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Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott hosted a television show this year called How to Become a Poker Millionaire, which featured him training four losing poker players for more than a month to try to turn them into winning players.
The players went through testing and coaching by Ulliott, and they practiced what they learned by playing online poker. The participants then had to play against each other and were eliminated one per episode of the show.
The winner of the show received a seat in the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.
The Devilfish's teachings have now been captured on DVD and were released this week for poker fans.
The DVD includes all the episodes of the TV show plus an extra hour of footage. That footage includes tips from top pros such as Phil Ivey, Doyle Brunson and Phil Hellmuth.
Also included in the DVD are Ulliott's poker rules, including:
- Playing the right starting cards
- Calculating odds
- Playing the right online opponents
- Dealing with tilt
- When to be aggressive
- When to fold
- Bankroll management
Ulliott certainly has the credentials to dish out poker advice. In the course of his poker career he's accumulated more than $5 million in tournament winnings. He also has one WSOP bracelet win as well as a World Poker Tour win on his poker resume.
The DVD went up for sale Dec. 1 and can be found at Zavvi, HMV, Amazon and Woolworths.
"With Christmas just around the corner, this is the perfect stocking filler for players of all levels," Ulliott said. "Pop it on when your 'nan and crazy uncle have been at the sherry and prepare to have fun. But remember ... a Devilfish DVD is not just for Christmas!"
There are free drinks, and then there are free drinks. Las Vegas is known as the free drink capitol of the world, but usually you need to be gambling or at least be good at flirting to get the free drinks. Then there are happy hours, where a bar offers free drinks between certain hours. Now on Dec. 17 between 7 and 9 p.m., there's Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, which will go completely open bar. Yep, all the bars within the casino will be handing out free drinks to celebrate the holiday season. This includes the Center Bar, AGO, Wasted Space, the bar in Pink Taco, and even the bar in the Poker Lounge. And no gambling necessary.
If you're a fan of Star Trek, you'll be boldly going to downtown Las Vegas.
Coming early next year is the popular Star Trek attraction that was bumped from its Las Vegas Hilton digs after 11 years and has found a new home at Neonopolis.
Star Trek: The Experience will surely bring in a new stream of revenue to the aging Fremont mall, and already a list of high-profile establishments have taken an interest... which will be announced Dec. 12.
One place that won't be along for the ride is Jillian's. The restaurant/arcade/concert venue was popular among teens, with long lines outside making it seem Neonopolis was the place to be. Neonopolis developer Rahit Joshi said it was closed (pushed out?) in favor of a new restaurant... which will also be announced Dec. 12.
We thought it strange that the presumably sold-out fight between Oscar De La Hoya and Manny Pacquaio could not only still have tickets available, but those tickets are half-price.
Maybe the economy is curtailing boxing fans from shelling out $1,500 per ticket (the coveted blue tickets, which are also still available).
The fight takes place Saturday, Dec. 6 at 3:30 p.m. (with main event at 6 p.m.) at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
Tickets can be purchased at Goldstar:
Blue section: $750 + $50 fee (regularly $1,500)
Pink section: $500 + $50 fee (regularly $1,000)
Green section: $375 + $35 fee (regularly $750)
Orange section: $250 + $25 fee (regularly $500)Note that tickets will not be available at the box office but through Nevada Tickets, 5030 Paradise Road #B108. So you'd make your purchase, then head to Nevada Tickets on Saturday beginning at noon.
Incidentally, tickets are still available ringside for $20,000. Those aren't discounted.
Nevada Tickets is also selling tickets to a closed-circuit live telecast of the fight, with prices ranging from $95 to $149.
The Tropicana poker room will close in a week. A quick decision that not even the 19 poker employees were aware of, staff was informed late last week about the Nov. 30 closure. Unlike Excalibur or Paris Las Vegas who had the corporate backings of MGM Mirage and Harrah's respectively, the Tropicana poker employees will be laid off and not transferred elsewhere.
The new poker room, however, is operational and located in the new section of the casino next to the 1500-car garage a la Wynn Las Vegas. Nice not to have to trek through the casino to get to the poker room. It's right around the corner from the old poker room, which in turn was next to the buffet. The old poker room has been turned into a high-limit salon. We headed over when we heard an announcement for seats available in the 6 p.m. tournament (at 6:10), yet when we stopped by there was no floor manager to be seen. The desk was left empty for 5 minutes before we headed out... and then we heard another announcement that there were seats available in the tournament. We won't go into too much detail because kinks are still being worked out, but at first glance it's bigger than its first incarnation with about the same number of tables. Let's hope they fixed the problem of the AC blowing full-blast. Their current promotion has buy-ins of $100 receiving $20 between noon and 2 p.m. until Dec. 31. We suspect you have to play at least two hours to qualify, but as there was no one to speak to, we couldn't get the lowdown.
