Monthly Archives: July 2015

Steve Wynn’s Journey in Massachusetts

By @TheDailyPayoff

In case you missed it, Boston Globe columnist Shirley Leung wrote a wickedly sharp piece this week describing casino mogul Steve Wynn’s odyssey of trying to get approval to build a $1.7 billion casino in Everett, MA.
As Leung points out, politics is a hard play in Massachusetts.
Read to the end. The kicker is good.

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Mint Hill man drives around for weeks with $4 million lottery ticket

A Mint Hill contractor learned Tuesday that the lottery ticket nestled in the console of his truck for several weeks would make him $2.4 million. James Lampi Jr., bought a $4 million-winning scratch-off ticket in June from a game called the “$200 Million Blowout,” but he didn’t check his winnings at a local lottery retailer until this week, according to a N.C. Education Lottery story published Wednesday.

Legal Exhibit Sealed In Sands Firing Lawsuit

Listen Live Welcome to NewsRadio 100.5 KXNT! NewsRadio 100.5 KXNT is dedicated to being the dominant information and talk source for Las […] CBS Sports Radio 1140 and 100.5-2 FM HD2 CBS Sports Radio 1140 and 100.5-2 FM HD2 7255 South Tenaya Way Suite 100 Las Vegas, NV 89113 Business Office: 702-889-7300 Business Fax: 702-889-7373 Maureen Pulicella, General Sales Manager, 702-889-7566, [email protected] Kyle Helmick, Promotions & […] LAS VEGAS – A Nevada judge is keeping sealed a legal exhibit that a newspaper, a union and a Washington, DC-based advocacy group sought to make public in a closely-watched wrongful termination case against casino company Las Vegas Sands Corp., Sands China Ltd. and the companies’ chairman Sheldon Adelson.

ONE: Kingdom of Warriors Official Weigh-In Results

17 July 2015 – Yangon, Myanmar: Asia’s largest and the world’s most exciting mixed martial arts organization, ONE Championship™ (ONE) announced today that all mixed martial artists competing at ONE: KINGDOM OF WARRIORS have made weight and are ready for all the action which takes place tomorrow evening at Thuwanna Stadium.

Visit the official ONE: KINGDOM OF WARRIORS face-off photo gallery click here.

MAIN EVENT

Bantamweight bout:Bibiano Fernandes (61.2kg / 135.0lbs) VS Toni Tauru (61.1kg / 134.5lbs)

888 agrees to buy Bwin.Party for £898 million

888 Holdings PLC has agreed to buy Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment for £898.3 million ($1.4 Billon USD), beating out a rival bid by GVC Holdings/Amaya Gaming for £900 million.

888’s cash offer may not be as high as GVC’s, but the company wishes to focus on potential synergies between the two businesses as opposed to breaking up Bwin.Party. The senior management at both 888 and Bwin.Party appear to be pleased with the deal and look forward to working together.

888’s Executive Chairman Brian Mattingley said, “This is a transformational opportunity for 888 in the consolidating online gaming industry, which is expected to grow significantly over the coming years. The Enlarged Group will benefit from significantly enhanced scale, an improved product offering as well as significant cost and revenue synergies”.

Bwin.party chairman Philip Yea said, “Bringing our two groups together will generate substantial financial synergies for the benefit of both sets of shareholders and create a strong player with the breadth of product, brands and geographic coverage to grow faster than either business would be able to achieve stand-alone”.

Sibling Says Brother Isn't In Video of Lottery Ticket Being Purchased

Tommy Tipton came to the Polk County Courthouse on Thursday and testified in the lottery fraud trial of his brother, after being called as a witness by the defense. Tommy Tipton said on the stand that he’s reviewed the surveillance video in question in this case very carefully and he says the person in that video is not his brother.

Lottery to start sales for half of 466 condo units in Howard Hughes' Aeo project

The Howard Hughes Corp. is opening sales for its third Honolulu condominium tower in its Ward Village master plan, Aeo at 1001 Queen Street, this weekend with 234 of the building’s total 466 units being offered to owner-occupants in a public lottery. The building, which is being designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson , will also have 60,000 square feet of retail , including Hawaii’s flagship Whole Foods Market store, is being built on the former Nordstrom Rack and Office Depot site behind the Ward Entertainment Center, is scheduled to be completed in 2018.

PokerStars to Host Largest Ever Online Buy-In Event; Play With Neymar Jr, and Ronaldo Chipping Up Down Under

A trio of news stories from PokerStars including plans to host the first-ever $51k buy-in event in online poker history, a chance to play alongside Neymar Jr, and Cristiano Ronaldo chips up down under.

PokerStars has announced plans to set a new buy-in record with the introduction of a $51,000 buy-in event as part of the 2015 World Championships of Online Poker (WCOOP).

The $51,000 buy-in Super High Roller No-Limit Hold’em event will take place on Sun, Sep 20th – a full week before the $5,200 buy-in Main Event begins.

WCOOP will be celebrating its 14th birthday. An event that has grown from a $730k prize pool in 2002 to over $61m last year. The previous highest buy-in event was a series of $25,000 Heads-Up events held at WCOOP & SCOOP events in circa 2008 – 2011.

Ihre Consulting undergoes serious growth in 2015 New staff and new office in Tel Aviv

Ihre Consulting are pleased to announce the hiring of Yrsa Thunholm,Samantha Gurfinkiel and Rebecka Olausson to expand the Ihre Consulting team to 8.

YrsaThunholm comes from a casino background and was the Business Development Manager for Catena Media, a large affiliate network based out of Malta.  She will be taking the position of Business Development Director at Ihre Consulting, driving projects forward and aiding in the future growth of the company.YrsaThunholm will be based in the Head Office in Stockholm, Sweden.

Samantha Gurfinkielhas 6 years experience in the gaming industry, coming from Bwin.Party and Traffic Point.  As Global Affiliate Manager Samantha is running all the company’s affiliate conversion and retention campaigns and working closely with all our affiliates on a Global scale.

RebeckaOlausson is Ihre Consulting’s Senior Affiliate Manager, working to build relationships and partnerships with our affiliate portfolio as well as assisting with managingour existing clients.  Rebecka comes from Gala Partners, has a Scandinavian casino and bingo background and is an asset to the Ihre Consulting Affiliate Team.

Calling the Clock: WSOP Main Goes all Dexter, Winter Hits Bellagio and Charity Beckons

Lee Davy brings you a round up of all the weekly poker news including his despair at Daniel Negreanu failing to make the final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event, Sean Winter winning the latest incarnation of the Bellagio Cup and much more.

Do you remember the time that Dexter’s sister told him that she was in love with him? You remember the scene right? It was the time a great fucking show turned into a terrible fucking show. I mean you watched it. You had to watch it; like constipation. It hurts, but you have to get to the end. Well that’s how I feel about the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event now that Daniel Negreanu is out.

Fucking scriptwriters.

If it hurts for me, then imagine how much it must hurt for him. I mean it’s not about the money. What difference does another $7.6m make? No, for Negreanu it was all about the glory, his legacy. One minute he is walking down the corridor of poker immortality, candles blowing as he walks by, stained glass windows showing stars of a bygone era, and then nothing. The queen jumps in front of him and says I need that, before ripping his heart out of his chest. One minute it was filled with poetry, and the next it was gone.

Poker Lessons From Napoleon Hill: Lesson #2 Faith

Lee Davy dissects the classic Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill and considers how its lessons have lived through the life of a poker player.

Joseph McKeehen leads the November Nine. He is the favorite to win the $7.6m prize. He has also won eight live poker tournaments in the past 15-months. Joseph McKeehen is a man of faith.

I’m not talking about any religious hocus-pocus – although scientific studies suggest that people who have faith outlive those that don’t – what I am talking about his unnerving belief that he can win poker tournaments.

Napoleon Hill believed that faith – the visualization, and belief in attainment of desire – is the second step towards riches. I believe the vast majority of poker players have unencumbered levels of the stuff.