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RED HOT POKER—Sycuan Resort & Casino Debuts New
DWorld Poker Tour® All-In Hold ’Em’TM
oesn’t take much to know the latest gaming craze from kitchens to casinos is red hot poker!
Every week millions of viewers watch TV coverage of No Limit Hold ’Em poker on the World Poker Tour, Celebrity Poker tournaments, and ESPN’s rebroadcasts of the World
Series of Poker. All have created an amazing surge in the popularity of live action card rooms.
On May 22nd Sycuan Resort and Casino became the rst gaming venue to debut the new World Poker Tour® (WPT) All-In Hold ’EmTM table game. WPT All-In Hold
’Em was developed by Lakes Entertainment, Inc. through a license arrangement
bluffing for a big win. Like the No Limit Texas Hold ’Em poker played on the World Poker Tour, the WPT All-In Hold ’Em table game “takes a minute to learn for a lifetime of action,” to quote WPT commentator
an optional bonus bet on the hole cards. For example, two red aces pays 50 to 1, while a pair of deuces pays 2 to 1.
Once players have seen the hole cards, a player can fold, raise the blind ante by betting five times or even ten times the ante bet (placed in two easily visible marked circles in front of each player.) Then the action turns to the dealer, who will fold and pay off the player’s ante bets, or call. If the dealer qualifies to play on (based on specific rules), the play continues with the flop, turn and the river. If the player’s best five-card poker hand beats the dealer’s, the player wins his ante and the raise bets.
with World Poker Tour, LLC, the entertainment and media company that lms and produces the World Poker Tour television series currently shown on Travel Channel.
WPT All-In Hold ’Em allows poker fans to experience the same kind of excitement that they have seen on their
“WPT All-In Hold ’Em allows poker fans to experience the same kind of excitement that they have seen on their television
Mike Sexton. WPT All-In Hold ’Em is distinctive, however, in that players only play against the dealer rather than against the other players at the table.
In “WPT sets.Playerscanstrategizetheir All-In Hold
television sets. Players can strategize their betting and experience the rush of making an “all-in” raise or
ticket into the game. Then players have other betting options, including
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betting and experience the rush of making an “all-in” raise or bluffing for a big win.”
’Em” players are required to bet the blind ante on every hand. That’s the