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Tropicana Las Vegas Announces Launch of Jamie Gold Poker Room

Jamie Gold

First, we saw the opening of Bobby's Room in the Bellagio, named after 1978 World Series of Poker champion Bobby Baldwin. Then, eight-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Ivey was honored with his own namesake poker room at Aria.

Now, Tropicana Las Vegas has named its newly renovated poker room The Jamie Gold Poker Room. The 2006 WSOP Main Event champ will serve as the Tropicana's poker spokesperson and ambassador, and he will make daily appearances until the poker room’s mid-January official launch and then on a monthly schedule thereafter.

“This deal with Tropicana covers everything I could have ever wanted in a relationship with a major Las Vegas Strip resort and it will serve as my anchor and the conduit to all of my future poker and philanthropic endeavors,” Gold said. “I really couldn’t be more excited!”

Gold won $12 million for his victory at the 2006 World Series of Poker. His career has been marred by a bit of controversy, but Gold has since been very active in raising money for organizations such as the United Nations and Global Creative Forum. In 2011, he signed with Poker Players International (PPI) and moved forward with a number of business ventures including www.jamiegold.com and www.freegoldpoker.com.

“We’re thrilled to welcome Jamie to the Tropicana family,” stated Melissa Steinberg, vice president of entertainment and casino operations at Tropicana Las Vegas. “This new poker room is sure to not only create unique and memorable gaming experiences for our guests, but will also give them the opportunity of a lifetime to play with one of the most iconic poker players of our time.”

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  • flintsword flintsword

    Smart marketing move at the right time when quite a few poker players that play at the Venetian poker room will be looking for temporary new places to play as they walk with their feet over Chairman Adelson's inane comments against poker. It is bad enough there are idiots in the US DOJ that are anti-poker, but to have the owner of a major gambling empire that makes plenty thank you very much off poker going on the record that he is against poker is stupid. The context of the anti-poker comments was on underage gambling but everyone knows that any (& I do mean any) regulations that come down from State or Federal governments will as a matter of course have very strict controls to stop underage gambling. Adelson knows this yet uses the subject to bash poker.

    Check out the new Jamie Gold room, it should be full of fishy players ... hehehe ... even when Jamie Gold is there ... hehehe. <== This is intended to be humerous, not insulting Wink

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