (with the Main Event on July 7), there will be 58 events (one more than last year) which will make it the largest WSOP in its 42 years.

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Caesars Palace Winter Poker Classic Jan 17 - Feb 5, 2011

Date: Mon, Jan 24, 2011 Professional Tournament

Daily events in the Caesars Palace Winter Poker Classic are happening now at one of the world's most luxurious poker rooms. This is the poker tournament that doesn't require the players to have a play bank the size of a Buick. In fact, many of the events are easily entered with a single Franklin + the obligatory $20 entry fee. There's also $200 + $30 and $300 + $40 events. The Championship event is $500 + $50. There's even a qualifier for the 2011 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship.

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Las Vegas Jobs Available Start Free Search Here

Date: Sun, Jan 23, 2011 Professional Tournament

While we can't provide jobs for everyone unemployed and looking, we do list almost 20,000 openings available right now within a 25 mile radius of Las Vegas. Click on the "Indeed" banner at the top of the page for access to the job openings and begin your search for gainful employment and a pay check.

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Two men exploit bug in video poker machines, defraud casinos

Date: Fri, Jan 7, 2011 Professional Tournament

Two men have been exploiting a bug in video poker machines that took them from Pennsylvania to Las Vegas. Crossing state lines makes it a federal crime, and because of that they’re up for conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

The criminal complaint (PDF published here on Wired.com’s site) states that John Kane and Andre Nestor “knowingly and intentionally defrauded gaming machines” to the tune of $429,000 over 60-some wins, all within a couple months in 2009.

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Happy New Year 2011

Date: Sat, Jan 1, 2011 Professional Tournament

The Las Vegas strip welcomes 2011 Click for gallery image

America's Party welcomed in the New Year with a gigantic fireworks show along the Las vegas Strip. For over eight minutes the colorful bombs exploded over the famous boulevard as hundreds of thousands of revelers said goodbye and good riddance to 2010.

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Night Before Christmas in Las Vegas

Date: Fri, Dec 24, 2010 Professional Tournament

The players were sitting hunched in their seats,

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Hard Times in Las Vegas?

Date: Wed, May 7, 2008 Professional Tournament

photos by flipchip • lasvegasvegas.com

With the national economy playing dead the big Vegas casino companies are reporting 1st Q earnings below last year's record numbers. Record gasoline prices makes the journey to the desert gambling mecca prohibitively expensive for some while arriving visitors are bringing smaller bankrolls. Unfortunately, aeroplanes are the carriage of choice for the majority of Vegas visitors. It's been the life blood of Las Vegas and now those arteries are blocked by post 9/11 fears.

All of this doom and gloom news should cast a pall over Vegas, a dimming of the of the famous Vegas neon. Right? Of course not. This is Vegas, Baby.

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NBC 2008 National Heads-Up Championship Airs Sunday

Date: Fri, Apr 25, 2008 Professional Tournament

photos by flipchip • lasvegasvegas.com

Sunday Noon crank up the Hi-Def and tune it to your local NBC affiliate for some of the best poker you'll ever see on the tube. The third installment of NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship from Caesars Palace Las Vegas will keep you entertained for two hours while you mingle with the who's who of poker players and a few poker playing celebrities. This week you'll see a lot of baseball superstar Orel Hershiser as he rips his way through the ranks of the pro poker community.

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Last year it was Shannon Elizabeth in the celebrity spotlight, this year it belonged to Orel Hershiser. The lanky baseball player is a natural born talent at most everything he does and that includes poker. Hershiser also entertained the players and crowd during breaks with his trademark stories and antics.

Don't miss this Sunday's episode at Noon ET. Check your local listings for exact times in your area. Three more installments remain after this Sunday with a total of seven hours of poker action leading to the 2008 heads-up poker champion.

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For a FlipChip mini photo gallery from the 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship click here.

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