Sunday, September 13, 2009
Whether you love or hate Phil Hellmuth, it’s hard to argue with his latest cause: the Holdem for Heroes charity. For once he’s putting his big mouth to good use by hosting the charity’s annual celebrity tournament which is scheduled to take place in Arizona on November 19-21 at the Fort McDowell Casino.
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Also tagged arizona, basement, fort, gambling, Gambling News, hellmuth, latest, legal, money-making, poker for charity, serving-someone, the-numerous, vehicles-parked
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One of the all-time greats in the world of mixed martial arts is trading the Octagon for an oval table, at least for one weekend. Ultimate Fighting Championship Hall of Famer Randy “The Natural” Couture will host a charity poker tournament at the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas on 22 August. Proceeds from the tournament will benefit the Xtreme Couture GI Foundation
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Also tagged charity-poker, charity-tournament, fighting, golden-nugget, mixed-martial, oval-table, Poker, sports legends challenge, texas hold'em, the-all-time, ufc, world, xtreme-couture
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Billionaire Andy Beal may have sworn off poker after taking a multi-million dollar beating from The Corporation in 2006, but his recent $100 million bid for three bankrupt Trump Entertainment casinos suggests that the eccentric banker still enjoys big gambles. This is the second time that Beal has backed a big Donald Trump investment scheme; Trump Entertainment already owes his bank $500 million.
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Also tagged 100-million, already-owes, atlantic-city, business, dollar-beating, donald-trump, eccentric, Gambling News, three-bankrupt, trump, trump-entertainment
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Long before we affectionately knew him as the moron who dumped Gisele Bundchen, Leonardo DiCaprio was a snot-nosed vagabond on the hit show Growing Pains. Following his career, you’ll see that Leo quickly became a mega-star, sharing the screen with De Niro, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Bill Paxton. Okay, so maybe Paxton isn’t noteworthy, but I like Club Dread’s Coconut Pete and don’t really care what you think about it! read more
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Also tagged career, coconut-pete, gambling, gambling movies, growing, hollywood, leonardo di caprio, paxton-okay, quickly-became, screen, the-moron
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Australian professional poker player Jeffrey Lisandro won his third career World Series of Poker championship bracelet by taking down the US$10,000 buy-in Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo World Championship and the top prize of US$431,656. Lisandro also joins Brock Parker and Phil Ivey as two-time bracelet winners in this year’s series of tournaments. Earlier this month, Lisandro also won the US$1,500 buy-in Seven-Card Stud event, garnering a prize of US $124,959
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Also tagged also-joins, also-won, entertainment, ivey-as-two, jeffrey, jeffrey-lisandro, lisandro, month, omaha hi-lo, seven card stud, taking-down, third-career, world-series, year
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