WPT and WSOP ready to burn up Vegas
Las Vegas is all set for another high pressure round of big time tournament poker which kicks off next week, starting with the World Poker Tour's season ending World Championship at the Bellagio, and continuing with the World Series of Poker at the Rio. The WSOP runs a seven week stretch from late June to mid-August.
The WPT Championship, which runs April 18-24 and concludes the tour's fourth season, is a $25,000 buy-in, and is expected to attract as many as 600 players for a total prize pool of as much as $15 million and a first-place haul of $3.5 million.
Attack of the 100ft Housewife
Maxim Magazine has devoted a small section of the Las Vegas desert to Eva Longoria, in a prank that is decidedly out of this world. The cover of this month's Maxim Magazine (starring Eva Longoria of Desperate Housewives fame) was recreated venti in the desert, and is so big that it's viewable from space.
To prove it, you can see the image in Google Earth by clicking a link on their website.
Hellmuth takes over the Showdown
So it seems that Celebrity Poker Showdown, the show that poker enthusiasts love to hate, has been revamped without host Phil Gordon and with Phil Hellmuth instead. I think this is likely a good move... it will create more heated conversation and controversy. It's like American Idol. People don't honestly tune in to hear amateur singers poorly belt out their favorite Barry Manilow tunes, do they? I mean - if the idol comes from your home town... then MAYBE. But for the majority of viewers, they tune in for one reason and one reason alone... to see Simon Cowell rip apart the mediocre talent.
Phil Hellmuth will bring that same feeling to Celebrity Poker Showdown. It likely won't be the same high-level ripping that Cowell has perfected, but expect to see Hellmuth's smarmy, irritating behaviour make itself evident early on.
