Archive for January 13th, 2012

Of Vuchuu Note: It comes through our friends in this fantastic PóquerAjedrez article Paul Glavine , international chess master.

Although not entirely clear, it appears that among the many legacies of the French culture by the settlers of New Orleans, highlighting a card game called Poker . The first news of this game date back to the early nineteenth century and soon became fashionable along the Mississippi, and ended up drifting in the current poker.

In the beginning was just playing poker or covered draw five cards (five cards to each player covered with a discard from two rounds of betting), but have so little information about the cards held by the rival This was a game more than mischief and psychology of that technique. Soon came different varieties and one of them, the Stud poker took preponderance. In the most common form of Stud seven cards are dealt to each player, four of which were discovered and three decks. We must form the best hand of five cards with five rounds of betting. But then it happened, the players have too much information about the game rival, to hear four of his seven cards. With that, in most hands it was clear who was going ahead, and also went out of fashion.

In the

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The future looks Blu (Stuff)

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To investigate one of the less-publicised benefits of Blu-ray movies, a Sony engineer in Sydney recently attached a copy of Casino Royale to his shoe with Blu Tack.

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The magic of the Orient

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Caesars, MGM, Sands and Wynn Resorts surrender to the Asian market, focusing on Macao: the new Las Vegas.
Despite the crisis in the U.S., groups of casinos and resorts with a presence in Macao are taking historical results.

The last report of the Coordinating Bureau and the Macao Gaming Inspection announced a year revenue increased 57% to 3,000 million dollars just in August.

Now, the growth trend indicates that, at the end of the year, total revenue in Macao will play as five times higher than those in Las Vegas.

Sands China Ltd. and Wynn Macau Ltd. have helped their mother companies to double the revenue in the second quarter.

It is not surprising then that large investments in the most important groups of the game focus on the emerging Chinese market.

A September prinicipios new complex opened the Sands Group, The Venetian Macao Resort, a pharaonic building in which they have invested 2,400 million dollars. The size of the playing area of ​​the Venetian Macao is more than three times larger than the largest casino in Las Vegas. The hotel has 3,000 rooms.

And this is only the first of a series of 14 resorts that the group plans to build Wynn Macao.

Meanwhile, Wynn Resorts has signed a contract with the government to lease land on which to build a second complex, which opened in 2015. The total investment is valued at 2,500 million dollars.

The other two U.S. groups, MGM Resorts and Caesars are pasaando Enterteinment difficulties.

MGM is already present in Macao in Macau and MGM has managed liquidity by selling 9.5% of the company and the middle of a project in Las Vegas with Dubai World. This liquidity allows it to tackle the capitalization of a joint project with local businesswoman Pansy Ho, one of the pioneers in the construction of casinos in Macao, which owns the Hotel Lisboa.

Enterteinment Caesars also had to turn their eyes to the Asian market, but has failed to realize any project in the new gambling mecca, where they only have a golf course.

Therefore, the tactical decision was derived from investments into the Indian market, which is in the city of Goa its unique city in the game, growing 50% annually since 2008.

This is the new horizon of business in the booming Asian market, where none of the four largest business groups in the game wants to lose camber.

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Ben Mezrich pens tale of Facebook’s founders

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Ben Mezrich, whose best-seller “Bringing Down the House” about MIT math geeks who outsmart Vegas casinos inspired the hit film “21,” is returning to the revenge-of-the-nerds genre with a vengeance. It will also be “about Harvard’s Final Clubs,” which are similar to secret societies or exclusive clubs at other Ivy League schools such as Princeton…

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Major satellite JAPE for CEP

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Comes to our mailing a brilliant news from Kiketxu , member of JAPE that once we talked about the legality of poker in Spain.

This weekend is going to perform at Tolosa , 26 kilometers from San Sebastian, a satellite with an expected participation of 80 to 100 people in the seats will be distributed to the CEP San Sebastian of next week.

The tournament will take place on Saturday October 18 to 17 hours in Fronton Beotibar and will have an entry for 40 euros giving 3,000 points initials. In addition, may make a repurchase during the first three levels of 20 euros for 2,000 points .

The requirements for participation in this tournament are as follows:

  • Being an adult. (18)
  • Partnering with JAPE, unless you are, you can fill out the application form by clicking here. Registration is free and you send a mail asignándote a number.
  • Present at the time of registration ID to verify your registration with the association.

Thanks are due to the association JAPE (Players Amateur Poker Euskadi) over an initiative to bring poker to young people at a price affordable to most. We expect from Poker Network f power

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Bloc Party & Franz Ferdinand Las Vegas Photos

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This holiday season local radio station Area 107.9 hosted their annual holiday concert event at the Hard Rock’s Joint. Co-headlining the show was British indie rock band, Bloc Party and rock group Franz Ferdinand.

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