It took about five years - and the agony of several near-misses - before poker pro John "Razor" Phan scored his first World Series of Poker* gold bracelet last week. It then took him seven days to pocket his second. Coming off a dominant performance on Day 19 of PokerListings.com's live 2008 Series coverage, Phan was again in rare form on Day 26, running over the final table in Event 40, $2,500 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball, and turning himself into the story of the Series so far with a second bracelet.

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Titan Poker player Douglas Simmons hits the jackpot after 9 months of skilled poker playing.

RummyRoyal is celebrating football mania. On Saturday, June 28, Rummyroyal.com will raise the stakes and kick off the Euro 2008 Final with its BIGGEST Kalooki tournament yet. The site is giving football fans a chance to win $4000 and participate in one of the most exciting tournaments of 2008.

Diamond Resorts International® (DRI), a global leader in the vacation ownership industry, has appointed Bill Tsao, as Vice President, Operations, Latin America, for DRI. Tsao will initially be responsible for developing, implementing and managing DRI's growth and operations strategy in Latin America, including resort acquisition and development, sales and marketing and resort operations.

He'd courted poker glory before, finding himself the chip leader on Day 4 of the 2006 WSOP* Main Event - the very same event that catapulted Jamie Gold to poker immortality - before a huge hand pushed fate in the other direction. But Day 24 of PokerListings.com's live 2008 World Series of Poker* coverage saw coffee-shop-owner-turned-poker-pro David Woo finally get over the poker hump with his first-ever gold bracelet and a $613,656 payday in Event 39, $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em.

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Diamond Resorts International® (DRI), a global leader in the vacation ownership industry, has appointed Bill Tsao, as Vice President, Operations, Latin America, for DRI. Tsao will initially be responsible for developing, implementing and managing DRI's growth and operations strategy in Latin America, including resort acquisition and development, sales and marketing and resort operations.

He'd courted poker glory before, finding himself the chip leader on Day 4 of the 2006 WSOP* Main Event - the very same event that catapulted Jamie Gold to poker immortality - before a huge hand pushed fate in the other direction. But Day 25 of PokerListings.com's live 2008 World Series of Poker* coverage saw coffee-shop-owner-turned-poker-pro David Woo finally get over the poker hump with his first-ever gold bracelet and a $613,656 payday in Event 39, $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em.

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Rumored to have pocketed almost $3.5 million at the online Pot-Limit Omaha tables since January, 2008 was already shaping up to be a banner year for French poker pro David Benyamine. But Day 23 of PokerListings.com's live 2008 World Series of Poker* coverage saw Benyamine's year get even better - and his legend grow a little further - with his first-ever gold bracelet in Event 37, the $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Split Eight-or-Better World Championship.

Online poker player from Pasadena, Maryland wins $325,212.40 for losing a hand of Texas Hold'em.

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King of the Cage and Lake of the Torches Resort Casino Announce Main Events for No Holds Barred Cage Fighting, to be held in Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin on Saturday, July 19th, 2008.

Understanding video surveillance technologies and products is an important part of every security manager's job. Now, a book dedicated to making this easy is available. It is free and "Open Source", ensuring that any security manager can obtain, read, use and share. Covering IP Cameras, Megapixel Cameras, Video Analytics, NVRs and more, the book provides broad coverage on all the critical areas of today's video surveillance and CCTV.

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World renowned poker room Titan Poker is giving away weekly chances to win prize packages to a selection of one of four star-studded venues in the United Kingdom's most prestigious tournament, the Grosvenor Poker Tour (GUKPT).

CPALead, LLC (www.CPALead.com) is leading the cost-per-action (CPA) advertising industry's expansion beyond traditional boundaries with the release of new automation tools. The proprietary tools simplify the CPA advertising model for website publishers, social application developers, virtual worlds, massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG) and tournament gaming websites looking to more efficiently monetize users through incentive-based advertising.

The online backgammon site Play65 donates 100 backgammon boards to special schools in Israel as part of the "Good Deeds' Day".

Everest Casino revealed today that over the past two weeks, two separate casino games players hit record jackpots for video poker. One player struck it rich after only five days as a player at the casino.

The "Fighting Circus" is a new Poker770 promotion. Two exclusive tournaments in which the best of you will be selected to earn money every week.

Income Access, a leading affiliate network and provider of affiliate marketing solutions, has re-launched their website to highlight their three tiers of service.

14 websites will fight it out for over $15,000 during August and September.

While other spies hide their cameras and surveillance devices in pens, cigarette cases and lighters, Maxwell Smart cleverly hides a telephone in his shoe. Soon, the most famous prop in television history will come to life if Matt Potts, founder and president of ArchPortTM Shoes, has his way.

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Down to just two players in the Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo World Championship - famed poker icon Chris "Jesus" Ferguson and a young German unknown - most observers expected a very short and very decisive heads-up match, ending in a sixth career gold bracelet for Jesus. But, as the World Series is famous for, things didn't exactly go according to plan; four hours later, Day 21 of PokerListings.com's live coverage of the 2008 World Series of Poker* wrapped with a surprising new champion - 24-year-old Sebastian Ruthenberg.