Poker News May 2nd, 2008
UltimateBet to Give Away Aruba Poker Classic Seat at Kentucky Derby
UltimateBet.com has sweetened the pot for online poker players looking to make a difference on planet earth. The online poker site today donated a 2008 Aruba Poker Classic prize package to the Kentucky Derby Poker Championship, a charity Texas Hold’em tournament created to raise the awareness of climate change and its impact on all communities, particularly those that are poor and underdeveloped.
The Kentucky Derby Poker Championship takes place at Caesars Indiana on Saturday, May 3rd at 8:30pm. Poker players can buy in to the tournament for $2,500.
The charities that will benefit from the tournament’s proceeds include the international Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre, the Health and Climate Foundation, and the Robby Albarado Foundation.
The second place finisher in the charity poker tournament will secure the $8,500 Aruba Poker Classic prize package featuring a Main Event seat and money for travel and accommodations. The 2008 Aruba Poker Classic takes place from September 27th through October 4th. With 750 players expected to descend on the island for the 2008 Aruba Poker Classic, UltimateBet.com is anticipating an estimated prize pool of over $4 million. The online poker site has announced a guaranteed first place prize of $1 million.
The Aruba prize package won’t be UltimateBet’s only presence in the tournament. Phil Hellmuth, one of the online poker site’s top pros, is slated to host the charity event.
About UltimateBet
Designed with the assistance of the best poker players in the world — Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke - UltimateBet provides the best poker games available on the net. Players can download the free poker software, play in free ring games and tournaments and get tips from these pros to learn the sport or to enhance their playing strategy. UltimateBet currently has over 2 million registered players.
Full Tilt Poker Struggles
Full Tilt Poker has struggled to maintain the number two position among online poker rooms in terms of real cash players. PokerStars, the number one online poker room, has had well over double the amount of players.
Stoxpoker Coaches Battle World’s Best Poker Artificial Intelligence Program
Stoxpoker.com (http://www.stoxpoker.com), an international leader in online poker training, will be hosting the second Man vs Machine Poker Challenge at the Gaming Life Expo in the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on July 4th through July 6th. The matchup will pit the world’s best artificial intelligence (AI) poker program against a host of Stoxpoker coaches, who are some of the biggest winners in poker today.
PartyGaming Sees Revenues Rise But Trouble Still Looms on Horizon
A 21 percent increase in revenues was announced at PartyGaming Thursday as the beleaguered online poker firm struggled to assure investors the future still looked rosy for a company that was once the biggest IPO of 2004 and the largest online poker room by a mile prior to passage of US legislation banning the activity.
Borgata, Bellagio, Full Tilt
Well, I am again on an airplane headed this time to Atlantic City for the Borgata deep stack event this weekend. What I enjoy about the Borgata is quite frankly, everything. The tournament and cash game areas are well designed, clean and the staff is excellent, particuraly the Tournament Director Tab Duchateau.
PokerStars LAPT event begins Saturday
Poker can take players all over the world for major events. Las Vegas is, of course, a hotspot, and other locations all over the United States, Europe and even Asia draw in big-money pots for players. Now the poker world is set to take on South America as well with the PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour.
The LAPT kicks off on Saturday with its inaugural event in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. The $2,500 buy-in tournament is expected to sell out its 300-seat limit, and some of those seats will be filled with familiar faces.
Lakes Entertainment to Host Conference Call and Webcast on First Quarter 2008 Results
Lakes Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: LACO) announced it will host a conference call and webcast to discuss the Company’s first quarter 2008 financial results on Thursday, May 8, 2008, at 2:00 p.m. CDT (3:00 p.m. EDT). The Company will issue financial results prior to the call.
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer Lyle Berman, and President and Chief Financial Officer Tim Cope will recap the first quarter 2008 results and provide a business update.
WHEN:
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Conference Call: 2:00 p.m. CDT (3:00 p.m. EDT)
Dial-in Number: (866) 510-0676
Passcode: 77866909
WEBCAST: To listen to a live webcast of the conference call, go to Lakes’ web site, www.lakesentertainment.com, and click on “Conference Call.”
The webcast replay will be available from 5:00 p.m. CDT, Thursday, May 8, until 11:59 p.m. CDT, Friday, June 6, on the Lakes Entertainment website at www.lakesentertainment.com. Listening to the webcast requires speakers and Windows Media Player. If you do not have Media Player, download the free software at www.windowsmedia.com.
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