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Want to go the brights lights and experience the buzz of Vegas? Well now’s your chance.

We have a pair of tickets to Vegas, worth $2500, to be snapped up by a lucky winner. As part oif our special three months of relaunch promotions, Virgin Poker has generously offered the premium economy tickets on Virgin Atlantic to one lucky winner and their friend.

Full Tilt Poker has joined the party in offering WSOP* Main Event seats as they are giving players numerous opportunities to win a $12k prize package to the world’s biggest poker tournament. As always, they are also offering the usual 27% rakeback deals too! Here is a look at some of the different ways you can book your ticket to Las Vegas through Full Tilt: $1 Main Event Seat – Full Tilt is running a number of $1 poker games that give players the chance to win a Main Event seat. You can pay $1 + $0.10 to enter these …

For most online poker players, the closest they’ll ever come to a Playboy Playmate is through the magazines they order every month.  But for Victory Poker players, it’s a very different story…. That’s because Victory Poker gives people the opportunity to not only meet Playboy Playmates, but also to party with them in Las Vegas.  The latest Playmate that Victory Poker is giving internet poker players a chance to party with is 2007 Playmate of the Year Sara Jean Underwood.  If you’re interested in hanging out with Underwood and getting an all-expenses-paid trip to Las Vegas, you should look for …

A lot of poker rooms have trouble scraping up $1 million worth of guaranteed tournaments every month.  So the $14 million in guaranteed tournaments at Hollywood Poker every month is definitely something to get excited about. Basically this means that you’ll never have to worry about having enough cash to play poker for at Hollywood.  Their biggest poker tournament of the month is the $200,000 Championchip, and this tourney happens every Sunday.  If one huge tournament on Sunday isn’t enough for you, then you can also enter the $100,000 Sunday Rebuy as well.  Of course, Sunday isn’t the only day …

Every World Poker Tour tournament is huge, but the WPT Festa al Lago event is definitely one of the biggest.  In fact, the 2009 Festa al Lago poker tournament offered over $4 million in prize money, and winner Tommy Vedes walked away with $1,218,225. Unfortunately, the $10,300 buy-in for Festa al Lago makes this casino poker tourney out of reach for the average online poker player.  And when you factor in the travel costs and hotel stay in Las Vegas……let’s just say you’re better off sitting at home trying to collect rakeback in internet poker. Of course, you could go …

Most of the top poker pros such as Ultimate Bet player Phil Hellmuth and Full Tilt Poker pro Phil Ivey are in Las Vegas competing in the WSOP*.  But PokerStars is trying to make sure that people have other options for winning big money with their UK and Ireland Poker Tour. The most recent stop on the UKIPT was at Killarney where 253 players competed in the Main Event poker tournament for thousands of Euros.  The most notable players in the tourney included PokerStars online poker pro Julian Thew, UKIPT Nottingham champion Andrew Couldridge, and UKIPT Coventry champ Gilles Augustus.  …

Since the World Series of Poker is currently going on, many online poker players think that their chances to attend the world’s largest casino poker event are gone.  But this isn’t the case at all because Ultimate Bet will be awarding 50 Main Event seats this weekend on June 20th. The event happens at 4pm ET, and anybody who completes the Ultimate Bet poker download can participate.  If your bankroll is large enough, you can pay $500 + $30 to enter the main qualifier where the fifty $12,000 prize packages will be given away.  Of course, you don’t need to …

People often associate Las Vegas with excess and over indulgence and we could certainly see their point when we heard about Joey Chestnut! This powerhouse eating machine hit the Vegas headline for his participation in the first ever Martorano’s Masters Meatball Eating Championship. Yes, you did read that correctly, a meatball eating competition! The restaurant owner Steve Martorano came up with the idea, “I was debating whether to have a cheese steak eating contest or a meatball eating contest,” Martorano explained. “We’re really known for our meatballs, though. Gourmet magazine said we have the best meatballs in the world in …

The World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) has been breaking records of attendance all over the world this season. The tournaments are held worldwide and are a series of no limit Texas Hold’em games that are played at a variety of selected casinos around the globe. The event is a run up to the World Series of Poker (WSOP). The event first began in 2005 and has been steadily growing in popularity as the years pass.  This particular tournament may still be in its infancy age wise but it certainly seems to be a healthy bouncing baby! The big event …

The neon city of sin continues to suffer in August as the latest figures came in and paint a clear picture of the effect the US recession is having on the strip. For the 15th month running now, visitor numbers have fallen. In total the numbers over the past 20 months have shown that tourism has taken this hit 18 times. There was high hopes that the summer months would see a reversal of the trend for hotels and casinos operating in Las Vegas and several campaigns were launched in the hope that they would attract people back to the …