Poker news tagged with 'las vegas'

The BankrollMob & Party Poker WSOP promotion has ended. Around 1500 players managed to "scratch their way" via our daily WSOP scratch game, into one of the daily qualifiers. From the daily qualifiers, 162 players qualified to our "Main WSOP Tournament" which was played yesterday, June 6th.

Top 20 prizes were as follows:

• 1st - WSOP Package worth $14,000
• 2nd-5th - $640 Party Million tournament ticket
• 6th-10th - $215 $300K Guaranteed tournament ticket
• 11th-15th - Super Weekday tournament ticket
• 16th-20th - $70 MM qualifier tournament ticket

The last player standing was Manuela from Bremen, Germany. Also known as Mama63 on BankrollMob. She won the $14,000 WSOP ticket and will be going to Las Vegas soon for the WSOP Main Event.

We asked Manuela a few questions just minutes after she won the tournament, here are the answers as translated from German...

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The businessman Terrance Watanabe has lost more money at a commercial casino than anyone else has ever done before - according to professor and gambling expert William Thompson at University of Nevada. As you probably already have figured out, it's not small amounts we're talking about here. Terrance Watanabe has lost $204 million in just 1 year at different casinos in Las Vegas. Not enough with that. Terrance is now also risking 28 years behind bars for a false check he issued, in order to pay off his debts of 14.7 million dollars, to Harrah's casino Rio and Caesars Palace.

According to Terrance, he's not owe them anything as they had promised to give him a 30% discount on everything he lost. Terrance has also opened a civil rights case against Harrah's. He claims that they have been giving him prescription drugs, alcohol and other things to keep him happy while losing millions of dollars. However, he has accepted the fact that he has a problem with his gambling and he doesn't want any of the money he lost back.

We will probably hear more about this very soon as the case will be up in court on the 12th of June.

 

The Ivey Room, a new poker room for high stakes poker games, opened up at Aria Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas last weekend. As you probably already have figure out the poker room has borrowed the name of the world's most successful poker player, Phil Ivey. The Ivey Room celebrated its opening by having a $1,000,000 VIP tournament where the player who knocked out Phil Ivey got $100,000. The winner of the tournament got the chance to play a heads-up against Phil Ivey for $250,000.

Chino Reem was the one who knocked out Phil Ivey from the tournament, and Larry Litton won the tournament and got to play against Phil Ivey. However, he didn't manage to beat Phil Ivey heads up. We will probably hear a lot more about The Ivey Room during the 2010 WSOP.

 

Lots of money in the bank and looking for a luxury house in Las Vegas? Then this house might be something for you. Phil Ivey's house in Vegas is for sale at the moment to the prize of $1,995,000. The house is located in one of Las Vegas finest neighborhoods (lots of celebes living in this area - Andre Agassi, Tomas Breitling, Michael Jackson's doctor (the 1 whose in court at the moment) - Dr Conrad Murray and many more) next to a luxury golf course. The house was built 2001 and it has 4 garages, 6 bathrooms, 3 bedrooms, a pool and much more.

So why is Phil selling his house? Does it have something to do with his divorce last year? Maybe he's fed up with the house and want to get rid of it? He's for sure not selling it because he needs the money. That's 100% sure! 

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Joseph R. "Joe" Francis is an American entrepreneur known as the founder of Mantra Films, Inc., which produces the Girls Gone Wild and Guys Gone Wild DVD series. A while ago, he went to the police and told them that Steve Wynn, a billionaire who owns a huge part of Las Vegas and also been voted one of the worlds most influential persons by Time Magazine, has threatened to kill him and bury him in the desert.

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Yesterday, NBC revealed all information about the sixth season of the National Heads-up Poker Championship. 64 players will meet up at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on 4th March and play for a piece of the $1,5 million dollar prize pool. Host for this event will be no one less than Leeann Tweeden (picture), host of Poker After Dark. Now, take a deep breath before checking the participants list below.

Mike Matusow
, Jason Mercier
, Dario Minieri
, Chris Moneymaker
, Darvin Moon
Greg, Mueller, 
Daniel, Negreanu
Scotty Nguyen, 
Annette Obrestad, 
Brock Parker
, Dennis Phillips, 
Greg Raymer
, Vanessa Rousso
, Kara Scott
, Huck Seed,
 Erik Seidel, 
Mike Sexton
, Gavin Smith
, Jennifer Tilly, 
Paul Wasicka, 
David Williams, 
Leo Wolpert
, Jerry Yang, Patrick Antonius, 
Eric Baldwin, 
Andy Bloch, 
Doyle Brunson, 
Joe Cada, 
Johnny Chan
, Don Cheadle, 
Allen Cunningham
, Pieter De-Korver
, Annie Duke
Tom Dwan
, Peter Eastgate, 
Eli Elezra
, Antonio Esfandiari, 
Sam Farha, 
Chris Ferguson, 
Ted Forrest, 
Jamie Gold, 
Phil Gordon, 
Barry Greenstein
, Bertrand Grospellier, 
Joe Hachem, 
Gus Hansen
, Jennifer Harman
, Phil Hellmuth, 
Orel Hershiser, 
Jesper Hougaard
, Phil Ivey, 
John Juanda, 
Gabe Kaplan,
John Paul, Kelly
, Phil Laak, 
Howard Lederer, 
Erick Lindgren

Payout structure:
1) $500,000
2) $250,000
3-4) $125,000
5 - 8) $75,000
9-16) $25,000

 

It's once again time for another big charity poker tournament. This time in the capital of the world when it comes to gambling, Las vegas. The charity tournament is scheduled to kick off 12th December at Hard Rock Casino. The tournament is set to benefit The One Step Close Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose main goal is to have an impact on the lives of those suffering from cerebral palsy by working with support groups, individuals who have CP, and by providing money for research.

The buy-in for the tournament will be $500+$50 and there will be unlimited $200 rebuys the first 90 minutes. Half of the money will go to charity and the second half will go to the prizepool. Some of the bigger names that will take part in the tournament are Phil Laak, Jamie Gold, Doyle Brunson, Eli Elezera, Men "The Master" Nguyen, Freddy Deeb, and Scotty Nguyen.

 

If you love the surroundings of luxurary casinos and planning on getting married, but don't like the idea of a old traditional type of wedding. Then Las Vegas, Nevada, probably is the best place for you to get married. The marriage industry in Las Vegas is just getting bigger and bigger every year. There are hundreds of sites and companies offering lots of different wedding packages. For example, you can get married with "Elvis Presley" as priest, get married in a private helicopter with the view of Las Vegas by night, or why not dress up as a medieval prince and princess at the Canterbury Chapel in the Excalibur hotel? These are just three examples on how you can get married in Las Vegas.

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Darvin Moon, the chip leader in the Main Event of World Series of poker 2009 have no interested in signing any contract with any poker site. And it doesn't matter if they try to draw with millions of dollars and nice hotel rooms in Las Vegas.

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Earlier this year we reported that a couple of land based casinos were going to try out the new PokerTek tables which are electronic and do not require a live dealer. One of the casinos who have tried this out is the Excalibur Casino in Las Vegas.

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A professional poker player in USA is suspected to have killed both his parents. But the poker player denies and claims that he's innocent. The motive for murdering both his parents is that the poker player had a lot of debts and wanted to inheritance his their fortune of $1,3 million dollars.

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Jody Garaventa, a 33-year old poker professional form North Carolina managed to turn his $10.000 stake into $300.000 by taking down the first price in the World Series of Golf in Las Vagas.

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At day 3 of the World Poker Tour Championship at the Bellagio in Las Vegas there were 162 players remaining. These 162 players were going to fight for a place at the final table where the winner will be awarded with $2,143,655. Due to the fact that most of the players still have huge stacks compared to the blinds the action has been pretty slow the first two days but that changed at day 3. At the end of day 3 more than half the field had been knocked out and there are now only 62 players left that have to come back to play day 4.

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Michael Phelps recently went on a trip to Las Vegas with some of his friends to stay at a huge suite at the Palms Hotel & Casino. During his stay he contacted Doyle Brunson and asked to meet up with the poker legend. They met up at the Palms and according to Doyle the swimmer was very enthusiastic and eager to learn more about poker, he asked a lot of questions and showed a huge interest in poker. Rumour has it that Phelps said that the only things that interest him are to eat, swim and to play poker.

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