Celebrate New Year's at Table Mountain Casino
Buy Your Tickets Now for Joan Jett and the Blackhearts With Special Guest Taylor Dayne and Win Cash and Prizes
Celebrate New Year's Table Mountain Casino style with a special performance by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts with special guest Taylor Dayne.
The concert will be held in the Event Center on Friday, December 31. It will be a night to remember with songs that have been the background music of our lives such as Joan Jett and the Blackhearts hits "I Love Rock 'n Roll," "Bad Reputation," "Crimson and Clover," and "I Hate Myself for Loving You," and Taylor Dayne's "Tell It to My Heart".
All concert attendees have a chance to win a big screen HDTV. Entry tickets will be the concert ticket. A portion of the ticket stub will be deposited into an entry drum as tickets are collected at the door. The drawing will take place on New Year's Eve between sets at the Event Center.
Tickets are now selling at Table Mountain Casino at the main casino cage or online at http://ticketing.tmcasino.com . Tickets for VIP seating are $25 for the general public and $15 for Club members. Tickets for reserved seating are $15 for the general public and $10 for Club members. Doors open at 9 p.m. and the show begins at 10 p.m. Attendees must be 18 years of age or older to attend.
The holiday cheer doesn't end there! After the show stop by the Casino for our New Year's Eve Bash Giveaway. Be one of the lucky eight who take home a share of $20,000. Cash drawings start after midnight on the casino floor. Start off the New Year right with a $2,500 bonus. All members of The Club are eligible to receive one entry ticket. Qualify at The Club booth between 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. on New Year's Eve for the drawings at 12:30 a.m., 1 a.m., 1:30 a.m. and 2 a.m. Visit The Club booth and let The Club host swipe your card to receive your ticket. Entry tickets must be deposited into the entry drum by 11:30 p.m. and New Year's Eve. Concert attendance is not mandatory for this giveaway.
Located just 15 minutes outside of Fresno on Friant Road, Table Mountain Casino features bingo, over 35 table games including Blackjack, Fortune Pai Gow, No Limit Hold'em Poker, Spanish 21, 3-Card Poker, and Let it Ride, as well as 2,000 slot machines.
For an award-winning dining experience, casino patrons can visit Table Mountain Casino's state-of-the-art restaurants, Eagles Landing for elegant dining and Mountain Feast for a 24-hour all-you-can-eat buffet from around the world; both restaurants feature an international and regional dining experience. The California Restaurant Association recently voted Table Mountain Casino "Best Casino Dining in the Valley."
Table Mountain Casino is owned and operated by the Chukchansi-Mono Band of Indians. To learn more about Table Mountain Casino and the current promotions, visit www.tmcasino.com.
CONTACT: Jennifer Borba
559-252-2500
jennifer@thielenonline.com
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POKER ROYALE: THE WPPA CHAMPIONSHIP Hits a Casino Ratings High for GSN
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 8, 2004 -- GSN's new original casino themed series, POKER ROYALE: THE WPPA CHAMPIONSHIP debuted last night with a solid ratings performance of 0.6. This outperforms GSN's previous premieres of WORLD SERIES OF BLACKJACK on March 15, 2004 which brought in a 0.5, CELEBRITY BLACKJACK July 5, 2004 with a 0.5, and CELEBRITY BLACKJACK II on October 12, 2004 which brought in a 0.4. Additionally there was a nice build for the show quarter-hour to quarter-hour, ending in a 0.7 for the last 15 minutes. Moreover, poker.gsn.com received over 4200 entries into the $10 million poker sweepstakes during the evening.Hosted by comedian Kevin Nealon (Saturday Night Live), POKER ROYALE features the country's top amateur and tournament poker players in a game of No Limit Texas Hold 'Em, rewarding the final winner with a grand prize of $125,000 and a GSN bracelet. Additionally, POKER ROYALE: THE WPPA CHAMPIONSHIP features a unique twist with an online sweepstakes allowing one GSN viewer the chance to split $10 million with the tournament champion live, on the final episode on January 11. Brought to you by www.thepokerweb.com
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Copenhagen and Deauville added to European Poker Tour
Roy Brindley The televised European Poker Tour has added two events to their schedule; one in Copenhagen, Denmark, between January 29th-30th and another in Deauville, France (Feb 15th-19th). The European Poker Tour, which will air its coverage on SKY Sports around Eaurope (and probably beyond) in the spring of 2005 has so far visited Barcelona, London and Dublin and these new events will make up legs four and five of the tour, which then goes on to Vienna, Austria for the European World Series Trial in March (10th-12th) and culminates in a €10,000 ($13,300) entry 'Grand Final' event in Monte Carlo, Monaco (March 15th-19th). Entry to the Scandinavian Open is €2,600 ($3,460) with a field size capped at 150 while the beautiful seaside town of Deauville, built in the classic Belle Epoque style, hosts the €2,000 ($2,660) buy-in French Open. It is the first major French poker tournament to be held outside of Paris. So far all EPT winners have received entry into Monte Carlo's showpiece €10,000 event. At the Copenhagen Open both winner and runner-up will be given an entry ticket which is an added prize not funded from the prize-pool. More information on the EPT, run by John Duthie, winner of the inaugural Poker Million on the Isle of Man in 2002, can be found at: www.europeanpokertour.com .
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OnBiz: Go all in at Riddle's new poker dealing pub
It's a long way from Texas, but "Riddle Hold 'Em" does have a bit of a ring to it. Texas Hold 'Em is just one of the games that awaits patrons at the newly opened Players Pub in Riddle.The Riddle bar is licensed to host social gambling, according to owner Steve Cox. There will be tournaments and regular poker games, mainly featuring the increasingly popular Texas Hold 'Em. Thanks to cable television making poker a spectator sport, Cox is hoping to offer a friendly place for locals to pick up a game."No one does it anymore but the casino," he said. There is no fee to play in the games, as the bar cannot profit directly from them. It can, however, make its money selling players beer and wine.Along with cards, there are pool and darts and regular tournaments are planned for those games as well. The Players Pub is located at 309 Main St. in Riddle and is open from 2 p.m. until last call, seven days a week.
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Investor paradise at Sportingbet
Geoff Foster, Daily Mail 7 December 2004 ONLINE gambling group Sportingbet has been on a roll since splashing out £169m in October for Costa Rica-based Paradise Poker, one of the world's top four online poker groups. Its share price has rocketed 80%. But if industry rumours are anything to go by, lucky shareholders could be in for an even bigger jackpot.
Sportingbet jumped a further 8p to an all-time high of 180 1/2p amid whispers that Hilton Group (2 3/4p off at 258 3/4p) - which owns Britain's biggest bookmaker Ladbrokes - has made a tentative bid approach. Dealers heard that it would prefer a 'friendly' deal but it is prepared to go hostile if necessary. A cash offer in the region of £807m, or 250p per share, could be on the cards.
One fund manager said: 'I know the Paradise Poker deal was a big steal at only seven times next year's earnings, but there has been something else behind recent heavy buying of Sportingbet. It comes as no surprise to hear that one of the major bookies could now be sniffing around.'
The Paradise acquisition has put Sportingbet into a different league. It almost doubled its size and gives it a huge foothold in the US market. There is an online poker frenzy in the US and Paradise has more than 700,000 gamblers on its books. Online poker is a high-margin, hugely cash-generative business that is set to expand as the US poker mania spreads overseas.
Still reflecting the 10% stake recently taken by Malaysia's Genting, Stanley Leisure galloped 15 1/4p ahead to 487 1/2p. Stanley's chairman Lord Steinberg pocketed £36m when he sold 10% of his 22% shareholding so that the group could form closer ties with Asia's biggest casino operator.
All bets were off for the Footsie as it fell 40 points before closing 25.1 down at 4722.8. Dealers were spooked by a higher oil price following the terrorist attacks on the US consulate in Saudi Arabia and talk of possible production cuts at Friday's Opec meeting in Cairo. Wall Street traded 65 points lower in early dealings.
Financial information giant Reuters cheapened 8p to 381p on revived competition fears. Rival Bloomberg plans to extend its EBS joint venture to offer foreign exchange trading capability across all 200,000 Bloomberg terminals. News of City job cuts also put the boot in.
Travis Perkins soared 58p to 1488p amid speculation that the builder's merchant is lining up an offer for Wickes, the 'heavy' DIY part of Focus Wickes. FW is owned by private equity house Duke Street and Apax.
Yet another set of record results lifted computer games publisher SCi Entertainment 21 1/2p to a peak of 226p. Punters with new PlayStation 2 consolesboosted sales of its games, particularly the best-selling Conflict: Vietnam which sold 1.2m copies. Full-year profits jumped 28.6% to a record £4.5m.
SCi's pipeline of games is impressive and includes Conflict 4 and Constantine, based on the film starring Keanu Reeves and Rachel Weisz.
Benefiting from the current strong demand for portable electrical devices such as Apple iPods, Wolfson Microelectronics sparked 10 3/4p higher to 130 3/4p.
A warning that fourth-quarter sales will be below earlier expectations due to lower demand in Europe and the US left ceramic maker Churchill China 26p lower at 221 1/2p.
Placed on Aim at 5p by broker Durlacher, shares of India Outsourcing almost trebled to 14 1/2p on heavy buying. The company has been formed to capitalise on acquisition and investment opportunities in the India business process outsourcing market.
Another newcomer, Gatekeeper Systems, a provider of trolley-based anti-theft systems to the retail industry, closed 3p above its 48p placing price.
First Calgary Petroleum gushed 57p to 701p on speculation that Statoil, the Norwegian state- controlled group, is a leading contender to buy First Calgary in an auction process to be held early next year.
Internet and network security group Harrier edged up to 17p despite terminating merger talks with Germany's Articon-Integralis. Harrier said it is now in talks with another interested party which could lead to an offer for the company.
River Diamonds firmed 1/8p to 2 3/4p following an upbeat drilling report.
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Brookstone and Poker Legend Doyle 'Texas Dolly' Brunson Up the Ante on Poker This Holiday with Exclusive Book Offer and Game Selection
December 6, 5:20 am ET
Poker fans can register at http://www.brookstone.com for chance to win a limited, autographed copy of Brunson's much-anticipated new book Super/System 2
Poker legend will also sign advance copies of book at Brookstone Store in New York on Dec. 9
MERRIMACK, N.H. and LAS VEGAS, Dec. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Running the tables this Holiday season, specialty retailer Brookstone, Inc. has teamed up with poker legend and best-selling author Doyle "Texas Dolly" Brunson to launch a premiere line of poker products and promote Brunson's highly anticipated new book Super/System 2.
Beginning today, poker fans around the country can register to win a limited, autographed copy of Brunson's Super/System 2 by logging onto http://www.brookstone.com and typing "Doyle Brunson" in the search box.
In addition, Brunson will conduct a book signing and poker exhibition on Thursday, Dec. 9, from 2-4 p.m. at the Brookstone store at Rockefeller Center in New York. Brunson will sign advance copies of Super/System 2 while they last and will play Texas Hold'em poker using Brookstone's premiere Professional Poker Set with randomly selected people who attend the book signing.
"Brookstone is pleased to be the only retailer in the entire country to offer customers a chance to purchase or win a limited, advance copy of this highly anticipated new book by Doyle Brunson, the renowned patriarch of modern poker," Brookstone Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Michael Anthony said. "We feel this partnership with Mr. Brunson underscores Brookstone's position in the marketplace as the retailer of choice for Holiday gifts and complements our premiere line of authentic poker products, including our Professional Poker Set."
"I've been a fan of Brookstone for many years and believe the retailer is a great venue to promote Super/System 2 to a customer base that is accustomed to innovation and quality," Doyle Brunson said. "I'm looking forward to making the insight and experience contained in Super/System 2 available to players of all levels who want to learn more about how to play and increase their chances of winning at the wonderful game of poker."
Brookstone's premiere Holiday poker lineup includes the Professional Poker Set ($125), which features 400 professional weight chips at 11.5 grams and five instructional cards in a deluxe felt-lined carrying case, as well as a variety of other poker products that range from casino sets, to card shufflers to electronic handheld games.
Super/System 2, Brunson's updated guide that includes new strategies, games and insight from Brunson and other well-known poker pros, is not available for sale in any stores. The only way to receive a copy is by accumulating Action Points at http://www.doylesroom.com/. Details are explained on the site. People who attend the book signing at the Brookstone store at Rockefeller Center in New York can buy advance copies while they last, and Brookstone will give away 100 autographed copies to randomly selected entrants who register online at http://www.brookstone.com.
About Brookstone, Inc.
Brookstone, Inc. is a specialty retailer that operates 286 Brookstone Brand stores nationwide and in Puerto Rico. Typically located in high-traffic regional shopping malls and airports, the stores feature unique and innovative consumer products. The Company also operates five stores under the Gardeners Eden Brand, and a direct marketing business that consists of three catalogs titles -- Brookstone, Hard-to-Find Tools and Gardeners Eden -- as well as e- commerce web sites at http://www.brookstone.com/ and http://www.gardenerseden.com/.
About Doyle Brunson
Doyle Brunson, affectionately known as "Texas Dolly," has reigned over five decades of poker and has sold more than 300,000 copies of his definitive poker guide Super System around the world. His book has gained the respect of both fellow poker pros and serious amateurs who love the game. Brunson, one of the most important figures in the history of poker, continues to promote gambling as a respectable profession. As a member of the world renowned Poker Hall of Fame, he has won nine gold bracelets in the World Series of Poker and claimed poker's biggest prize -- the main-event World Championship -- back-to- back in 1976 and 1977.
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