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• Isle tournament series includes $1 million guarantee event

  The price of poker keeps going up. The Isle Casino & Racing's Florida State Poker Championships start July 7, and the July 29 main event carries a $1 million guarantee.

  "We're thinking the World Series of Poker will be wrapping up, and poker will be at forefront," Isle Director of Poker' [...]

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• Magic City starting 'hot table 100' promotion

  The Magic City Casino Poker Room will have "the hot table 100" each Saturday beginning July 2.

  Four times a day the casino will pick a "hot table" and deal out a five-card stud hand at the table. The winner of the hand then spins a wheel, which has notches [...]

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• Fantasy 5 ticket worth $92K sold in Plantation about to expire

  A Fantasy 5 lottery ticket sold in Plantation, worth $92,688.55, remains unclaimed, and the 180-day limit to claim the top prize expires at midnight June 29.

  The winning numbers for the Dec. 31, 2010, drawing were: 07-12-24-31-35.

  The winning ticket was sold at Publix, located at 225 S. Flamingo Road in Plantation. [...]

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• Isle has free-roll -- for Twitter followers

  The Isle Casino & Racing in Pompano Beach is trying to bump up its Twitter traffic -- and is offering entry into a free poker tournament to do so.

  They're running weekly tournaments offering $500 in prize money, but you gotta register via Twitter in advance.

  The tournaments began June 11 and' [...]

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• Another Gulfstream Park CEO (Steve Calabro) leaves

  Gulfstream president and general manager Steve Calabro has resigned, continuing the high turnover rate for top management of the Hallandale Beach horse track and casino.

  Calabro is the fifth president/GM to leave Gulfstream Park Racing & Casino in the past six years.

  Frank Stronach bought Gulfstream in 1999, hiring Scott [...]

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• Comments feature is back, but slower

  So if you've tried to comment on this blog or any other in recent days, it's frustrating to not see it go up immediately. We've been hit by a spam attack so grand that the techies had to shut off the comments feature.

  It's back, but your comment now gets kicked [...]

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• Lottery: Powerball, Lotto roll over; Fantasy 5 hits in Deerfield Beach

  Powerball and Florida Lotto were rollovers Wednesday night, but Fantasy 5 hit five times -- including in Deerfield Beach -- each paying out 45,720.28.

  The Fantasy 5 numbers were: 1-7-11-12-17. One winning ticket was sold at Publix, 1337 South Military Trail, Deerfield Beach It also hit in Fort Myers, [...]

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• Hard Rock has Omaha free-roll tournament

  South Florida poker rooms repeatedly steer players toward games other than Texas Hold 'em, but the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood is actually putting money behind it.

  Players who have logged at least 30 hours' play of Omaha 8 or Better before Tuesday will be eligible to play [...]

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• Video: Face of Classic application process under way

  

  
  

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• Rousso to conduct poker instruction camp in Las Vegas

  Vanessa Rousso, of Hobe Sound, is conducting a poker instruction camp from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 7 at the Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.

  The camp is designed to help those entering the World Series of Poker main event. The main event has four Day 1s, with [...]

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