FullTiltPoker.net, one of the foremost free, online poker sites leads the way in, live televised poker. FSN, the premier network in poker television and the first U.S. network to show poker live; the night club La Bete at Wynn Las Vegas, the newest luxury resort on the strip; FullTiltPoker.net, the best free online poker site, with the most world renown pros: A trio of excellence each playing its part in bringing fans an unrivaled live television event as FSN televises the final table of the FULLTILTPOKER.NET CHAMPIONSHIP AT WYNN LAS VEGAS, airing live at 6:00 pm local on Wed., July 13, 2005.

Scheduled to appear in the tournament are 2000 World Series of Poker champion Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, WSOP bracelet winners, Phil Ivey, John Juanda, Erik Seidel, Jennifer Harman, 2003 World Poker Tour Ladies Night winner Clonie Gowen, plus poker pros Phil Gordon, Andy Bloch and Erick Lindgren. Also, 2004 Card Player Magazine Player of the Year Daniel Negreanu, Poker Ambassador to Wynn Las Vegas joins the fray...

Playing in one of the largest online celebrity poker tournaments ever, with 33 confirmed celebrity players, Bob Goen went all in to take the top celebrity prize in Hollywood Poker's World Series of Poker (WSOP) Celebrity Shootout Tournament. Goen received a World Series of Poker package valued at over $15,000. The event held on June 18, 2005 at 11:00 a.m. PDT was accessible for the public to play with their favorite stars or watch as spectators.

Other celebrities that played in the tournament, in order of how they placed following Bob Goen, included Nicholas Gonzalez, Jon Landau, Seth Meyers, Anthony Denison, Krista Allen, Dick Van Patten, Noah Emmerich, Joshua Morrow, Yancey Arias, Michael Kane, Chris Lawford, Bill Smitrovich, Jeremy London, Erik Palladino, Jimmy Van Patten, Tony Griffin, Michael Woods, Eddie Cibrian, Willie Garson, Josh Malina, Michael Ian Black, Stephen Collins...

As soon as Michael Jackson had dead-panned his way out of the courthouse and into Michael Force One, the black SUV that would transport the ghostly white Jackson to his Neverland ranch, the cell phone in the lavishly appointed vehicle began to ring. Thinking it might be Jesse Jackson calling to ask Jackson to join him in a prayer of thanksgiving, Jackson told his driver, Marcus Jackson, to pick up.

"Dude on the line says he's Donald Trump, boss," said Jackson.

"What does he want," asked Jackson flatly.

"Says he wants to swap houses with you," said Jackson. "Says you can take Mirror Leggo and he'll take the ranch"...

The timing could not have been better--at least for Europe's travel industry. Just in time for the kickoff of the summer holiday season, the failed bids in France and Holland to ratify the European Union's constitution last week have pushed the euro to its lowest point against the dollar since last October.

Translation? For Americans considering traveling abroad this summer, Europe, even at a luxury level, is suddenly looking like a pretty good deal.

Consider the price for one night at the Hotel Ritz in Paris. If you had stayed in that famously luxurious hotel's least expensive room last Dec. 31...

He hasn't spoken since his acquittal on child-molestation charges, but Michael Jackson might sing about his freedom at an invitation-only party on Saturday at the Chumash Casino in Santa Ynez, California.

Jackson's family is planning the party to thank fans who supported the singer throughout his trial, and plans appear to be geared toward an event that will feature some kind of performance, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. Some of the fans who held vigil outside the Santa Maria courthouse and other selected supporters should be getting word about their invitations on Friday (June 17)...

Even the title is evocative: "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" calls to mind a classic Hollywood star vehicle of the past, perhaps even the identically named 1941 movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock. In that picture, two stars of the era, Robert Montgomery and Carole Lombard, played a "squabbling Punch and Judy," according to The New York Times' review. Today's Mr. and Mrs. Smith, played by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie - as everyone within range of a billboard or bus stop must know by now - are still squabbling. But now they are hired killers, working for rival companies, who set out to assassinate each other.

Almost in spite of itself, the new movie remains a romantic comedy in the tradition that Hitchcock, Howard Hawks and Frank Capra perfected more than half a century ago...

Eliot Jacobson is an advantage player, one of the few casino gamblers who consistently wins. He has been kicked out of some of the best casinos in Las Vegas, sometimes nicely, sometimes not so nicely. Jacobson believes every player can beat the casinos fair and square at their own games. He wrote his new book, The Blackjack Zone, to help individual players beat the casinos at blackjack.

“I can’t promise that you can become a winner overnight because the process of becoming a winner is the same in blackjack as in any other sport or game: it takes study, practice and discipline,” Jacobson says. “My goal is to shift the odds to the player and make him a winner over his lifetime of play”...

An experienced gambler will place a wager on almost anything. An online casino have realized about this and is getting bets on the outcome of all sorts of events.

Hollywood celebrities are know in the eye of these kind of online casino bets.

You can bet on:

If Paris Hilton and Paris Latsis, will get married in 2005

The site warns: "Any wagers placed after outcome becomes public knowledge will be graded as No Action. Marriage must be held before 12/31/05"

You can also bet on: If Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, will get engaged in 2005...

A professional gambler has filed suit against Green Valley Ranch Station Casino, claiming that he has been banned from other casinos and gambling tournaments because he was depicted as a cheat on a reality show profiling the Henderson property.

Joseph Pane, a retired Brooklyn cop who travels the country playing blackjack tournaments, filed suit in Clark County District Court April 6 seeking "profits connected with the airing of his likeness as well as punitive damages."

The suit centers on a particular episode of the Discovery Channel series "American Casino" that depicted a high-end blackjack tournament at Green Valley Ranch. In an interview about the suit, Pane said he participated in another blackjack tournament...

These kind of events are only available for wagering via the Internet. The website warns they bettors: "Any wagers placed after the outcome has become public knowledge will be graded as No Action. No Refunds. Results as reported by Variety will be used as official. Weekend consists of ticket sales Friday to Sunday."

The candidates are: Batman Begins, War of the Worlds, The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl in 3-D, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Mr. and Mrs.Smith, Cinderella Man, The Island, The Dukes of Hazzard, Fantasic Four, The Wedding Crashers and Duece Bigalow: European Gigolo...