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Jonathan Duhamel Wins 2010 World Series of
JPoker Main Event Championship
onathan Duhamel, a 23-year-old poker pro from Boucherville, Quebec became the rst Canadian citizen in
history to win poker’s world championship. Duhamel collected a whopping $8,944,310 in prize money. He was also presented with the widely-cherished and universally- revered gold and diamond-encrusted gold bracelet, representing the game’s sterling achievement. e triumph was both a mental and physical marathon. Duhamel overcame a huge eld of 7,319 entrants who entered what was the second-largest WSOP Main Event in history.
e No-Limit Hold’em tournament
began on July 5th, and took more than four
months to complete, including the customary recess prior to the November Nine. Duhamel’s route to victory was a determined one, albeit peppered with a few unwanted detours. Stage two of the November Nine’s grand nale was played on the main stage inside the Penn and Teller eater at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. As the Canadian champion, Duhamel was only the sixth non-American to ever win the WSOP Main Event. For more information about the WSOP, go to wsop.com.
Valley View Casino & Hotel Guests Keep Their Eye on the Prize
Jonathan Duhamel, surrounded by his fans, is the rst Canadian to win the WSOP World Championship No-Limit Hold'em Main Event.
Barona BadBeat
Blackjack Jackpot Hits WTwice in One Week
ouldn’t it be great to get paid for getting beat? Two lucky Barona Resort & Casino players won big in the same week and you could be
next! Danillo M. won $53,151 and Mark F. won $32,060 playing Barona’s exclusive BadBeat Blackjack Progressive by making the optional BadBeat wager on one of Barona’s Blackjack tables. Every time the dealer beats your 20 with a 21, you get paid. e more cards it takes the dealer, the more you get paid. And it wouldn’t be a Barona Progressive unless they included the Magic Card. at’s right,“Getting Beat Gets You Paid” only at Barona Resort & Casino.
alley View Casino & Hotel recently brought a whole Players Club card inserted into the machine to be eligible to new meaning to the phrase “keeping your eye on the win. e new display is meant to bring awareness to the fact that prize,” when they placed $1,000,000 cash in the middle unlike most other casinos, Valley View awards its Colossal Coin
of the casino. To promote the exclusive $1,000,000 Colossal Coin jackpot, Valley View recently unveiled a huge pile of cash, bundled into 100 stacks of $10,000 and placed it inside a clear display case that is located just steps inside the casino entrance.
e cash will be a permanent feature that guests are welcome to take a photo with, ogle at, and fantasize about one day winning the gigantic prize.
e Colossal Coin jackpot is Valley View Casino & Hotel’s exclusive in-house mystery progressive that can award guests as much as $1,000,000 just for using their Players Club card. e Colossal Coin jackpot can hit any time on any one of Valley
View’s 2000 slot machines. e guest simply needs to have their
jackpot in one lump sum—not an annuity—which means that a guest could actually walk away with up to $1,000,000 in cash.
To date, Valley View Casino & Hotel has given away over $7.5 million in the Colossal Coin jackpot. e largest jackpot, $172,724 was awarded in February of this year to June Wickham of Cherry Valley, CA.
“Our Colossal Coin jackpot is real, life-changing money,” said
Bruce Howard, General Manager at Valley View Casino & Hotel. “Someone could literally walk away from our casino with as much as a million dollars in cash! Right at this moment Colossal Coin is at an all time high—over $470,000—and it keeps growing!”
Celebrity Chef Martin Yan Celebrates Opening of JOY Asian Cuisine at
HFantasy Springs Resort Casino
e’s known around the world as“Yan Can Cook” and for one very special night, celebrity chef Martin Yan, plus many other notable
guests, celebrated a culturally signi cant grand
opening in the Palm Springs area. November 9th marked the grand opening celebration of the newest restaurant at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino, JOY Asian Cuisine. is, however, was no ordinary grand opening with a simple champagne toast. A traditional Chinese lion dance wended its noisy way from the resort’s valet area and through the casino oor. Chef Yan followed the lion dancers, passing out gold chocolate coins and taking photos with guests along the way. Spectators watched a ceremonial ribbon cutting by dignitaries and members of the Cabazon Band of Mission
Indians and a gift exchange. Recognizing that JOY is the rst dining establishment in the Palm Springs area to infuse direct-from-Asia cuisine into its menu, Chef Martin Yan and actor George Cheung took time out of their busy schedules to help celebrate the
restaurant’s grand opening.
JOY Asian Cuisine is now open seven days a week from
11 a.m. to 12 a.m. Guests can experience the creations of Chef de Cuisine, Dayu Zhang from Jilin, China. e extensive menu presents options from China, Korea, Vietnam and ailand with many seafood and vegetarian options available. JOY is located just inside of the casino valet entrance.
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