North America News - Page 485

Steve Vai, Zakk Wylde, Yngwie Malmsteen, Nuno Bettencourt and Tosin Abisi once again will join together to tour North America, making a stop at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino - Las Vegas on Friday, 9 November.

The first event in the series, WSOE 1, will take place this fall at the PokerGO Studio at Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas where the first ever WSOE Champion will be crowned.

Due to last night's impromptu ending, caused by a power outage, 109 players will return to play the 1 hour and 23 minutes left in Level 26 that got cut short.

Beer Park at Paris Las Vegas will honor National Hot Dog Day by offering guests a complimentary sausage with the purchase of a brewery-fresh beer on Wednesday, 18 July.

Caesar Entertainment Las Vegas Resorts all-new Fortune Pai Gow Poker Progressive jackpot of $1,428,739.11 hit for one lucky guests on Saturday, 30 June at Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino.

The Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino took a hard hit from the storm. Power died in the event center and emergency lighting activated about an hour before players were scheduled to bag.

The venture, slated for a fall 2019 opening, adds hotel rooms, gaming space, dining and nightlife outlets and much more at the Florida resort and casino.

The Grammy Award-winning icons the Commodores will perform their R&B and funk hits at The Event Center at the Philadelphia casino on Friday, 12 October, at 8 p.m.

Gary Platt won an exclusive contract at the new property and provided its Monaco and Lido Revo models.

Barry Hutter has the lead with 5,597,000, with Brian Altman sitting third with 4,861,000. Alexander Haro sits between them with 5,031,000.

Chef Fabio Viviani will host two cooking classes 12 and 13 August at the award-winning Portico by Fabio Viviani, his restaurant inside the New York resort and casino.

With the summer sailing along, we have another busy week of stories from the gambling world. As mentioned last week, Casino City was on scene for the grand openings of two Atlantic City casinos.

A total of 2,460 players walked through the door at the beginning of the day, but only 1,131 will be moving on to Day 3. Leading the way is Shawn Daniels, who bagged up a whopping 532,500 chips.

In addition to Operator of the Year, the Atlantic City casino's wins at the EGR North America 2018 awards included Casino Operator of the Year, Best Product Innovation and Acquisition Strategy.

The 4,571 runners who came out for Day 1C made it the biggest single flight in the history of the WSOP since organizers began divvying up the field into more than one starting day.

Newton Vineyard, the venerable St. Helena winery, will host a five-course dinner and wine pairing at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, 27 September, in the underground wine cave at Pala Casino Spa and Resort.

The California casino will host a Paint and Sip art event from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., Saturday, 4 August, in the underground wine cave.

The Atlantic City casino boasts a game floor with 2,200 slots and 120 table games, in addition to more than 20 concept-based restaurants, lounges and premier entertainment venues.

Starting Friday 6 July, play from 10 a.m.-10 p.m. at the California casino for 7x points on slots, keno and video poker.

The milestone performance was attended by a full house of enthusiastic audience members who joined the “America’s Got Talent” Season Nine winner for a photograph to commemorate the occasion.