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Winning with RakeBack While keeping your Bankroll Even

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Rakeback offers provide online poker players the opportunity to receive a percentage of the rake they contribute to each pot back at the end of every month. These rakeback offers vary by online poker room, but they all have one thing in common. You don’t have win in order to make money while playing your online poker rake back account.

Yes, this is the truth. Online poker players are playing every day with the objective of winning money at online poker tournaments and ring games without understanding the fact that by just playing you are generating money for yourself via the rakeback offer you have signed up for.

Rakeback is as simple as this: Your Rake Back = Monthly Gross Revenue X Rakeback %

Now we need a couple definitions.

1. What is rake and how is rake calculated:

The rake is the fee that every online poker player pays to the “house” or in this case the online poker room for playing in a hand at their online poker room. This fee is different from poker room to poker room. The rake is calculated in one of two ways, the dealt method and the contributed method. The dealt method is calculated by totaling up all of the rake in a hand and then dividing that amount between all players who were dealt cards in the hand. The contributed method is calculated based on the total amount each player pays into the pot. The dealt method gives an edge to those players who play fixed limit games. While the contributed method can add up to greater rake for No Limit poker players and thus earning greater rakeback.

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2. What is Monthly Gross Revenue (MGR)

Monthly Gross Revenue is the total amount of rake you generate while playing at the online poker room. This amount includes all rake contributed while playing ring games as well as tournament entry fees. Some online poker rooms do not pay rakeback on tournament entry fees so you should check with the poker room before signing up. So now that we have these rakeback definitions down, we can calculate how much theoretical rakeback you can earn in a month. A player who generates $1000 in MGR over the month and is signed up to a 40% rakeback deal now will receive $400 in rakeback at the end of the month.

$1000 X 40% = $400 to your pocket.

Now this $400 is going to be paid to you wether or not you win $5,000 or lose $100 playing online poker. The rakeback is always going to be there and is only dependant upon how much you play, not how much you win. Now let’s take a look at yet an other example of how rakeback can make you a profitable online poker player.

Like all poker players you are going to go through hard times and find it difficult to even just break even. In our above example, you don’t even have to break even at the table in order to still earn a profit. As long as you generate the $1,000 in monthly gross revenue, you now have a $400 cushion to work with. So even if you happen to end the month down $200, you are still going to end the month up $200 after you receive your rakeback payment.

As you can now see, if you didn’t before, the importance of playing online poker with a rakeback deal in place for yourself. You can find many rakeback offers at Treasure Hunter Poker by visiting any of our rakeback pages.

Don’t throw your money into the muck with your cards any more. Start making money while your are making money at the online poker table today.

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Poker News November 15th, 2008

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Winner of 623.000 Euro at Grand Final of Master Classics of Poker

Jan Sorensen Wins Grand Final at Master Classics of Poker

Jan Sorensen won the grand final of the main event at the Master Classics of Poker in Holland Casino Amsterdam. He won 623.000 euro. In the exciting final Gustav Ekerot came in second. The Master Classics of Poker is one of the biggest and best-known international poker tournaments in Europe.

This year poker players from a.o. America, Canada, Russia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain, Slovakia, England, Ireland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium, etc. attended the Master Classics of Poker.
About Master Classics of Poker
The main tournament in the Holland Casino Master Classics of Poker is the Lido Poker Tournament. This tournament takes place from Tuesday 11th to Friday 14th November inclusive and has a buy-in of 6,000 Euros plus 200 Euros entry fee. The Master Classics of Poker comprises seven different tournaments where the types of poker played are Texas Hold’em and Omaha. The buy-in plus entry fee for each tournament varies between 330 and 6,200 Euros. The level of the prize pot for these tournaments is, of course, dependent on the number of participants. Each day the tournaments start at 2 pm except for the Lido Tournament that starts at 3 pm. More information on the MCOP and the full tournament schedule is available at www.masterclassicsofpoker.com.

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‘Poker Wizards’ Reap More than $4,000,000 in Tournament Earnings in 08

‘Poker Wizards’ book contributors: Chris Ferguson, Daniel Negreanu, T.J. Cloutier, Kathy Liebert, Marcel Luske, Dan Harrington and Mike Sexton unable able to defeat the overwhelming odds in 2008 to make the recently televised WSOP final table, but as a group, they have been paid in excess of $4,000,000 for tournament winnings in 2008 even without cracking the Main Event.

In one of the years best new books, ‘Poker Wizards’, the best known names in poker explain how they make large sums of money year after year. An exclusive compilation of strategies, insights and winning tactics from some of the worlds best poker players combined in one book. Well known No-limit Hold’em champions Daniel Negreanu, Chris Ferguson, Dan Harrington, T.J Cloutier, Marcel Luske, Mel Judah, Mike Sexton and Kathy Liebert, reveal the tactics and attitudes that have enabled them to make millions of dollars playing poker. The book also contains a bonus chapter on body language by world renowned body language expert Marc Salem.

Poke Wizards author available for media interviews.

Author Warwick Dunnett
Cardoza Publishing
Distributed by Simon & Schuster and available at:
www.pokerwizards.net

Century Casinos Announces Polish Open 2008 Poker Tournament

Century Casinos, Inc. announced today that its subsidiary Casinos Poland Ltd. will present the grand Polish Open 2008, a four-day Texas Hold’em No Limit tournament, hosted as part of the fifth EPT European Poker Tour Season at its casino in the Hyatt Hotel in Warsaw from November 15 to November 19, 2008.

The tournament will be capped at 400 players who will play for a total prize pool of up to PLN 8,000,000 or approx. $2,700,000. The buy-in for the tournament amounts to PLN 21,000 or approx. $7,000. According to the official website of the EPT a lot of stars are heading to Warsaw for the next stop on the Pokerstars.com European Poker Tour. Among the top players set to compete at the four-day event are Team PokerStars Pros Gavin Griffin, the EPT Grand Final winner in Season 4, EPT Player of the Year Luca Pagano, PCA Champion Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, William Thorson, Season 3 Warsaw finalist Katja Thater, EPT London finalist Marcin Horecki, Dario Minieri, Alex Kravchenko and Isabelle Mercier.

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Poker News November 11th, 2008

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World Series of Poker has youngest champ ever

A 22-year-old Danish poker professional won the World Series of Poker early Tuesday, turning a wheel straight on the last hand to become the youngest champion in the history of the no-limit Texas Hold ‘em main event.

Peter Eastgate hit an ace-to-five straight on the turn and instantly called an all-in bet from Ivan Demidov on the river to win the title and $9,152,416. Demidov held two pair, twos and fours.

The previous youngest champion was 11-time gold bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth, who was 24 when he won the tournament in 1989.

“It feels good to beat Phil’s record,” Eastgate said after taking pictures with stacks of $100 bills and his new gold bracelet. “I was not focused on the record that I could break, I was just focused on the game.”

Eastgate said he got a call from Hellmuth wishing him luck before the more than three-hour session.

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Perth player misses making poker final

The final of the World Series of Poker, with its $9.15-million U.S. first prize, will be televised tonight with Scott Montgomery no more than a spectator.

The 27-year-old professional player from Perth reached what organizers labeled the “November Nine” in Las Vegas, but he bowed out Sunday night and missed last night’s final, which was taped for broadcast tonight (TSN, 10 p.m.).

“I certainly wanted to finish better than fifth,” Montgomery told reporters later.

This year has been referred to as his “breakout year” as a poker player, with more than $1.3 million in tournament earnings heading into the World Series, and he more than doubled that with his $3.1-million prize for placing fifth.

Montgomery started playing poker about four years ago, while teaching English in Japan, using his down time to play and study the game.

His great 2008 run began in February at the World Poker Tour’s Los Angeles Poker Classic $990,000 No-Limit Hold ‘em championship. He made it to the final table, which included eventual winner Phil Ivey, and won $296,000 for finishing fifth.

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You gotta know when to Texas hold’em at UMSL

Are you good at card games?

If you are (or even if you are not), the University of Missouri-St. Louis holds annual poker games and this year was the “Texas Hold ‘em Tournament!”

The tournament is usually played with a 52-card deck, and needs at least two players with no more than 11 players.

The Texas Hold ‘em Tournament was held on South Campus in the Provincial Hall from 7 -11 p.m. on Thursday night and officially started at 7:15 p.m.

The event drew in 46 players.

Charlotte Caeys, graduate student, business administration, came here from France and said she learned to play poker here, and has loved it from the first time she played. “I found out [how to play poker] on the Internet,” Caeys said.

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Majestic MLB replica jerseys and MLB fitted caps are arguably two of the most popular MLB merchandise. Almost every has at least one replica jersey in his popular sports memorabilia collection. People buy replica uniforms for two main reasons. Some purchase jerseys for investment reasons but quite a number buy them to wear to the game or to play some ball with the guys. It matters not if they are Majestic MLB replica jerseys or jerseys from other leagues, they need to be handled with care so that they can remain in good condition for many years to come.

For reasons still unknown to mankind, men do not do two things. The first is asking for directions. The second is looking for care labels before throwing their jerseys into the machine. This is a fundamental mistake.

The first thing you must do is look for care labels before washing your replica jerseys. The care labels are normally found on the inside of the jersey’s neck seam or collar. Others can be found at the apparels side seams. However, the are some care labels which are printed on hand tags that are not stitched to the jerseys so keep in mind to check the contents of the package your jersey came in before you discard it.

Obviously merchandise like NFL replica jerseys are more easily damaged than say mini NFL helmets or novelty lanyards. So additional care should be considered when cleaning them. As pointed out before, always look for care labels. It would include instructions on wash methods, water temperature, detergent use, drying methods and other instructions. The next thing to do is follow the instructions to the letter.

But what if your favorite Majestic MLB replica jerseys did not come with care instructions? Fret not. Here are some simple tips you can try.

Wash jerseys as soon as you reach home. Leaving them till the next morning will cause wet and soiled jerseys to stink and develop stains.

Before washing them, locate stains and pretreat them. If you are out of stain removers then try using some baking soda.

Turn jerseys inside out and seek out any loose threads. Cut or burn the threads to prevent them unraveling even further in the wash.

Then, soak for a while in cold water to to avoid stains from setting.

Remember not to wash white jerseys with colored apparels and vice versa just in case the colors run.

It is highly recommended that you hand wash your apparels so they last longer.

After the washing process is done with, properly hang or line dry. Most replica jerseys are no longer made of cotton so they should not wrinkle or go out of shape and they are designed to dry quickly.

Dry them inside out so the colors last longer.

One final suggestion, if you decide to iron your jerseys, try to avoid ironing the logos and numbers.

New York City Sports News November 12th, 2008

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Giants, Jets, and Even Knicks Make for Best NYC Sports Day Since the Super Bowl

The last time New York City sports fans enjoyed as much good fortune as they did yesterday was February 3, 2008, when a man named David Tyree — who, with his season-ending injury, it seems clear you’ll need not think about again — caught the most ridiculous of all touchdown passes en route to an amazing Giants Super Bowl victory over the undefeated Patriots. That was a pretty great day. Yesterday came close.

Here’s how it went down. First, the Jets played their most complete game of the season — and probably their most complete in several years — with a thorough 47-3 shellacking of the St. Louis Rams. The game wasn’t even as close as the final score indicated; the Jets ran out to a 40-0 halftime lead in what became the biggest victory margin in franchise history. As has been the case lately, Brett Favre wasn’t the reason for the win; even if he’d tossed up five of his signature oh-what-the-hell-let’s-just-try-this heaves, the Rams still wouldn’t have had a shot. This game sets up a rollicking Thursday-night first-place matchup with the hated Patriots.

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Queens to host wheelchair hoops tourney

Top wheelchair basketball teams from around the country and even the world will come to the Bronx to compete in the Mayor’s Cup Wheelchair Basketball Tournament.

The tournament, which is being presented by Forest City Ratner, will take place at Manhattan College and Horace Mann High School in the Bronx with festivities and games taking place on Friday, October 10 through the championship games on Sunday, October 12. Free to the public, the event is a presentation of the National Wheelchair Basketball Association.

“It is one of the best wheelchair basketball tournaments on the East Coast,” said Middle Village resident John Hamre, 40, who has been coaching the New York Nets team for the past 10 years.

This year, the Mayor’s Cup Tournament has 10 Division III teams participating, including Hamre’s New York Nets. Hamre said that most of his players reside in the New York City area with many of them living in Queens, the Bronx and Long Island.

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New York mayor honors returning Olympians

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and New York City Sports Commissioner Kenneth J. Podziba on Monday welcomed home the city’s returning Olympians and presented each of them with a crystal apple at a ceremony in City Hall Park.

The U.S. Olympic team included 10 athletes from New York City, nine of whom attended the ceremony, including silver medal-winning fencers Erinn Smart (women’s foil team) and Wang Chen (table tennis), according to a report available on www.nyc.gov.

The mayor also presented crystal apples to fencing team captain and coaches and boxing coaches.

“No city in the world epitomizes the spirit and diversity of the Olympic Games like New York does, and the athletes from the five boroughs (of the city) who competed in Beijing are consummate New Yorkers,” Mayor Bloomberg was cited as saying.

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My goodness, has time changed. I do remember remember a time before the advent of video and computer games. It was a simpler time when school kids saw rays of sunshine as a good omen. Mother Nature’s signal to get off the couch and play while affording their bodies with some old fashioned vitamin D. Kids at that time would imitate their sports idols by wearing their favorite MLB uniforms and hit a few balls in the back yard, at a nearby park or even in the streets in front of their homes. Of course there weren’t as many cars at that time and automobiles reaching 180 miles per hour had probably not been invented yet.

A worrying number of kids nowadays spend way too much time in front of the HDTV or the PC. To such a degree that even bats seem to spend more time in sunlight than they do. This would explain why the number of over weight children keep increasing every year. Computer games are exciting, no doubt but even the most physically demanding of computer games are not able to match the dynamism of human interaction during a simple game of soccer.

It is literally impossible to explain the the feelings a player experiences the first time he hits a home run or scores a touchdown. I recall going to an outdoor charity hockey game a long time back when I was just a small child donning one of my NHL hockey jerseys. After the game, members of the crowd were invited to take penalties after making a small donation first. I could hardly believe it myself but I was lucky enough to score and I felt like I had just won the Stanley Cup. I can still remember that moment clearly like it was just yesterday.

One of the main reasons I love about taking part in actual games is because you can literally use your MLB fitted caps to conjure signals to your fellow teammates during a game of baseball. You cannot pull that off sitting on a chair with one hand on a mouse. At least that is as far as I know of. To me video games can sometimes cause more frustration that fun because not a single person likes getting beaten by a computer. Therein is the secret to its addictiveness.

Participating sports teaches a kid about the benefits of. It also teaches kids that sometimes we might lose a game or two but it does not mean that its the end of the world. Group games also introduces kids to team strategy and the plus points of positive thinking. These are all habits that can be practiced in real everyday life. After all, sometimes it does not matter whether you win or lose, or how much NBA merchandise or MLB uniforms you posses in your popular sports memorabilia collection, or even how much NBA trivia you know, but rather its how you play the game.

Poker News November 10th, 2008

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November 10, 2008

It’s down to Russia’s Demidov vs. Denmark’s Eastgate for $9.15M WSOP title

Ivan Demidov and Peter Eastgate emerged from a marathon session early Monday morning at the World Series of Poker and will meet later in the night to settle the $9.15 million title.

Eastgate, a 22-year-old poker professional from Odense, Denmark, eliminated the last American in the field with a set of threes. Dennis Phillips, who tried to bluff Eastgate with a 10 high, shrugged his shoulders and nodded his head when Eastgate made the call that eliminated him.

“I just want to be alive on the river,” Phillips said before an ace came on the turn, officially eliminating the 53-year-old trucking account manager who started the final table with the chip lead.

Phillips, of Cottage Hills, Ill., won $4,517,773 for third place.

Eastgate held 79.5 million chips, nearly 22 million chips more than Demidov, a 27-year-old semiprofessional poker player from Moscow.

“My hands held up all the time — that’s the key factor,” Eastgate said.

Those big hands, including two full houses and a set, helped Eastgate end the tournament for four players.

Ylon Schwartz finished fourth and won $3,774,974 after failing on a bluff, giving Eastgate a lead over Demidov. Scott Montgomery watched Eastgate hit a full house on the river, after Montgomery picked up three aces on the turn.

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One Day Fundraiser for Poker Players Alliance

Poker author Mitchell Cogert has decided to donate the proceeds from one day of sales of his poker book, “Tournament Poker: 101 Winning Moves”. The book is for sale online at Amazon.com, and everyone who buys a copy on November 11 will be sure the proceeds from the purchase will go towards the fight to keep online poker legal via support of the grassroots organization the Poker Players Alliance. The date was picked to run along side the airing of the World Series of Poker main event final table on ESPN, an event months in the making.

Amsterdam Poker Capital of the World

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, November 8 — Yesterday, November 7th, the 17th edition of the Master Classics of Poker started in Amsterdam. The Master Classics of Poker is one of the biggest and best-known international poker tournaments in Europe. Last year the total prize pot added up to more than 3.7 million Euros. This year the total prize pot will add up to almost 5 million euro. Between Friday 7th and Saturday 15th November the best poker players from all over the world will be pitted against each other. Amsterdam will be the poker capital of the world this week.

ANP news video with feeds live from Amsterdam:

http://pubstr.datiq.net/perssupport/HCPokerINT.wmv

Last year poker players from a.o. America, Canada, Russia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain, Slovakia, England, Ireland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, New Zealand, Pakistan, Netherlands, Belgium, etc. attended the Master Classics of Poker.

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Investing in affordable sports memorabilia such as mini NFL helmets is a rewarding hobby. But just as every other item in a popular sports memorabilia collection they usually tend to collect dust and look jaded after a while. Here are a few pointers to keep them looking new.

For Display Purposes Only
They say prevention is better than cure. Truer words have never been spoken in this case. Keeping your collection of mini NFL helmets away from sweaty hands can save you a lot of effort from cleaning countless fingerprints off of them later. It is not just the fingerprints you have to keep in mind but also the other chemicals that come a long with it.

Human hands come into contact with hundreds, if not thousands of different chemicals every day. Many of these elements might not seem dangerous in low quantities but may be quite corrosive over the years. These chemicals can spoil the finishing as well as the paint job, devaluing your NFL merchandise.

It would be great if the sports collectibles could be kept away from sun light and florescent lighting too. Exposure to ultra violet rays might lead to the colors looking faded. So always keep your important popular sports memorabilia collection in an acrylic or glass display which has a UV limiting tint. The will help prevent your sports merchandise from coming into contact with chemically polluted hands and also prevent the paint job from premature fading.

Cleaning And Touch Ups
If your selection of affordable sports memorabilia, be it wooden pencil holders or awesome belt buckles, is exposed to potentially damaging substances then its is most likely that you should consider cleaning it once a while. Before beginning the cleaning process, remember to check if the item has a tag with cleaning instructions. Sports items such as NFL replica jerseys usually come with washing instructions. If it does not then just follow these simple procedures.

First of all inspect the NFL mini helmet for any traces of dirt or scratches. Remove dirt with a soft brush or lint-free cloth. Do not brush or wipe too hard or you will risk damaging the product. If there is a scratch but the damage is not too serious, you could use light polish to polish off the scratch. If the damage is too serious then you may have to consider sending the merchandise in for a professional detailing job.

If there are no visible scratches, proceed to clean the item with a mild detergent. Refrain from using strong solvents or powerful cleaning chemicals. Using such products could be detrimental to the paint job. Be extra careful around the logo areas as some logos are stuck on and not sprayed on. Next, rinse the item and towel dry. Lastly, use a buffer cloth to finish the job. You can use the same technique to maintain regular NFL football helmets and other similar sports head gear as well.

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Poker Links continues to celebrate its new look and features by giving money away to its members through two exclusive freerolls and six new Rake Races for October.

“We value each and every one of our members, and what better way to say “thank you for choosing us as your affiliate site” than to give them more chances to win money? RakeBreak members get the most for their money: on top of the best rakeback deals in the industry, our members can also join in the Rake Races to make some extra cash and have a shot at our exclusive freeroll tournaments.”

This month’s exclusive $20,000 freeroll will take place on Sunday October 12 at Full Tilt Poker. All RakeBreak members who have accumulated 500 FTPs are allowed to join the freeroll 100% free of charge - all they have to do is look up the tournament at Full Tilt’s lobby and click on “Register.”

Players who miss this freeroll can still have a shot at free money on November 15, when RakeBreak.com will be hosting a $5,000 freeroll at Cake Poker.

RakeBreak has a busy Rake Race schedule for October, with six sites awarding over $80,000 to the top raking players. Here is an overview of RakeBreak.com’s October rake races:

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- Absolute Poker will be giving out $20,000 to the top 50 rakers in October.
- Betfair Poker will award $500 to its top raking player, as well as cash prizes for the remaining top 10.
- Cake Poker is also rewarding 50 players with a share of $15,000 - the highest raker will take home $1800.
- The 10 highest rakers at Fortune Poker will earn a share of €2,000 this month.
- Full Tilt is going all out with $20,000 in cash for the 50 leaders of this month’s Rake Race.
- Finally, UltimateBet is also giving $2,000 to October’s highest raker, and splitting $18,000 among the remaining top 50.

“If you are not part of a rakeback program yet, you should really pay us a visit. Besides our excellent rakeback percentages, this month we are giving over $105,000 in prizes at absolutely no cost to our members - not many other affiliates can say that.”

Poker News November 7th 2008

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Daniel Negreanu: Don’t sweat the small stuff at the poker table

I like to peruse the Full Contact Poker online forums to read and comment on posts about interesting poker hands and whether they were played properly. I find that many of the contributors consistently suffer from the same problem: They are far too preoccupied with statistically insignificant aspects of a poker hand.

My point is that the minor details of many poker hands are often unimportant and simply not worthy of in-depth analysis. Worrying about these insignificant details won’t have much effect on your bankroll at the end of the year.

The best way to improve your poker game is to focus on the important aspects of the game, like eliminating big mistakes. Instead, I see too many players fretting about whether they are a 56.2 percent favorite or a 51.8 percent favorite.

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North Versailles Diner Raided For Video Poker

Video poker machines were removed from a North Versailles restaurant Thursday night.

Police officers confiscated the machines from the Great Valley diner in the Great Valley Shopping Center on Lincoln Highway.State and Allegheny County police handled the raid.No arrests were made.

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Poker pros to duke it out

These are serious poker professionals duking it out at one of the biggest events of the year.

It’s going to be intense. The final nine players of the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event Final Table will meet across the poker table Sunday at the Rio.

The nine will battle for a share of $32.6 million in prize money, bragging rights and the much coveted WSOP gold bracelet.

The event takes place at 10 a.m. inside the Penn & Teller Theater.

The final two players go head-to-head the following day.

Go to www.harrahs.com for more information.

Tao turns 3-years-old

Amy Smart bopped into Tao over at The Venetian this weekend with 10 friends. The group settled next to the restaurant’s 20-foot Buddha and dined on TAO Asian Bistro signature dishes Hong Kong XO Shrimp, Imperial Vegetable Egg Rolls and assorted sushi.

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