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“This is one of my all-time favorite poker tournaments,” said Annie Duke, UltimateBet’s Cardroom Consultant and member of Team UB. “While the UB community is famous for gathering together at all sorts of other poker tournaments like the WSOP, Aruba is all about celebrating the successes of UltimateBet’s online poker players. I can’t wait to meet the people I play against online, party with old friends on the beach and make some new ones.”

Over the last year, UltimateBet has secured some of the world’s most respected poker players for its popular Team UB. To date, the group of online poker pros made up of those who have achieved incredible success online and in land-based events has skyrocketed to 16. Each member of the group has confirmed their attendance in the 2009 Aruba Poker Classic.

Slated to play are Phil Hellmuth, Annie Duke, Joe Sebok, Adam Levy, Billy Kopp, Bryan Devonshire, Brandon Cantu, Debo34, Hollywood Dave, Liv Boeree, Matt Graham, Michael Binger, P0ker H0, Scott Ian, Shawn Rice and Tiffany Michelle.

Also confirmed to play in the event are professional poker players Lacey Jones and Matt Vengrin, who both play on the CEREUS Poker Network. While the expanded list of pros from outside of the CEREUS Poker Network hasn’t been reported, the Aruba Poker Classic has attracted some big name poker players in past years, including Mike Matusow, Evelyn Ng, and Johan Storakers.

The Aruba Poker Classic, UltimateBet’s signature island poker tournament, heads into its 8th year at the Radisson Aruba Resort & Casino. The weeklong poker experience runs from October 3rd through 10th and features a multi-million dollar prize pool.

Last year’s Main Event was won by Matt Brady of Havertown, PA, who took home $1 million for his victory. It’s rumored that the poker champion will show up to defend his title.

Players can still secure a $5,500 seat through an online satellite or buy directly into the event right up until the first hand is dealt.

Royal Ace customer service manager, Paulie Mancini, reviewed the account on Sunday afternoon and said that Hasmik was doing well right from the beginning. “She had worked her way up to an over $8,000 balance within the first four hours of play. Then everything really got exciting when she made her first big hit for $64,000 in our slot machine Paris Beauty at around 3AM of the 26th. That changed everything,” he said. He went on to layout the timeline of the biggest hits Hasmik made over the weekend. “Her balance was bouncing around quite a bit, and when she made her next hit for $15,000 in Paris Beauty, her balance had fallen from $73,000 to less than $68,000. After the $15,000 hit though, she was back up to almost $100,000,” Paulie explained.

Without going over every win the player made over these three days of playing, we can layout all of the big wins for you. Between the time of Hasmik’s initial $100 deposit and the first few big slots wins we mentioned above, she then switched to playing Royal Ace Casino’s Triple Toucan slot machine and hit for another $45,000, $27,000, and then culminating in a $270,000 hit during the free spin feature of Triple Toucan on Sunday afternoon; at which point her balance was over the $400,000 mark.

When we spoke to Paulie later that afternoon, he told us, “At this point, Hasmik has just a couple of hundred dollars in her casino account and a withdrawal of $410,000 pending. This is one of the biggest slots wins we have seen to date, and all of us here are very excited for her. It’s not every day we get to congratulate someone on winning almost half a million dollars.”

Paulie went on to say that Royal Ace Casino is looking forward to seeing a lot more wins of this size as the amount of players increase along with the size of each of their slot machines jackpots.

Ace Revenue’s Marketing Manager, Raymond Carpenter, stated after the show, “When we went to the convention in Budapest, we expected to have to work a little harder than we did. Because we’re a new program, without a long standing track record in the industry, we had planned on spending most of our time trying to win over new clients. It ended up being nothing like that. Affiliates were happy, and even excited, to join up with Ace Revenue. It’s funny, we were even joking with each other after the show that we had the busiest booth at the convention… and we didn’t even have a booth!”

During the convention, Ace Revenue not only sponsored lunch for everyone attending, they also credited every single affiliate to sign up with them in Budapest with $200 into their new Ace Revenue accounts. One of the other unique things that Ace Revenue did that created some buzz was to give away a free microphone/speaker unit that was said to have been “one of the coolest gadgets at the show.” In addition to all of that, they also hosted a lucky draw on Saturday evening and gave away four iPhones to random attendees of the Budapest convention.

While Ace Revenue definitely did their best to get the attention of prospective affiliates during their visit to Budapest with food, gifts and prizes, nothing attracted the attention of casino affiliates more than the great deals they offer as an affiliate program. During their visit, Ace Revenue made clear that they offer their partners many different ways to earn money, will help them with their acquisition efforts, and are even willing to do some of the marketing on their affiliates behalf. Raymond Carpenter went on to say, “While gifts and prizes are nice, our main goal was to offer a good solid program to our affiliates and to make it clear that we are planning on doing whatever it takes to make everyone on our team, including our affiliates, as successful as possible. I can’t imagine our visit to Budapest being any more successful than it was. It gave us a great satisfaction when our existing affiliates said that we are the best converting affiliate program around.”

Another Ace Revenue staff member mentioned that they were thankful to all of the affiliates they were able to meet during the conference and stated that they looked forward to seeing the business relationships established there grow and prosper.

Ace Revenue currently has three online casino clients, Silver Oak Casino, Planet 7 Casino and Royal Ace Casino. Anyone who is interested in learning more about Ace Revenue and their casino affiliate program can visit their site at www.AceRevenue.com.

The tower’s opening will be competing for county inspectors’ attention with MGM Mirage’s CityCenter, which will be opening around the same time.

Meanwhile, construction is continuing on the nearly 20,000-square-foot lobby area overlooking the pool. The lobby area will include a check-in counter, restaurant, Starbucks, a bar and retail space.

Construction is also nearing completion on a 15,000-square-foot convention area and seven additional meeting rooms.

The PH Towers is a 52-story tower being built on four acres next to the Miracle Mile Shops. The project is a partnership between Planet Hollywood Resort and Westgate, a Florida-based timeshare company.

About 20 percent of the inventory will be time shares, with the rest used as hotel rooms for the resort, which has 2,496 rooms.

Plans call for two more towers totaling 1,586 rooms by November 2013.

Planet Hollywood received 13,345 applicants for 800 jobs which begin training in late October. The workers will work for Planet Hollywood, which will operate the tower for Westgate.

According to a licensing agreement signed two days ago, Wager Works top online casino licensee, Virgin Games, now has full rights to offer ten of Cryptologic’s most popular video slots, including one of the most popular series of games offered by any online casino software developer – the Marvel Superhero slots series. Themed on the individual superhero’s immortalized by Marvel’s comic book series, this particular series of games is tied into a wide area progressive jackpot that has consistently paid out big numbers, and at one point in time, surpassed the $4 million mark.

Virgin Games, which was formed back in 2004, is the same “Virgin” brand and brainchild of Richard Branson, bringing you music, airline flights and all sorts of other merchandise. In the virtual world, Virgin’s success has been nothing short of the global company’s land-based exploits. Virgin Casino is the sole, flagship site dedicated to offering European/UK players some of the most cutting edge online casino games, and you guessed it, will soon be offering Cryptologic’s Marvel Superhero slots.

In fact, Virgin Casino reportedly already has one of the licensed games integrating with its platform at this very moment. The remaining slots are expected to be launched in the latter part of 2009, and another batch by the mid-half of 2010. While integration certainly takes time, another reason for the spacing out of game launches is in order for all of the casino games to get their fair share of limelight, so to speak. Indeed, each slot title has plenty to offer players, and will engage several hours of action before tiring players out. In other words, the boredom factor for these slots is pretty low, which is one of the reasons why they’ve managed to do so well with players.

And you thought it was because of all the comic book fans. If you’re at all interested in getting a taste of the Marvel slots, you might want to read the OCS Virgin Casino Review or just head straight over to Virgin Casino and start earning comp points (V-points) that can be redeemed for frequent flyer miles and more. Or, you could try your hand at Cryptologic’s leading online casino licensee, Inter Casino. The choice is yours. Oh, and you might want to consider some of the Playtech casinos, which after following in the steps of Cryptologic, have developed their own take on the Marvel comics slots machines. The only catch for any of these online casinos is that you can’t be from the U.S. Man, does it hurt being American.

The shift is that more women are playing table games, which have traditionally been more popular with men, both in the brick ‘n mortar and online casinos. Online roulette, specifically, has been getting more attention from women likely because of its similarities with bingo. Both games are played with numbered boards, albeit a card is used in bingo, while the gist of both is that randomly drawn numbers determine the outcome of the game. Roulette uses a spinning wheel and metal ball, while bingo uses plastic balls and hand-spun device.

Of course, in the online world, there are neither metal balls nor plastic balls. Everything is virtual, which brings up another factor likely contributing to online roulette’s popularity with women gamblers. Unlike the land-based casino, where other players and the dealer often add heightened pressure to hurry up and make a bet, online roulette allows bettors to take as much time as they need in between wagers.

Considering there are plenty of bets to choose from – ranging in odds from even bets to 35 to 1, there is certainly a need for considering which bets are the most advantageous, not to mention best suited to your bankroll. Again, like online bingo, online roulette allows players to make lower stakes, thus bringing more playing time in the long run.

When all is said and done, online roulette actually provides more strategic decision making than internet bingo, which is purely a luck-of-the-draw game. Roulette requires more thought out decisions that can help players get a lower Casinos edge than many other games – especially slots.

“The organized act of civil disobedience by Casino-Free Philadelphia came as the casino company announced it planned to have a formal groundbreaking ceremony on Oct. 8 for its slots parlor.

“More than 40 people gathered for the protest on Delaware Avenue about 6 a.m.

“They carried signs and banners wore red shirts that read ‘Bankrupt them’” on the front and ‘Before they bankrupt us’ on the back.

“About a dozen chanting volunteers sat down and linked arms in front of the construction gate…”

Iliana fought off competition from over 200 applicants to win the coveted title and will now be the face, and arms, of an international marketing campaign for the website www.UnluckyForSome.co.uk.

Applicants were whittled down to ten finalists who then attended a final casting session at a secret London location on Thursday.

The finalists included a former catwalk model, an underwear model who has shared the limelight with Katie Price, and a film extra who has worked as a body double for Dawn French and Fern Britton.

The competition which was the first of its kind was born out of UnluckyForSome’s desire to feature a real woman in their advertising campaign as opposed to a stick thin model.

A spokesman for the website said: “We were sick of stick thin models and were sure we weren’t alone. We wanted a real woman to front our campaign and we are delighted that so many ladies came forward and answered our call.

“All we asked for was that the winner had a bubbly personality and was a larger than life character.

“We knew that asking for overweight or obese applicants was a bit risqu? as it had never been done before but we wanted a woman who acknowledged her size and was totally happy with it.”

Actress Iliana, who describes herself as big, bubbly and bouncy says she entered the competition as she thought it would be a good laugh.

Iliana said: “I’ve always been a big girl but it doesn’t bother me at all. Having seen the advert for the competition I thought I would be perfect for the role, plus the fact that I love a game of bingo really helps.

“I was delighted when I was told I had made it to the final but my main aim was to just turn up and enjoy myself.

“It was a really fun day and meeting the other finalists was great. Seeing so many larger than life women in one room was a real breath of fresh air.

“I really believe that the most important thing is to just be happy with yourself and not to be what other people tell you you should be.”

Now Iliana is relishing the opportunity to start her role as UnluckForSome brand ambassador.

Iliana will receive ?1,000 prize money as well as being given a ?100,000 (pro rata) contract.

Iliana said: “I never in a million years thought I would win the competition especially as all of the other contestants were so great. I can’t wait to get started!”

Resort Chief Executive Officer and President Tom McCartney said the arrests, and the expulsion of thousands of customers from the resort this year by security and police, are part of a collaborative effort with authorities to keep customers safe.

“In the time that I have been here, the focus of the property has been to always work with Metro (police) and government agencies,” McCartney, who took over the property in January, said. “We’ve never deviated from that.”

McCartney added, “Our interest is the public interest. We want to protect the property, the customers and the employees.”

The recent arrests come as the property is under scrutiny from Metro and gaming regulators following the state Gaming Control Board’s finding in July that the resort failed to adequately oversee activities at the Priv? nightclub. Planet Hollywood Resort agreed to a $500,000 fine, and could be fined an additional $250,000 if another complaint is filed against the hotel-casino before July 31, 2011.

State casino regulators did not return calls last week seeking comments on the latest arrests and whether the control board may take further action against the resort.

McCartney, however, said the six arrests and the fine were “coincidences of events” that, unfortunately, occurred during a brief space of time. He insisted the actions don’t point to a larger problem of the hotel-casino not properly maintaining operational control of the resort.

The latest arrests involve two Planet Hollywood bartenders who were taken into custody by Metro police Sept. 17.

Bartenders Jabari Cameron and Eric Andrade, both 35, were arrested on charges of selling liquor to a minor and allowing a minor to gamble.

Police spokesman Bill Cassell said the two men allegedly also allowed prostitutes to operate and alerted them when vice officers were on the property.

Metro’s vice unit originally alerted Planet Hollywood Resort on Aug. 12 that it had received information that the bartenders were tipping off prostitutes, some of whom might be under age.

At that time, Metro also served Planet Hollywood Resort with a “notice of noncompliance,” although the notice was withdrawn Wednesday after discussions between police and property officials.

The notice of noncompliance could have caused more problems for Planet Hollywood Resort by spurring an investigation of the property’s liquor license and further scrutiny from state gaming regulators.

McCartney said the notice was withdrawn because the hotel-casino had been asked not to take action against the bartenders while Metro’s vice unit continued its investigation, which led to the bartenders’ arrests five weeks later.

Metro spokesman Jay Rivera declined to comment, stating the case is not closed.

A high-ranking Metro official, however, confirmed McCartney’s story and said the notice was issued because of a miscommunication between departments.

The Priv? nightclub problem led to control board member Randall Sayre holding a three-hour seminar this month to help casino licensees understand what is expected of them when it comes to overseeing activities at their properties.

While regulators are concerned about the crimes, they are also concerned with the operation breakdown that allows these crimes to happen.

“We want to see a progressive, preventive policy in place in order to keep that from happening,” Sayre said. “You must be able to demonstrate to us that you do have an aggressive security approach to keeping those minors out of your casino.”

In addition to the bartenders, Gaming Control Board agents on Aug. 21 arrested four poker room employees — Thomas R. Kordick, Scott Marshall, Jason Peterson and Jonathan Sanner — in an alleged plot to take phony jackpot payoffs.

Property officials alerted regulators about the four casino managers and their supervisors, McCartney said.