Online Gambling Roundup Sep-28-09

Welcome to another in our regular series of roundups. Hope Monday’s post gives you some useful info to start your day with. Trust you all had a good weekend and here’s to a fun and lucky week ahead.

Betfair Celebrate Lefty

first up today…

Steve rejoices in seeing Lefty back in the winners circle, but he also has King Kenny to thank for a great weekend

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UltimateBet are looking forward to the Aruba Poker Classic

next - here’s their latest contribution:

A week from today and the 2009 Aruba Poker Classic will be under way. Well, the Main Event doesn’t start till Monday but there’ll be satellites and sit-n-goes and small tournaments over the weekend…you know what I mean. The Welcome Banquet will be held Sunday night, and as always that huge bash (as well as the Awards Banquet at the end of the week) will be held on the deck of the Radisson pool. That glorious concrete tank plays rather a large role during the Aruba Poker Classic, as those who have attended in the past can attest.

For the parties it’s a glamorous backdrop for a night of cool sea breezes and calypso music and many, many Balashis. It’s also Phil Hellmuth’s favorite prop when he grabs the microphone and addresses the crowd during the party. See, Phil likes his parties a bit rowdy, and one of the ways he does that is to offer people money to jump in the pool. Two years ago I believe he offered $500 for the first ten people who took the plunge. What happened could best be described as a stampede, though you don’t often see rampaging cattle doing cannonballs. This was the best picture I got as I avoided a trampling:

Phil wasn’t at the welcome party last year because he was still playing in the World Series of Poker-Europe, so it stands to

Sorry for cutting the highly talented UltimateBet blog dudes off at such a dramatic moment, but you can read the rest of Monday’s post - and view the stampede pictures - at the UltimateBet blog.

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Popular pages in August at Golden Rule Of Gambling & Golden Rule Of Poker :

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