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The Eglinton Card Room and Casino saw the cards in the air for the first stop on this year's Party poker Irish poker Championship Tour. There will be seven more stops in Ireland to celebrate the events, and players still have a chance to qualify at the online site that sponsors the events, Party poker. The first stop on the tour featured a lot of big name poker players, such as Marcel 'the Flying Dutchman' Luske, Jon Kalmar, Padraig Parkinson, Noel Furlong, and Mike Sexton...

Online poker room Bodog poker wants to send a bit of their Bodog Life to London this September, giving away a slew of seats to the second annual World Series of poker Europe, trying to get the honor of having the winner of the WSOPE be a Bodog player. Last year's champ Annette Obrestad was signed by a rival poker room, and now many online rooms are scrambling to get a lock on the next champion. Players can visit Bodog and play in satellites for as little as one dollar to win a VIP Prize Package valued at $24,000.Related Articles:Online poker room sending players to AfricaPacific poker Open V qualifiers...

Ten cashes in a single year of the World Series of poker is a new record, one set during this year's WSOP by Nikolay Evdakov, and it looks like the online poker community is ready to capitalize. Evdakov was recently signed by online poker room Full Tilt poker. Many poker players are curious about the signing of Evdakov - certainly ten cashes in a single WSOP is impressive, but in all ten events he missed making the final table...

There are many poker rooms in the greater Reno area, which includes Carson City and Lake Tahoe to the south and Sparks to the east. I played in 21 of them over a one-week span. I really enjoyed myself in this beautiful part...

International News: TWC keeps film's production in Thailand -- The Weinstein Co. said Saturday that its decision to shift production of 'Shanghai' to Thailand after failing to receive permission to lense in China was based on the need to ground the production in Asia.

International News: Author was a Nobel Prize winner -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose books chronicled the horrors of the Soviet gulag system, has died of heart failure. He was 89.

International News: 'Battleship' to relaunch 25 years later -- Iconic sci-fi toon series 'Space Battleship Yamato' is about to relaunch 25 years after the last installment was seen, according to producer Yoshinobu Nishizaki, who made the original 'Yamato' TV show and four feature toons.

Hancock fell 56% to $20.22 million on 7516 screens in 70 markets, however, that was still enough for second place on the international chart this week, and lifted its totals to $295.58 million internationally and $502.06 million worldwide, reaching a major milestone. The film's best market of the week was Spain where it remained in first place with $3.98 million on 575 screens for a total of $16.86 million. It is also performing well in Germany where it held on to second place with $1.70 million on 755 screens over the weekend and $33.62 million after four. However, it is starting to slip in the U.K. falling to fifth place with $1.40 million on 400 screens, but its total of $45.15 million in that market is still fantastic. Hancock likely hit $300 million early last week, and it has yet to open in Japan and Italy.

The Rhode Island international Film Festival may be a little far afield of Boston, but it always offers an impressive lineup and earns its spotlight each year. Opening on Tuesday, the six-day program this year includes 289 movies selected from 3,000 submissions - 33 feature narratives, 67 documentaries, and nearly 60 world premieres. That's a whole lotta movie.

Macau.com is the official travel agency for the 4th international Hotel Equipment & Supplies Expo. (PRWeb Aug 3, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/macau-events/macau-hotel-expo/prweb1169514.htm