Poker was a game available only in hotels in Vegas or from video poker machines, but now it is more widespread than ever in Vegas thanks to the TV and the internet.

The popular Venetian Hotel, is now betting on this popularity with its new audience-participation show called “The Real Deal!” in its showroom located in the Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino, starting in October.

Their new show will combine comedy and game show elements to entertain its live audience. The audience will also be able to join in the well loved game of Texas Holdem’ alongside the world’s best poker players. Many prizes are available for the audience including a chance to win 1$ million.

In “The Real Deal!” the audience will play with players like Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu. Around 10 professional players have already signed up for the game show. The audience will be able to play along with the 90 minute game thanks to handheld, wireless, touch screen devices located on each seat.

“People who take a trip to Las Vegas, Nevada want to play poker games,” Negreanu says, “but obviously they can’t play in a top poker tournament with the likes of Doyle or Phil Hellmuth. But, in this show, they actually can.” At the start of the show, six audience members will be chosen to sit at the poker table on stage with two professional players. Each audience member is then involved in the action by being dealt a unique set of poker cards on their devices. Everyone in the showroom is then involved in the action with big-screen monitors located on stage.

Creators of the show say that you don’t have to be a pro poker player to take part in the poker tv show. There are other ways to boost your point total, that doesn’t involve the game of poker necessarily. Betting on the suit of the next poker card or trying to guess which state a particular audience member is from, are just some of the ways to come out a poker champion in this game.

The shows producers are also placing bets on the personalities of the pro poker players to create some great moments. Poker players like Scotty Nguyen, the flamboyant five-time winner of the World Series of Poker, definitely definitely knows how to entertain the audience and should provide some memorable moments in this TV poker game show .

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Can you imagine walking into a well known Sin City casino hotel and seeing no dealers, chips, or cards? Well if this seems not easy to believe, you may be in for a big shock. The Las Vegas, Nevada based hotel Excalibur is now testing with this new radical idea of automating everything from the dealers, to the actual poker tables. Executives from the hotel are going to equip the areas with 12 digital machines for a six-month trial period.
The North-Carolina based company PokerTek is in charge of the automated machines, which are redoing the way poker will be played in Vegas. The business already has 230 computers around the world, with the biggest located in Casino du Montreal (a total of 25 computers were installed in this Canadian hotel).
So what are the downsides of this change? For starters, about 40 Excalibur poker dealers will be searching for new jobs. Some of these dealers have been working at the hotel since its opening in 1990. Todd DeRemer, Excalibur’s Vice President of Casino Operations, says that the poker dealers will be offered other dealer jobs in the same casino hotel.
According to DeRemer, the renovation is being made to give rookie players a chance to play this popular game without feeling intimidated. He had already played these new machines before deciding upon the modification. “It’s not overwhelming”, he says, “We think that portion will bring back the business”.
The new machines will allow the gamblers to play Texas hold’em, seven card stud and Omaha. 40-inch flat screen televisions, which are located in the middle of the table, will illustrate each table’s community cards, player’s stakes and the pot.

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Playing in online poker rooms and casinos can be a tremendous amount of fun and excitement for the player who has enough skill to win consistently and enjoy themselves without financial risk. This focus on playing in online poker rooms and casinos and winning big is very popular across the United States as well as the world as more and more players flock to online poker rooms seeking their fortunes. But, as players begin to become more and more enamored of the online poker rooms and casinos such as Fulltiltpoker.com, they are finding out how quickly it can become uncomfortable to sit at a chair in front of a computer desk all day. With this focus on getting away from the chair comes the concept of the wireless PCMCIA card and a suitable laptop. With a laptop and a wireless card, the online poker room player can participate in games and gambling on the Internet from almost anywhere that has the included wireless broadcast service, referred to as the wireless access point.

With wireless technology, players can play in online poker rooms and casinos while driving down the road in many cities, and, if nothing else, many restaurants and other establishments feature free WiFi access to any customers who get close enough to access the wireless access point. With this ubiquitous availability of wireless Internet access points it is a simple enough matter to grab the laptop and leave the house, breaking up the routine of sitting around and playing poker all the time. With this focus on doing something meaningful and fun out of doors and in new places, the online poker room and casino player can begin to take some of their life back that might have been otherwise spent in nonstop never ending Internet poker room play.
In the modern day, laptops equipped with wireless PCMCIA cards are a dime a dozen and can be found readily on auction sites such as eBay and in other locations. Locating a second hand laptop and using it for wireless access to online poker rooms and casinos can improve the quality of life of the online poker room player tremendously. Enjoying a picnic with your family and continuing to enjoy playing in online poker rooms and casinos can be the height of relaxation on the part of the online poker room and casino player.

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The lure of becoming a professional poker player strikes many, as with the increased exposure to the mainstream audience through television and film as well as all manner of publications on the web and in traditional print media, poker has drawn a tremendous amount of would-be professional players. Considering the fact that anybody can learn how to play poker and become a strong player in the poker game in a very short time, it is not unfeasible that you could indeed become a professional poker player almost overnight.

If this is indeed your plan, or even if you are an experienced player with several successful wins under your belt, there are still ways to streamline your lifestyle into maximizing your profits and minimizing your expenditures. First and foremost, if you do not live in Las Vegas, then you very likely are spending far too much on transportation to and from the area to maximize your winnings and profits. While it might seem strange, the first step in saving money and reducing expenditures for the professional poker player should be to look into purchasing an RV. While it might seem strange and even somewhat undignified to stay in a recreational vehicle full time, it is important to realize that simple mathematics prohibits the professional player, especially the inexperienced professional poker player, from staying in Las Vegas hotel rooms that charge upwards of $100 a night while trying to build the professional poker player bankroll. Eliminating this extreme expense will do a lot to help the poker player remain solvent and keep a strong bankroll.

Investing in an RV can pay immediate dividends, but it is important to consider the financial strength of your particular situation before suddenly deciding simply to become a professional Las Vegas poker player. It might make more sense for you to relocate to the Las Vegas area, rather than invest in an RV. But if this is the case, then it is well advised for the poker player to locate a second hand or used RV for the lowest possible price and renovate it for the player’s private use. Considering the Las Vegas heat, it might be a good idea to provide some additional insulation as well as other considerable amenities.
Simple mathematics will prove that almost any RV, even a brand-new RV, would be cheaper than staying in hotel rooms for the duration of the players competition and poker tournaments and cash poker games in Las Vegas.

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