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Archive for November, 2005
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GENTING Highlands Resorts was voted the world’s leading casino resort at the World Travel Awards 12th Annual Ceremony 2005 in London on Sunday.
Genting Group chairman Tan Sri Lim Kok Thay said in a statement the award was a recognition of Genting’s excellent service and its ability to produce world-class integrated resorts that benefited tourism industries.
“This is also a tribute to all the travel agents and our customers who have supported us throughout our 40 years, as well as our management and employees for delivering first-class service”.
Genting’s head of strategic investments Justin Leong said Genting was an integrated resort that offered not only casinos, but also entertainment, meeting places for business conventions, or simply a place to unwind from the hustle and bustle of city life.
The Genting Group has also cultivated other renowned global travel brands such as the award-winning Star Cruises and the Norwegian Cruise Line.
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I’m sick of watching everyone else win game after game on ESPN, FSN and the
Travel Channel!
Am I jealous of them?
No, most of the guys deserve to win their events. All-time poker greats Doyle
Brunson and Johnny Chan, for example, each won their 10th bracelet at the 2005
World Series of Poker (WSOP), shown on ESPN. Of course, I’m not crazy about the
fact that Chan, Brunson and I were once all tied on No. 9 and vying to be first
to cross the double-digit mark.
No, I’m just irked that I haven’t won a tournament in a while. Yes, I did win
the NBC Heads-Up Championships this year, but a big win at WSOP, the World Poker
Tour (WPT), the upcoming Superstars of Poker III or another big televised event
in Europe (two are being shot in Monte Carlo in late November) wouldn’t hurt. A
man has his reputation to think of (and not because he’s a poker brat).
Feeling hungry to win again, I went to Las Vegas ready to tackle the Doyle
Brunson $10,000 buy-in WPT event at the Bellagio. The event began on Oct. 18,
and the first order of business was to make it through day one. Making it
through that far generally requires playing very few pots, and keeping yourself
out of harm’s way by avoiding the weaker starting hands.
So what did I do?
I reraised with the super-weak 7h-5h!
With the blinds at $200-$400, the player on my right, Player N (N for nice
guy) opened by making it $1,200 to go. I felt he was weak and I reraised it,
making it $2,800 to go. He then called my $1,600 reraise. After a flop of
As-Qh-9d, Player N checked, I bet out $1,200, and Player N called.
As he called the bet, I sensed again that he was pretty weak. The next card
was the 6h — for As-Qh-9d-6h — giving me both a straight draw (I needed an
eight) and a flush draw.
Player N checked, and now I had a decision to make. I did have a decent draw,
but what did Player N have? I had sensed some weakness in him both before and
after the flop, so I decided that I had better follow through on my bluff. I bet
out $3,000 and he called. The last card was the 3h, yes! (But be careful what
you wish for!) I had hit my ”back-door” flush (back door meaning that I had
hit both the fourth card and the last card in completing my hand), and the fact
that it was back door meant that it was even stronger than if I had flopped a
draw and hit it on the last card.
It was inconceivable that Player N also had a back-door flush —
inconceivable, that is, until he check-raised my $5,000 bet all-in for his last
$10,000.
No! I sat there in stunned silence, recounting the hand in my head.
To gain more information from my opponent, before deciding whether to call, I
told him I had made a back-door flush, and now he seemed a bit frightened. In
that instant I called his bet, and he said, “Phil, my flush isn’t very
big.”
Quietly, he flipped up the 10h-8h.
I sat there in disbelief; not only had I lost with a back-door flush in a
one-on-one situation, but I had successfully fished around for information by
chatting up player N, and he had given me the ”weak tell” I needed to see, in
order to call him.
You see, since Player N knew that I had a flush (I told him), he showed
weakness because he feared that I had a king-high or jack-high flush. Talk about
great information backfiring.
Was I extremely unlucky in this hand? Sure, but I could have avoided it
completely by simply folding the 7h-5h, and waiting until day two or day three
to try to outplay my opponents. I blame myself for going against my game plan,
namely, to play very conservatively on day one, and make sure I made it to day
two!
By Phil Hellmuth
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Cut price Airline, Ryanair, have announced they plan to offer
inflight gambling – that could ultimately replace actual airfares.
Ryanair, famous across Europe for their £1+ deals, already give away a large
number of seats – and predict the offer of gambling could increase those free
seats too 50-100% – the airline currently makes alternative revenues from hotel
bookings and car rental.
He has been talking about expanding inflight entertainment on
Ryanair for more than a year, during which time the airline introduced and then
withdrew an onboard individual video and entertainment system.Ryanair had hoped a quarter of its annual 35 million passengers would use the
system, while only 7-8 percent did, O’Leary said.He said the airline now has similar hopes for gaming and gambling, and sees
potential revenues of "a multiple of euros per passenger."
So does ‘duty free’ extend to duty free gambling? Or how does the tax issue
of gambling come into play over certain countries. It’ll be interesting to see
how or if this pans out
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