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Rudi Schiffer Gaming Guru - Page 8  Heard it on the river12 December 2006
SCOTTY NGUYEN (win) is returning to defend his crown when the WORLD POKER OPEN kicks off at GOLD STRIKE on Jan. 3. He fully expects to play his way into the championship event Jan. 21-25. There was little doubt that Scotty would return.
In the 2006 event last Jan. he took home nearly $1 million. ... (read more)
Heard it on the river3 December 2006
January, with Holiday expenses hanging heavily and tax time down the road, is not the busiest time of the year in the casino industry but two TUNICA casinos have year in an year out figured out how to smooth out that bump when they convert the County into the POKER CAPITAL of the world.
Thousands of ... (read more)
Heard it on the river6 November 2006
Nothing but positive news is coming out of the Gulf Coast these days as far as the casino industry is concerned. The SOUTHERN GAMING SUMMIT returns to BILOXI after staging the industry event in Tunica last year. The 14th annual summit and trade show will be held May 9-10 at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum ... (read more)
Heard It On The River6 October 2006
Putting your money where you county is, a lot of praise can be sung these days for Tunica County officials who had the foresight to make a unique deal with the Mississippi Dept. of Transportation to complete the new I-69 link from I-55 to Highway 61 three years ahead of time. It will bring immense economic ... (read more)
Heard It On The River25 September 2006
Thousands of poker players are in town with more to come to play in THE WORLD SERIES OF POKER underway at GRAND CASINO RESORT. They may like the prize money on the table but the pot at the end of the rainbow is a free entry into the 2007 WSOP in Vegas. HARRAH'S, which owns and operates this prestigious ... (read more)
Heard It On The River24 August 2006
HARRAH'S has picked GRAND CASINO to kick off this season's prestigious WORLD SERIES of POKER circuit on Sept. 24 and running through Oct.4.The high stakes action in KAREN KAEGIN'S tournament area (she's runs the place like a tough house-mother)will offer several tournaments with buy-ins ranging from $300 to ... (read more)
Heard It On The River14 August 2006
The player was a PLOPPY, as gaming author FRANK SCOBLETE likes to call buffoons who clog up blackjack tables everywhere. This particular ploppy had invaded my space on a table recently as I was undergoing a rare win streak and he promptly started telling me where I made the wrong moves while on the other hand asking the dealer what he should do. ... (read more)
Heard It On The River3 August 2006
Competition will pick up this month down on the Gulf Coast with the palatial BEAU RIVAGE set to open on Aug. 29 with what President GEORGE CORCHIS promises to be an even better operation than before. Look for new and improved features, including a celebrity chef in TODD ENGLISH with his own creation, OLIVES restaurant. ... (read more)
Heard It On The River17 July 2006
Check out the photograph on the front page of this issue with a cast of questionable characters that look like they just got in town from New Jersey. Is it Tony Soprano and his gang? Who is the babe? Sure looks like them and it works as the graphic to illustrate a feature story on the appropriately named ... (read more)
Heard It On The River30 June 2006
It's summer time and the catfish are jumping but the news side is slow as the casinos are busy taking care of the influx of vacationers, so forgive me for this shorter than usual column.
One new item, however, is the big blackjack tournament coming to Gold Strike on Aug. 4-6 with $125,000 in prize money and $50,000 guaranteed for first place. ... (read more)
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