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Time magazine profiles the candidates' favorite games.
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Here are the promotions for the month at Mardi Gras:
Monday July 7, 14, 21, & 28: Sun Fun Scratch Card – Win up to $1,000 Cash
Tuesday July 1, 8, 15, & 22: Summer Cash on Fat Tuesday – Win your share of $25,000 cash or Bonus Play
Wednesday July 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30: Surf n’ Jester Jamboree – Win up to $250 Bonus Play every half hour 1pm-9pm
Thursday July 3, 10, 17, 24, & 31: Summer Lovin - Win your share of $4,500 cash or Bonus Play. Spin The Sizzling Wheel – Win up to $2,000 cash 2 p.m.-6 p.m. every hour
Friday July 4: Stars & Stripes Interactive Game: Match 4 stripes or 4 stars and win up to $4,000 cash or $400 Bonus Play. Uncle Sam’s Jamboree: Win $100 Bonus Play
Sunday July 6, 13, 20 & 27: Summer Spinning – Win $2,000 cash every hour 1 p.m.-8 p.m.
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The Florida Lottery announced Thursday that it will join the Multi-State Lottery Association and add POWERBALL.
It starts January 2009 and makes Florida the 30th state to join the multi-state lottery game (also there's the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands).
The authority to join a multi-state game is covered in the Florida Public Education Lottery Act, according to a news release.
Powerball drawings are held twice weekly and broadcast to nationwide live at 10:59 p.m., Eastern Time, currently from West Des Moines, Iowa.
Will you play? Will it affect your gambling dollars?
Read the rest of the press release below:
Continue reading "Powerball comes to Florida Jan. 1" »
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News from the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino:
21 Grand for 21 Days Giveaway: The casino is giving away $21,000 every day for 21 days from July 7 – July 30 (excluding Saturdays), the casino says. It will be three $700 cash giveaways every hour from noon – 9 p.m. But it's for slot players, and you have to join their Players Club (which is free).
Also:
$60,000 Independence Day Weekend Giveaway: Player’s Club members can win up to $20,000 each day July 4 –July 6 from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Cash prize of $1,776 awarded hourly to one winner. Grand prize drawing at 7 p.m. for $4, 016.
$15,000 Concert Night Giveaways: $3,000 after five select concerts in Hard Rock Live. On Tuesdays, July 1 & 15 and Thursdays, July 3, 10 and 24 at 11 p.m. Three, $1,000 cash and memorabilia giveaways. Visitors need to swipe their Players' Club card on concert days from 5 p.m. – 10:45 p.m. to enter.
Free Slot Machine Play: On Tuesdays, July 8, 15, 22 and 29 and Wednesdays, July 9, 16, 23 and 30 from 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. Players Club members can redeem points for free slot machine play.
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Early Saturday morning, at approximately 12:15 a.m. in Palm Beach Kennel Club’s Poker Room, Greenacre resident Kyle Gray became the track’s second-largest Poker Room winner as his "losing" poker hand paid off a hefty $86,625, the kennel club says.
A "Bad Beat" jackpot happens when a player with a seemingly unbeatable hand is beaten by an even better hand. The bad beat loser gets 50 percent of the jackpot, the hand winner gets 25 percent and the rest of the players split the remaining 25 percent.
Saturday morning, in a game of $1-$2 No Limit, Gray had Aces full of Queens (A,A,A,Q,Q). But Frank Marchese had a Royal Flush in diamonds (A,K,Q,J,10).
Marchese received $43,312 while the other players at the table each took home $6,187.
The recently hit "Bad Beat" jackpot began accumulating on April 22 of this year. The current backup jackpot, which is now the main jackpot, at this moment stands at $83,513, the club said.
The state record payoff for a bad beat occurred in February as Loxahatchee resident Charles Infantolino collected $116,714 for his four Queens while his opponent showed a straight flush. A-2-3-4-5 of spades.
The Isle's bad beat also hit at over $100,000 during a cash game during the Florida State Poker Championships. Again, it involved Aces and Queens; Aces full of Queens lost to Quad queens.
So if I have queens, I'm playing them to the river.
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Jacobo Fernandez of Hollywood has slipped from first to third in the World Series of Poker Player of the Year standings.
More correctly, he got passed. By Erick Lindgren (245 points), and Barry Greenstein (235 points). Two pretty good names who are also having good tournaments.
So, to win POY, Jacobo needs to cash again. He's already cashed seven times, for $658,100.
Meanwhile, event 49, yet another $1,5000 No-Limit Hold 'em, saw six locals cash:
Steven Schaet, Davie, 68th, $7,420;
Allan Bieler, Plantation, 117th, $4,081;
Paul Balzano, Sunrise, 159th, $3,524;
Greg Silverstein, Davie, 202nd, $2,968;
Bruce Simberg, Boca Raton, 242nd, $2,782;
William Soffin, Delray Beach, 245th, $2,782.
Also, if you're going to play in the main event, you better get on your plane. And good luck.
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Event 44, a $1,000 No-Limit Hold 'em with Rebuys: Stuart Paterson, again, of Boca Raton, cashes in 55th, taking home $9,720.
Event 46: $5,000 Six-handed No-Limit Hold 'em
Jason Mercier of Davie, 51st, $10,972; Michael Glasser, Boca Raton, $9,080
Event 47: $1,500 7-Card Stud Hi-Low, 8 or better
No South Florida cashes.
Event 48: $2,000 No-Limit Hold 'em, drawing a record 2,317 players
Richard Blanchar, Fort Lauderdale, 86th, $6,747; Jacobo Fernandez, again -- his ninth cash of the tournament -- Hollywood, $5,060; Raymond Milliard, Davie, 139th, $4,216.
Event 49: $1,500 No-Limit Hold 'em
Steven Schaet, Davie, 68th, $7,420; Allen Bieler, Plantation, 117th, $4,081; Paul Balzano, Sunrise, 159th, $3,524; Greg Silverstein, Davie, 202nd, $2968; Bruce Simberg, Boca Raton, $2,782; William Soffin, Delray Beach, 245th, $2,782.
Closing in on the big one, folks. Just a few more days...
If you're in it, email me, and when you're out there, let me know how you do.
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Now you can mix the gambling of poker with that of golf, on a golf course.
The World Series of Golf involves poker-type bets -- raise, check or fold -- with how you're playing a particular hole.
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Looks like Jacobo Fernandez of Hollywood added to his player of the year points lead at the World Series of Poker.
He came in 30th, in Event 43, a $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Tournament (Split 8). He won $4,619.
Mark Gallo of Lake Worth was 13th, with $9,928 to show for it; Damon Songer of Coral Springs was 49th, earning $3,341.
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If you want to take your shot at slots, there are free tournaments beginning next month at The Isle and at Gulfstream, detailed in my story here.
One reader asked, and I thought I made it clear, but I'll go again: The tournament is free. You sign up for their Players' Club (free), and spin their slots (free). You don't have to put any money in.
Now, after the tournament, if you stick around, and play a few slots, I'm sure the casinos won't mind...
Anyone played in a slot tournament before? Any thoughts? Advice?
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