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New 'What's That Sound?' Contest Invites People to Listen and Guess for a Chance to Win
Online Contest Asks Participants to Identify What Created Certain Sounds, For a Chance to Win a Prize Worth More Than $300 - 2007-12-24 00:01:00

How to Lose Weight During the Holidays: Scientific Findings from Leading Weight Loss Programs for Kids
Anyone can use these scientifically based strategies to lose weight during the holiday period, a time when many people typically gain weight. - 2007-12-24 00:01:00

Sloterix Provides Everything for Slots Players in One Site
A unique site dedicated to online slots has been launched with a great choice of games to play and all kinds of useful information about playing slots. - 2007-12-24 00:01:00

Dermitàge Brightens Skin Just in Time for the New Year
Clinical study shows ingredients in the Dermitàge Anti-Aging System brighten and clarify skin by 45 percent. - 2007-12-24 00:01:00

Troops Continue to Hone Their Hunting Skills While Stationed in Iraq
Troops in Iraq keep their archery skills sharp preparing for their return to the States. Archery range set to be completed in late December with first tournament to follow. - 2007-12-24 00:01:00

Timeshare User's Group (TUG) Is a Hit With Webinar Audience
Holiday's webinars are part of its ongoing efforts to offer timely, unbiased educational information to vacation owners. As the popularity of timeshare continues to increase, so does the need to keep consumers informed about its many benefits, and how to navigate the sometimes confusing world of vacation ownership. - 2007-12-24 00:01:00

RaceForASeat.com Announces The Cake Poker Rake Race
RaceForASeat.com, in affiliation with Cake Poker, has announced the Cake Poker Rake Race - a 9-month event awarding 9 lucky winners a chance to compete a $10,000 prize package to the major poker tournament of their choice. - 2007-12-24 00:01:00

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Historically, poker has required several physical elements to play: chips (or money), a table, some chairs, and a deck of cards (which is truly one of the earliest versions of an analog random-number generator). Then Internet poker came along and introduced the world to the virtual table. With online poker, only a personal computer, an Internet connection, and membership to a participating financial institution is needed.

It was only a matter of time before that technology found its way into the traditional brick-and-mortar poker rooms, and that happened in the form of automated poker tables.

Automated poker tables like the ones manufactured by Lightning Gaming and PokerTek, two companies located in the United States, are slowly finding their way — through intense marketing and sales — into poker markets everywhere.

Brian Haveson, poker player and businessman, is one of the key players in the automated poker industry. As the CEO and founder of Lightning Gaming, the company behind Lightning Poker, Haveson is at the forefront of this new industry.

Earlier this year, Lightning Gaming entered an agreement with the gaming company Shuffle Master to distribute its product worldwide. The partnership with Shuffle Master has been invaluable to Lightning Gaming. As Haveson puts it, it made the Pennsylvania company international overnight. Haveson pointed out that Shuffle Master has offices all around the world, with a good portion of its 500-plus staff working to market and sell its properties, Lightning Gaming included.

PokerTek, who manufactures the PokerPro line of tables, including a heads-up version, has a similar distribution agreement with Aristocrat International, an Australian gaming company that distributes gaming products globally.

Also, last month, Lightning Gaming acquired Poker Automation, which the No. 3 player in the industry.

Lightning Gaming was founded in 2004 by Haveson, …

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King of the Cage and Lake of the Torches Announce Main Events for KOTC: Sub Zero

Lake of the Torches Resort Casino will play host to mixed martial arts global powerhouse King of the Cage on Saturday, January 12th. Tickets are $40, $50 and $75.

King of the Cage - Sub Zero

The 10 No Holds Barred cage fighting event will consist of 3 main events with MMA superstars Mike “Sixgun” Sixel, Matt “Jagger Bomb” Jaggers and Tony “The Gun” Bonnello.
Local Wisconsin native and cage fighting phenomenon Mike “Sixgun” Sixel returns again in the main event to defend his 4 and 1 record and to show off his flawless striking and technical ability in the cage. Sixel carries heavy hands with amazing speed and knock out power. Recently, Lake of the Torches Resort Casino hosted King of the Cage’s last Lac du Flambeau event appropriately named “Brimstone”, where Sixgun choked out Jeremiah Davenport in the first round by way of a guillotine. Mike has been training with his father Dave, and they recently returned from escorting Team USA into Portugal. Young Sixel trains out of the renowned Team Quest Center in Gresham, Oregon. In addition, Sixgun will be launching his new line of clothing with sponsors Lake of the Torches and Booyaa Fight Wear at the event.

Tony “The Gun” Bonello

One of Australia’s most famous cage-fighting Superstars, Tony “The Gun” Bonello bounces back after a majority draw against Ryan Sturdy what was touted to be one the best and bloodiest stand and bang battles in Mixed Martial Arts history. The “Gun” is considered to be one of the fastest fighters on the planet that thrives off trading headshots.
Also entering the cage in the third main event is Indiana wrestling star Matt “Jagger Bomb” Jaggers. Jaggers is nothing short of a devious, mean fighter. A ground and specialist, Jaggers prefers to stand and trade in his fights from state to state. Jaggers is …

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Politics get done, undone, and not done by a process very different than what we imagine. That’s the unambiguous message of “Charlie Wilson’s War,” delivered by a brilliantly couched folly that camouflages the grave nature of its end game, enabling us to laugh at what should have us in shock.

In this dramatization of George Criles’s bestselling account of the same name, a liberal playboy congressman and his sometimes lover, a wealthy Christian anti-communist, join forces with a rogue CIA agent to undermine the Russian invasion of Afghanistan.

The odd and unlikely bedfellows turn their respective appetites for cocaine, sex, and violent confrontations with their fellow workers into a force so potent that it literally changes the balance of power in the world. So complex and covert were their actions, it’s unlikely the complete story will ever be known.

Their success in building a covert budget and procuring arms, the latter requiring the sale of lethal weapons by Israeli arms dealers to their mortal enemies, makes a mockery of “political science”.

At the head of the trio is the savvy, indifferent Texas congressman, Charlie Wilson (Tom Hanks). His love for whisky finds competition only in his appreciation for shapely young women, the likes of which make up his office staff.

Hank’s performance, his best in quite some time and his most mature ever, brings delicate shape and nuance to a deceptively wily character, capable of playing poker with the devil.

Wilson receives few demands from his loyal constituency, with the exception of one–Joanne Herring (Julia Roberts), whose requests vary from the very personal to the extremely political.

The very wealthy Joanne, driven by deep religious conviction and contempt for Marxist philosophies, wields great power both locally and

Virtually unknown to the American public, her contacts and influence, in their own way, exceed that …

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Oscar winner RUSSELL CROWE has won a bid to ban gaming machines from the Australian rugby league club he took over last year (06).
The Gladiator star and his business partner, Peter Holmes a Court, secured victory in a vote at the South Sydney league club in Redfern, Sydney on Thursday (20Dec07).
The pair wanted to remove 60 of the so-called "pokie" machines, which rake in $1.7 million (£850,000)-a-year, and aim to cover any fall in revenue by attracting new members.
In a letter they say, "We are not moralising here, we just believe that low-income areas like Redfern need less poker machines rather than more.
"We believe a club can be successful if it caters for our members and the broad community; is a place where families can gather for conversation and good food; and the distracting din of pokies doesn’t stop the conversation or drown out live music." Crowe teamed up with Holmes a Court March 2006 to buy a 75 per cent stake in the National Rugby League team for $2.2 million (£1.1 million).

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Dec 19th 2007

DOYLE BRUNSON (above, left) is a poker legend. Twice winner of the game’s most prestigious annual tournament, the World Series of Poker (WSOP), held in Las Vegas, the cowboy-hat-clad southerner affectionately known as Texas Dolly also wrote what many consider to be the bible of poker theory, “Super System: A Course in Power Poker”. His reputation among card-shufflers borders on the superhuman. Indeed, after fighting off supposedly terminal cancer in the 1960s, he celebrated his return to the cardrooms with 53 straight wins. Adding to the mystique, both of his World Series titles were won with exactly the same cards: a full house of tens over twos.

Now in his mid-70s, Mr Brunson is still going strong. But not strong enough for Annette Obrestad (above, right), who beat the old master and 361 other entrants in September to win the first ever WSOP event held outside America. Miss Obrestad’s victory, which netted her £1m ($2m), shows how much poker has changed since the days when Texas Dolly, Amarillo Slim Preston and Jack “Treetops” Straus held sway. She is only 19 (making her the youngest ever winner of a World Series bracelet) and she is, of course, a woman. She hails from Norway, not Nevada. And though she had previously won over $800,000 in internet tournaments, the event at London’s Empire Casino was the first time she had encountered serious opposition in the flesh. The poker press refers to her by her online moniker, annette_15.

Miss Obrestad’s route to the grand prize—dumped on the final table in bundles of $50 notes, as is the World Series tradition—required her to see off such modern-day poker luminaries as Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, a hirsute scholar of game theory, Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott, a somewhat cerebral but wily British professional who wears diamond-encrusted knuckledusters, and Phil “Poker Brat” Hellmuth, arguably the …

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When considering sporting figures that are masters of the media
game in this country - a few names come to mind.

Graham Henry is known as astute and tactful; Steve Price is
savvy and certainly charming; and maybe in cricket, Stephen Fleming
(ignoring one blatant misdemeanour) comes across as wise, selective
and pure PR bliss.

John Bracewell however has again proved he is way down the list
of PR-savvy sporting types.

In fact he wouldn’t rank in the top 1000 in this country (off
the top of my head), he would rank somewhere between shamed boxing
promoter Kevin Barry and rookie middle-aged boxer Trevor
Mallard.

Bracewell again showed his lack of tact in Australia on Tueday,
when he questioned the resting of star wicketkeeper/batsman Adam
Gilchrist.

While this rotation policy Australia seems to be employing may
ultimately backfire, Bracewell and the Black Caps should be
counting there lucky stars that they will only have to contend with
Hayden, Ponting, Clark, Hussey and Symonds for Thursdays
decider.

Adam Gilchrist, who was recently voted Australia best one-day
player ever, is destructive and intimidating as an opening batsman,
but despite all Gilchrist’s accolades, the wickets of Ponting and
Hussey will always be more highly valued by the Black Caps.

Apparently the Australia selectors have long planned to rest
Gilchrist for the third game of the Chappell-Hadlee series and for
Bracewell to speculate why comes across as daft at best -
especially considering the Australian press are like Hyenas
scavenging on leftovers whenever he opens his mouth.

Bracewell didn’t help during the recent Tait controversy either
with his ’side-stepping’ answers, that although didn’t condone poor
Tait’s action - certainly didn’t approve it.

The former test spinner did nothing to extinguish the “chucking”
fuse instructing journalists to ask match referee Roshan
Mahanama about the legality of Tait’s action.

So it comes …

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POKERSTARS APPT TROPHY AT HOME IN AUSTRALIA
 
Aussie Grant Levy victorious in inaugural Grand Final in Sydney
 
The Pokerstars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Grand Final at Sydney's Star City Hotel and Casino packed 'em in this weekend as the Grand Final was played out and won by local pro Grant Levy, earning him a million Australian dollars and ensuring that the trophy remained in the country.
 
Levy eventually prevailed in a tough 60 hand heads up against Jeremiah Vinsant from Tennessee, and before that against a big initial entry field that included most of the top international poker stars. Just a few who were noted were former WSOP champs Scotty Nguyen and Joe Hachem, Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer, Lee Nelson, Mark Vos, Mel Judah, Terrence Chan and local favourite Eric Assadourian, the Sydney-sider who won the APPT Macau High Rollers event last month (see previous Online-Casinos.com/InfoPowa report).
 
Final table play was headed by Lei He with 2.62 million in chips, closely pursued by Sol Bergen; both were well ahead of the rest of the field which comprised Grant Levy, Larry Wright, Jeremiah Vinsant, Vijayan Nagarajan, John Matwey, Jai Kemp and Barry Kohlkoff.
 
Wright was first to use the exit door, eliminated by Lei He after a risky move only five hands into the game. He was followed by Nagarajan after a tussle with Vinsant sent him to the rail in eighth place. A three way fight then developed between Kohlkoff, Vinsant and Matwey which resulted in Matwey leaving the table as the seventh elimination with a payday just short of the six figure awards.
 
Kohlhoff did not long survive Matwey, going out at number 6 position after losing out to Sol Bergren in an intense exchange, but taking home a creditable Aus$115 100 in prize money.
 
Next to head for the rail was Jai Kemp fifth position, eliminated by Grant Levy and collecting an Aus$158 830 paycheck  Jai Kemp  - not …

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A teacher from Sydney's western suburbs has won $A1 million ($NZ1.1million) in the city's richest poker tournament.
Grant Levy pocketed the record kitty early today to become Sydney's first ever Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Champion at Star City Casino, after taking out a field of 561 players including four world champions.
Grant, a 28-year-old teacher and father of two from Penrith, has been honing his poker skills online and today he proved these skills in front of a home crowd, including his wife and brother.
As the first Aussie to become a poker millionaire on home soil, Grant said: "To be honest I am still taking it all in, but it's unbelievable to think that I have taken on some of the world's greats and come out on top.
The impressive starting field including four past world champions: Joe Hachem (2005), Scotty Nguyen (1998), Chris Moneymaker (2003) and Greg Raymer (2004).

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