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December 2012 Gaming News (Continued)
LAucky 12-12-12 and 12-21-12
ccording to the Maya, December 2012 will mark the end of the 5,126-year Mayan calendar, and like many superstitions, the purported dates have become reasons for casinos to infuse the days with fun and luck- lled events. Casino players can be superstitious by nature, and,
after all, 12-12-12 is the last of the alliteration calendar dates for the next 100 years. Depending on what you read and how you interpret, the Maya prophesied the last day could be either 12-12-12 or 12-21-12. In fact, December 21st is the Winter Solstice — the shortest day and longest night of the year. But read on for some of Southern California’s fantastic featured casinos’ 12-12-12 and 12-21-12 lucky giveaways. We think you’ll have a chance to spend your winnings in the future.
On December 12th, Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa Paradise Rewards Club members will receive one free electronic drawing entry for the 12.12.12 Fortune $1,200 Giveaway, where 12 lucky guests will win $1,200 in a lucky drawing. VIP participants will receive an invitation to participate in the Fortune $1,200 Giveaway and they will receive an additional 12 electronic drawing tickets. Beginning at noon, VIP guests will have a chance to earn 1,200 points and get their choice of a Lucky Charm Bracelet or Lucky Money Clip, while supplies last. Guests can activate their entries beginning at 7 p.m. Drawings will occur every 12 minutes from 8 p.m. to 10:12 p.m. for a total of 12 winners. Winners of each drawing will receive $1,200 in Paradise Cash Play.
And at Valley View Casino & Hotel, don’t miss Dave Mason’s Great Big Holiday Giveaway, where you could win $250,000
this holiday season. On Wednesday, December12th from1p.m.to10p.m.,
cash, iPads, tvs, and other great prizes will be given away every
30 minutes, and anyone can win. en, at 10 p.m., you could be one of nine lucky winners who will have the chance to
pull three envelopes from the Great Big Holiday Giveaway gameboard. If the sum of the dollar amounts enclosed in your envelopes adds up to $1,000, you win $250,000! at would be pretty good luck on 12-12-12.
At Fantasy Springs Resort Casino, on Wednesday, December 12th, the 12-12-12 Celebration Giveaway o ers guests who earn 12 points (coin-in $120) eligible for this promotion. Twelve names will be drawn every hour between 11 a.m. and 10 p.m. to win $120 in free slot play. Guests may win more than once. (Free slot play will expire seven days after being awarded.) And on Friday,
December 21st, check out The Last Great Drawing: Are The Mayans Right? where guests can swipe at the kiosk to earn a free entry. One name will be drawn every half hour from 6:30 p.m. to 12:01 a.m. and will win $1,221 in cash. Guests may win only
one half hourly cash drawing. At 12:21 a.m. all guests will then be eligible for the grandprizedrawing—$12,210incash! And at Sycuan Casino, the world may be ending, but they’re going to Party Like There’s
No To-Maya! On Friday, December 21st, from 6 p.m. to midnight, Sycuan will choose
ve winners every hour to split $1,500. And at midnight, 5 lucky winners will take home their share of $10,000. See Club Sycuan for details. With beads, hats and candies for all players, Sycuan is the place to party! And for Sycuan Bingo players, don’t miss the 12-12-12 Matinee Session where Bingo on B12 or any number ending in 1 or 2 wins
an extra $200. Multiple winners split the extra payout. And in the Evening Session on 12-12-12 , Bingo on B12 wins $100,000! If the jackpot is not hit, Bingo on any number ending in 1 or 2 wins an extra $1,200. During all Regular Games Bingo on any number ending in 1 or 2 wins an extra $120.
Greg Merson Wins $8.5 Million in World Series of Poker® Main Event
reg Merson, 24, of Laurel, Maryland is the 2012 champion of the World Series of Poker® Main Event, earning $8,531,853. Merson was crowned after almost 12 hours of play on Tuesday night, October 30th, and early Wednesday morning, October 31st at the Penn & Teller
Theater of the Rio Las Vegas. e victory came at 5:35 a.m., after 16 hands of heads-up play between Merson and Jesse Sylvia, who splits his time between Las Vegas and Martha’s Vineyard. Sylvia earned $5,295,249.
Merson, who entered play as the chip leader, won with a king-high. He entered heads-up action with a signi cant chip lead. It took almost 11 hours and some 250 hands of three-handed No Limit Hold’em Poker to eliminate the third place nisher, Jake Balsiger of Tempe, Arizona, who earned $3,799,073.
e 2012 $10,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em World Championship, began in July with a total of 6,598 entrants. e event’s total prize pool was $62,031,385, with more than $27 million going to the nal nine players. A total of 666 entrants cashed in the event.
e 2012 World Series of Poker attracted 74,766 participants in 61 events, generating a prize pool of more than $222 million, the largest prize pool in the tournament’s 43-year history.
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