November 19th, 2009
Since a while, a project has been tossed up to power the Caesar Windsor casino. It was a dedicated energy plant. So far, it has cost taxpayers $81millions dollars. And we just learned it might be worth nothing ! According to a report. The initial price tag was to be 40 million dollars. The construction so far has gone well.
The plant was built by the OLG (Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation). They are the Ontario regulator for gambling and lotteries. They built the energy center in order to ensure sufficient power to the Caesars Windsor casino. The latest one having gone through a massive expansion over the last years.
Then on Nov. 21, 2008, a report from Cole Valuation Partners said that “under all scenarios, the [net present value] is well below the cost of the Energy Centre of more than $80 million.” While the report explicitly states it is not intended to be a final valuation of the project, it is billed as a “preliminary financial analysis.” It appraises the value of the facility under a number of scenarios based on differing returns from the sale of energy to the casino and to the provincial power grid.
It finds out that the energy center would fetch at most 21 millions dollars if sold in the private market. And in the worst case scenario: it would be worthless.
The Caesar Windsor casino is located in Windsor, Canada. It has lots of slots machines, including Monopoly-related ones !
The Poker Room is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and is located on the second floor. There are 14 tables offering Texas Hold’em, Omaha and Seven Card Stud. Table limits vary, starting from $3 to $6 (CAD) up to unlimited amounts. This room offers a cashier cage and cocktail service.
Some features: World Series of Poker (25,000 dollars guaranteed pool), Ladies only poker tournament, and more.
Table slots include the : Canadian Club Salon . This luxurious venue offers opulent surroundings for Blackjack, Roulette, Baccarat, Mini-Baccarat and Pai Gow Poker including a private redemption window. And the High Limit Slots : it includes more than 200 slot machines ranging from $2 to $100 (CAD) per play.
Gaming sports betting is allowed: sports included in Game Picks are American Professional Football, North American Professional Hockey, Pro Baseball, American college football and basketball.
The casino has hotel, dining places, pool, nightlife and shopping places !
So the OLG originally hired Buttcon Energy Inc. to design, build and operate the plant, but Buttcon filed a $355-million lawsuit in September against the OLG, alleging breach of contract, deceit and misrepresentation.
Buttcon has now stopped operation of the plant. The province has hired Angus Consulting Management Ltd. to operate it temporarily.
The government has said it is now searching for a permanent operator, and that contract will be open to competitive bids.
September 20th, 2009
Upcoming this Saturday September 26th, the River Cree Marriot Resort and Casino will hold the Black and White Celebrity Poker Safari.
This tournament is sponsored by the Zebra center. This center is located in Edmonton, Canada. It is the first centre of its kind in Canada. It enables the community to respond to child abuse with a professional, compassionate and highly integrated program of healing and justice. The Zebra Centre brings together a multi-disciplinary community of professionals : Edmonton Police Service, Alberta Children’s Services, Crown Prosecutors, Child at Risk Response Teams, medical and trauma screening professionals and volunteer Child and Family Advocates. All of them into an environment that nurtures the hurt child and uses all the wisdom of its partnership to see that justice is done.
The tournament will begin at 3pm. The entry cost is 500 Canadian dollars per couples. Like said before, all the profits will go toward the Zebra Center. This includes an afternoon of playing cards with some local celebrities followed at 6pm by cocktails, comedy and the dinner at 7 pm for two.
The River Cree Casino is located in Edmonton, Canada. It has more than 35 game tables on the casino floor. One can find the Roulette, Blackjack, Craps, Baccarat plus many other exciting games.
Over 800 slot machines can be found in the casino with a variety of games.
The poker room has 12 tables offering a number of cash and tournament events. Besides the Black and White Celebrity Poker Safari, some of the events include:
- Monday Madness: Monday nights at 7:30 PM. Player Point Re-buy Tournament Conditional Unlimited $10 re-buys in the first hour and a $10 Add-On at the break.
- Edmonton Poker League: the EPL (Edmonton Poker League) is opened to anyone! On the third Sunday of the month, register for the league in the room on the day of the event and enjoy multi-table, NLTH action !
- Enoch Open Poker Classic – Every second Wednesday evening at 7:30 PM, this NLTH tournament features a $175 + $10 buy-in for 13500 chips. You also have the option of purchasing a $10 add-on from the organizers for another 1500 in chips. $20 of each buy-in goes towards a grand prize poker trip package. The Enoch Open also features a full re-buy-in if you’re knocked out in the first four rounds of action.
- Guaranteed Prize Pool Series VIII – Daily cash tournaments to qualify for the Series Final on September 27, 2009. Earn points through tournament series play, and sign up with the Houseman to earn points for cash play time. The final will feature 40 minute rounds and as many chips as you can qualify for through the series. The Guaranteed prize pool is $30,000 again. Now the winners of the finals are going to be playing for a trip to the WSOP Main Event.
The casino has a lot more to offer: hotel, restaurants, nightlife !
Be sure to take part in one of those events !
August 13th, 2009
The first tournament for the Canada Poker Tournament League (CPTL) will start on the first of October 2009. It will be held in the Maritime Provinces. For their first season, total prizes will be $500,000 in cash besides prizes like trips to the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas.
The Quebec Poker Tournament League (QCPTL) was launched October 2007 in the province of Quebec. This league has more than 25,000 members and already had more then 250 events. This league was born from a partnership between the Corporation des Propriétaires de Bars, Brasseries et Tavernes du Québec (CPBBTQ), l’Association des Joueurs de Tournois de Poker du Québec (AJTPQ) and Gestion Poker Tour.
Gestion Poker is a company organizing poker events in the province of Quebec.
The QCPTL is a totally free poker tournament league. Anyone, aged over 18, do have a chance to enjoy themselves at poker play while learning the basics of the game. Doing such result for those with proper skills to get very good earnings.
The QCPTL has a policy to give out at least $250,000 in prizes, even as early as the first year.
The QCPTL has a network all over the provice of Quebec in more then 125 districts. Those establishments bring a lot of Hold’Em Poker players.
Lots of tournaments are possible. Ranging from daily, monthly, mega, celebrity, venue and more types of tournaments. There are also championships.
As an example, the Quebec Poker Championship is to grab the title of Quebec’s Champion. The winner will get all expenses paid entry for a major tournament throughout the world. Many other prizes are available for the other players.
Thus Gestion Poker Tour will launch a legal and highly competitive free poker circuit in October 2009 in each of the Canadian Maritime Provinces.
Players can already enjoy such events in Caraquet, St-Leornard, Tracadie-Sheila, Kedgwick and soon, Edmundston.
The medias are invited to be part of the official launch tour of the provincial leagues in the Maritimes. This tour will be part of the CNPTL (Canada Poker Tournament League).
Information sessions, for the venues, will be held in the morning at 10:30am while information sessions, for the players, will be held at 1pm.
Those prosent at the launch will include France Lajoie, Pierre Martel and André Boyer. The latest one being holder of a prestigious WSOP bracelet. All those people will be there to meet you and to answer any of your questions.
A random selection of 10 people, including those amongst the medias, in the afternoon will take place. The winners will play a tournament where the main winner will face the world champion, André Boyer, in a heads-up match. That lucky winner will also receive as prize an unique poker table with accessories.
The cities and dates where those different sessions will be played are:
- August 18th, Bathurst
- August 19th, Moncton
- August 20th, Charlottetown
- August 21st, St-John’s
- August 24th, Halifax
Feel free to check the QCPTL website for more informations.
June 24th, 2008
Vega Promotional Systems, Inc. (VGPR.PK) today announced it has narrowed the list of stops for the inaugural season of the Poker Tour of the Americas (PTA) to six cities.As a result of increased interest from cities in North and South America, Vega’s plan is to hold six tournaments during the Tour’s first year, with plans to expand to Tour to eight stops in season two.
The season one plan includes tournaments in the following cities:
Vancouver, British Columbia
Tunica, Mississippi
San Jose, Costa Rica
Cartagena, Colombia
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Quito, Ecuador
The location of the season ending Poker Tournament of Champions to crown the champion of the PTA will be announced in the next few weeks.
In addition to promoting the PTA, Vega will be the Executive Producer of the video programming and plans to air the tournaments throughout North and South America. Since Vega will own the programming, the Company is currently negotiating for network airtime that would in turn, allow the Company to sell its own advertising for the programs.
The poker tournaments will be structured as invitational events with players from all over the world able to win seats via online and live local satellite tournaments.
Michael Herron, CEO of Vega stated, “This Tour will introduce the top players in the world to new audiences in South America as well as give local players the opportunity to play against poker’s best players. The response we have received from all over North and South America has been incredible. With the popularity that poker has achieved the past few years, this type of Tour makes a lot of sense. There are some very good poker players in South America and we look forward to finding the next big name. Our timing couldn’t be better. Poker is exploding in South America and Canada and combined with the popularity in the U.S., we feel the PTA will be a hit from day one.
We’ve all seen the success that other tours like the World Poker Tour and European Poker Tour have enjoyed and we feel that we can produce a first class tournament. Unlike a lot of poker programming you see on television, we are not attempting to sell the rights to a programmer, we will own the programming and will contract for the necessary time slots to air the one-hour shows. This will allow Vega to profit from the advertising, sponsorships, replays of the programming, and the tournament itself.”
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June 10th, 2008
Century Casinos, Inc. announced today that its Century Casino & Hotel in Edmonton, Canada, will host the 1st Annual Celebrity Poker Tournament in support of the MS (Multiple Sclerosis) Society of Alberta on June 14, 2008.This celebrity poker tournament will feature stars of Canada’s most popular TV show “Corner Gas”, namely Tara Spencer-Nairn and Lorne Cardinal. Other confirmed celebrities include former Edmonton Eskimo Football Great Singor Mobley, as well as Playboy model and WWE Diva Rochelle Loewen.
Local media will also be represented including CISN morning man Sean Burke along with local poker legend Sandra Sperounes from the Edmonton Journal, and Gene Principe from Sportsnet, the commentator of the world-famous hockey team, the Edmonton Oilers.
The tournament is limited to 77 entries and commences at 2:00 p.m. MDT on June 14 in Century Casino’s new 24 hour poker room. On the day of the tournament, a silent auction will be held from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. MDT to raise funds in support of the MS Society. In addition, a portion of the registration fees will be donated directly to the MS Society.
May 7th, 2008
WPT Canada (WPTC) tour kicks off today with its first stop—Coast to Coast Poker Championships, presented by British Columbia Lottery Corporation—at River Rock Casino Resort in Richmond, British Columbia. WPTC is the dedicated tour for Canada, a country where some of the world’s greatest poker professionals call home and poker is booming in best-in-class casino properties nationwide.
“Canada is an incredible destination for poker, which we have experienced first-hand during three successful Canadian events on the main WPT tour,” said Steve Lipscomb, WPT Founder, President and CEO. “The sport of poker has long been growing in Canada, fostering poker fans and creating world-class poker professionals. It was only a matter of time before WPT offered a tailored tour unique to Canadian poker fans, and couldn’t be more thrilled to finally launch it today.”
WPT-Canada May 5 – 13, 2008, the event features multiple tournament options including a super satellite, bounty event, and a $3,000 CDN main event where players will face pros like Gavin Smith, WPT Season IV Player of the Year; “Yukon” Brad Booth; and Canadian Poker Tour Player of the Year Jody Trainer. Antonio Esfandiari, face of the WPT Poker-Made Millionaire™ will also play in the bounty and main events, representing Worldpokertour.com. Esfandiari recently placed eighth out of 842 players at the European Poker Tour Grand Finals in Monte Carlo.
The May 11 Coast to Coast Poker Championships final tables will play down on the WPT Canada set and will be filmed for television broadcast in Canada. Poker pro Kenna James will make his WPT Canada debut as TV commentator alongside host and well-known Canadian sports announcer, Jim Van Horne. The WPT Canada Coast to Coast Poker Championships television episodes will debut in Canada late this summer.
April 25th, 2008
Glen Chorny, a 22-year-old business student from Ontario, Canada, won the biggest poker tournament ever held in Europe when he took down the EUR10,000 PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Grand Final for a first prize of over EUR2 million (US$3 million).
After only two hands against Hungarian Denes Kalo, Chorny - who won his seat online with PokerStars - took the EPT Champion title with A5 against KQ when his Ace paired on the flop. For 31-year-old stockbroker Kalo, who won EUR1,179,000, it was the second time this season that he has been an EPT runner-up: he came 2nd at EPT Baden last October.
Chorny’s triumph came only three months after he took 13th place at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure for US$80k. He said: “It was tough out there, like a hard day at the office. Only the rewards are a lot better.”
The EPT Grand Final attracted a record field of 842 players creating a total prize pool of over EUR8.4 million (US$12m): the richest prize pool in the world for a poker tournament this year.
Canadian Max Villemure, 19, from Montreal, finished 3rd. Isaac “westmenloAA” Baron - Cardplayer’s Online Player of the Year in 2007 - came 4th. Italian Luca Pagano, a Team PokerStars Pro, registered record ninth EPT cash after finishing 6th.
Among the other star names in Monte Carlo this week were Antonio “The Magician” Esfandiari (who came 8th for EUR168k), Patrick Antonius, Phil Ivey, Erick Lindgren, Freddy Deeb, Roland de Wolfe and Gus Hansen as well as almost all the Team PokerStars Pros including Daniel Negreanu, Joe Hachem (11th for EUR101,000), Greg Raymer, Chris Moneymaker, Vanessa Rousso and Lee Nelson.
Season 4 has taken in 11 amazing destinations including new events in Prague in the Czech Republic (555 players) and San Remo in Italy (701 players). The season has seen player numbers and prize pools soar, and also the number of nationalities taking part - 48 in Monte Carlo, more than 70 during the season as a whole.
EPTLive.com providing a live webcast of the action on the final two days - also saw record audience numbers.
The total prize money for season 4 of the EPT was over EUR38m, double the total for Season 3.
source: http://online.casinocity.com
April 14th, 2008
Poker goes coast to coast in the Great White North
A major new big buy-in land poker tournament for Canada is shaping up in the World Poker Tour’s just announced Coast to Coast Poker Championship, which will feature high stakes poker action in an East vs. West competition at the River Rock Casino Resort in Richmond, B.C, on May 5-13.
The British Columbia Lottery Corporation and WPT organisers anticipate that with Canada’s track record for producing top poker players the entry field will feature many top names in the game, ensuring a large entry field.
The Coast to Coast Poker Championship will feature a total of seven events with an anticipated 2 650 players taking part, generating a $2.4 million prize pool that will include a first place prize of $377 300.
Tournament events will include No-Limit Hold’em, Pot-Limit Hold’em and Omaha High/Low as well as a special events such as a bounty tournament and a Mother’s Day team tournament.
The Coast to Coast Poker Championships will be the first stop for WPT Canada and will be filmed to produce four one-hour episodes, which will air nationally in Canada.
