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Hard Rock LV gets new owner
Richard Branson has acquired the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas for an undisclosed amount of money.
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Monday, April 2, 2018
Playtech to host 1st GSA Blockchain Committee meeting in London
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Playtech to host 1st GSA Blockchain Committee meeting in London
Counting Crows to celebrate 25 years of music at Hard Rock Casino
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Counting Crows to celebrate 25 years of music at Hard Rock Casino
On 14 July, the band will bring its worldwide tour to the Las Vegas casino. Tickets go on sale this Friday.
Scott Powrie Emerges as Chip Leader after WSOP Circuit Planet Hollywood Main Event Day 2
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Scott Powrie Emerges as Chip Leader after WSOP Circuit Planet Hollywood Main Event Day 2
The player bagged 3.925 million in chips last night and was the only player to crack the three million mark on Day 2 of the $1,675 buy-in tournament. He cemented his leading position by winning a massive pot during the very last level of play.
This will be Powrie’s first cash from the WSOP Circuit series. And the player has secured an excellent position to add a gold ring to the money. Powrie’s WSOP player record shows that he has a single cash from the WSOP. It dates back to 2013, when the player finished 20th in a $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em event.
As mentioned above, Powrie had 3.295 million in chips at the end of Day 2. The player’s stack was nearly two times larger than that of Barry Hutter who finished second in chips last night with 1.754 million. Hutter has a WSOP gold bracelet and a WSOP Circuit gold ring under his belt.
Benjamin Zamani, proud holder of two pieces of jewelry from the WSOP, bagged the third largest stack last night. The player will enter the tournament’s final day of play with 1.5 million in chips.
As it can be seen, Powrie is set to face quite some contenders for the title and the gold ring.
Tough Competition
Action is set to resume at noon local time today at the host venue. The ten players will play down to a winner. Each of the survivors is guaranteed a minimum payout $14,347. Needless to say, sights are set on the gold ring for the winner and first-place prize of $192,152 that goes with it.
The event’s champion will also earn a seat into the season-ending Global Casino Championship. The player who is crowned the Global Casino Champion will be awarded a WSOP gold bracelet. The prestigious event will take place on August 7-9 at Harrah’s Cherokee in North Carolina.
The Planet Hollywood Main Event attracted a large field of 870 entries, who generated a prize pool of $915,000. The money was split into 63 payouts. The money bubble burst on Sunday, with Steve Miller becoming the unfortunate bubble boy. The player departed in 64th place after failing to hold up against final tablist Hank Mlekoday in an all-in confrontation. Mlekoday eventually secured a spot among the final ten, although he will enter the Day 3 eighth in chips with 635,000.
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Casino Operator Silver Heritage Locked in Legal Dispute in Nepal
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Casino Operator Silver Heritage Locked in Legal Dispute in Nepal
Silver Heritage owns and operates two casinos in Nepal – The Millionaire’s Club & Casino at Hotel Shangri La in the capital and the recently opened Tiger Palace casino resort in Bhairahawa. The Hong Kong company controls its Nepalese operations through Silver Heritage Management Services Kathmandu Pvt Ltd.
Up until February, Rajendra Bajgain served as Director at the entity and as Silver Heritage’s local partner. The Hong Kong casino operator decided to remove Mr. Bajgain from his post in February. In the company’s annual financial report, released late last week, Chairman David Green explained that the decision to dismiss Mr. Bajgain was made after the latter “embarked on a series of actions” to bring the casino gaming group into disrepute.
Tiger Palace officially opened doors on March 17 after multiple delays due to funding issues and regulatory hurdles. It was not before late 2017 that Silver Heritage finally received a license from Nepalese regulators to operate casino gaming at its new resort.
Foreign Workers at the Core of the Legal Dispute
Mr. Bajgain brought the matter to the Kathmandu District Court, asking to have the Silver Heritage decision reversed. The court sided with the former director at the company’s Nepali unit. Silver Heritage appealed the decision in the Patan High Court.
Nepal’s Department of Immigration launched a probe into Mr. Bajgain’s claims. It is understood that a three-member panel conducted an on-site investigation and talked to five foreign officials working at Tiger Palace. All five of them had been granted a “gratis visa”, which is issued to diplomats and business executives working in Nepal.
An immigration official told local media that there were indeed five officials who were sent by Silver Heritage to work at Tiger Palace, but the Immigration Department was yet to discover whether they had their salaries deposited within Nepal. If it turns out that the salaries of any of the five officials are deposited in Hong Kong, that would mean that Silver Heritage is violating Nepalese regulations.
Obtaining a work permit in Nepal is a lengthy process. As explained by an immigration official, foreigners who are hired in Nepal-based companies are first granted a tourist visa for a period of 150 days, during which they can apply for a work permit. The official further pointed out that proposals have emerged for foreign workers to be able to process their work permit from abroad so that they can start working legally in Nepal from the day of their arrival.
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Sunday, April 1, 2018
Banco Casino to host Cash Game Festival this month
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Banco Casino to host Cash Game Festival this month
Valentin Vornicu Leads 113 Players into WSOP Circuit Planet Hollywood Main Event Day 2
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Valentin Vornicu Leads 113 Players into WSOP Circuit Planet Hollywood Main Event Day 2
The second of two starting flights was completed on Saturday at the host venue. Vornicu bagged 300,000 chips Saturday night to lead a pack of 113 hopefuls who survived the event’s two starting fights to advance into Day 2.
Vornicu is tied with Maurice Hawkins with ten gold rings from the WSOP Circuit series, and the player positioned himself very well to win a record-breaking eleventh piece. The player is set to return to Planet Hollywood today at noon local time together with the other remaining hopefuls. Ten more 60-minute levels will be played so tha the field to be reduced further.
The Planet Hollywood Main Event drew 260 entries during Day 1A and 610 more during Day 1B. An overall field of 870 entries was thus generated across the two starting flights. The tournament entries created a prize pool of $915,000, which will be distributed to the top 63 finishers. This means that the money bubble is set to burst at some point today.
Notable Survivors
Barry Hutter, Jared Jaffee, Ankush Mandavia, and Mohsin Charania are few of the former WSOP gold bracelet winners who secured a spot among the Day 2 survivors. Former WSOP Main Event Champion Ryan Riess is too still in contention.
There are also some WSOP Circuit notables who survived that initial stage of the tournament, including Dyan Wilkerson, Brett Murray, and Wendy Freedman. They are all former WSOP Circuit gold ring winners.
Former WSOP Main Event Champion Kevin MacPhee was not lucky enough to survive into Day 2. The player was joined on the rail by David Baker, Larry Wright, and Scott Clements, among others.
As mentioned above, bursting the money bubble would be on the top of the remaining survivors’ agenda for Day 2 of the Main Event. Only the top 63 performers will leave with a share of the prize pool. Minimum cashes start from $2,992. The winner will receive the total amount of $192,152, a gold ring and a seat into the Global Casino Championship. The season-ending event is set to take place in August at Harrah’s Cherokee in North Carolina. Its participants will contend for the Global Casino Champion title as well as for a WSOP gold bracelet.
But as the WSOP Circuit has a few more steps to complete before wrapping its 2017/2018 season, sights are now and for now set on those.
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