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...
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 
flintsword
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12-10-2011 09:09
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