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Poker
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compiled by Roy ‘The Boy’
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10th Jun
2006
Roy Brindley keeps us up-to-date on the Poker
Tour
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Roy on any
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Harrah’s Do
Alright
Harrah’s Entertainment have announced Milwaukee’s
Best Light Beer is to become the Presenting Sponsor and Official Beer of the
World Series of Poker (WSOP) through 2008.
It’s claimed the deal is
the largest of its kind ever between a gaming entity and a corporate sponsor.
As part of the agreement, Milwaukee’s Best Light will be integrated into
several facets of the WSOP and will promote the WSOP on a year-round
basis.
As yet, there is no word from Harrah’s as to how much of
this “largest deal of its kind” will be added to the World Series
tournament prize-pools.
...As Do ESPN
American broadcaster
ESPN has signed a deal to cover the World Series of Poker – now called
“The WSOP presented by Milwaukee’s Best Light” – until
2010.
The sports channel has also announced that, for the first time in
history, ESPN will offer a live pay-per-view telecast of final-table play at
the $10,000 No-Limit Texas Hold’Em World Championship.
Poker
enthusiasts will be able to see all the action from the final table of the Main
Event as it unfolds with ‘The World Series of Poker Live!’
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The pay-per-view program, available on home television screens or live
video screen at ESPN.com, is scheduled to start at 1pm local time on Thursday,
August 10, and continue until the new world champion is crowned.
The
pay-per-view transmission, with a retail price of $24.95, will be offered in
addition to ESPN’s regularly television presentation of the World Series
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 A Grand Film
X-Men 3 writer Zak Penn has penned a
forthcoming comedy poker movie to be called “Grand”.
The
“Grand’s” cast includes Woody Harrelson, Ray Liotta, Ray Romano,
Jason Alexander, Cheryl Hines and German helmer Werner Herzog, with the Golden
Nugget Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas being the venue for action
shots.
“A lot of actors were intrigued by the script, because they
are naturally competitive,” says Penn. “And the fact that poker has
become this crazy phenomenon isn’t unhelpful to us. The entire cast has
learned No Limit Hold’em in preparation of
shooting.”
“Grand” is among a handful of poker-based
projects in the pipeline, including Warner Bros. Pictures’ upcoming
“Lucky You” directed by Curtis Hanson and starring Eric Bana, Drew
Barrymore and Robert Duvall.
Reason To
Party
The four founders of PartyGaming, plus one of the group’s
chief technicians, cashed in some more of their chips last week, coming away
from the table with just under £232m.
Traders had been expecting
PartyGaming’s director Anurag Dikshit and the marketing boss Vikrant
Bhargava to sell shares after they quit the board of the business last month.
But it emerged that their desire to sell-out was shared by the company’s
original founders, Ruth Parasol and her husband Russ DeLeon.
The four
major shareholders sold 5% of the business and were joined in the sell-off by
Nitin Jain, a technician who joined the company during the dotcom boom shortly
after Mr Dikshit.
In total, the five dumped 200m shares at 116p each -
the same price at which the stock was floated a year ago.
All four
founders have already been turned into multimillionaires by the flotation of
the business, set up in 1997.
Ms Parasol, a former porn baroness, and
Mr DeLeon each sold £218m worth of shares when the company was floated.
Mr Dikshit sold £420m worth of stock at the same time for
example.
However, the four founders still have 65.7% of the business
and have agreed not to sell any more shares until after September 5, when
PartyGaming announces its half-year results.
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