This could be the year that Mike Sexton gets to take home a World Poker Tour title. Sexton made it to the play down day in the WPT Borgata Poker Open. Out of the 27 remaining players, Sexton managed to have the 19th largest stack. There are so many players eyeing the top spot with a prize of $733,000. Even if they don’t get first place, every player left on the field can take home $15,000.

The current champion, Olivier “livb112” Busquet, survived the third day of the Borgata Poker Open. However, he was knocked out on Wednesday Morning. He took 25th place and received $15,000. Last year, Busquet bagged the $925,000 cash prize as well as the title of the World Poker Tour. As of the time of writing, Sexton in in the bottom of the list with only 760,000. Brandon Novena is leading the pack with 5,040,000.

An exciting Poker game was held at Paradise Township’s Mount Airy Casino Resort. Many people have opted to take seats in the table but it took two to three hours before one could get a seat.

Since the Poker game gained popularity because of World Series of Poker and World Poker Tour, it is now way different than how the game was played way back 70’s exclaimed by the vise president of Casino, Jim Tuthill. Because of this popularity, the casino now has 72 table games which has been established July 11.

Hold’em Poker is the most popular among other poker games. It has been found with a lot of devoted poker players. This is because this game is quick, easy to learn and fast action. Most players also use a strategy by reading opponents. This technique made this poker game truly exciting and challenging. The Casino also earned a rake of commission because of poker. According to Tuthill, “We are essentially providing the table, labor, the dealer and supervisor in a regulated environment and collecting a fee for the service.”

Jim Tuthill added that the “Players are always looking tells”, “They stare each other down”.

Although other games link banked games are also popular like roulette and black jack.

Because of this success, the resort is planning to expand the hotel rooms and to add some interesting amenities in the next year to come. Also, it also in their hopes to expand the gaming.

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UB.com’s Annie Duke and four other witnesses: Ed Williams, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Discovery Federal Credit Union, Tom Malkasian, Vice Chairman and Director of Strategic Planning at Commerce Casino, Mohegan Tribe’s Lynn Malerba and Michael Fagan, a law enforcement and anti-terrorism consultant. Before the House Financial Services Committee they testified on Internet gambling. The hearing is considered to a preliminary stride leading to a mark-up of HR 2267, The Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act.

Duke convincingly summarizes her testimony by saying, “I suspect that some on this committee support freedom, apart from where individuals would use that freedom to make what they [committee members] believe to be bad choices. ‘Freedom to make good choices’ is an Orwellian term for tyranny; the governments of China, Cuba and Iran all support the freedom of their citizens to make choices that their governments perceive as good.” She ends by saying, “though you might feel about gambling on the Internet, I would suggest that gambling with freedom is far more risky.”

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