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Follow Team Bodog Poker Professionals on Twitter and You Tube!

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Team Bodog poker pros David Williams, Jean-Robert Bellande, Justin Bonomo, and Evelyn Ng have been traveling all over the world to play in poker tournaments while living the high-roller Bodog lifestyle. So what have they been up to lately?

David Williams has been to Cannes, France to play the Partouche Poker Tour Championship Event; then he was off to Barcelona, Spain to play in the EPT Barcelona Event; and Williams is now in London playing in the WSOP Europe Texas Holdem event. David also took down event no. 42 for $107,800 this week at the WCOOP. Follow David on Twitter at @dwpoker or @dwbodogpro

Jean-Robert Bellande also made the trip to Cannes with David Williams for the PPT event and then to Cyprus for the WPT Merit Cyprus Championship. Based on his Twitter updates, he is currently in Tel Aviv, Israel playing in the WSOPE. Follow Jean-Robert on Twitter at @BrokeLivingJRB

Bodog's youngest poker pro, Justin Bonomo, is currently taking a break from poker. He has been enjoying life by going to concerts, UFC fights, and he's even been to Mexico City with friends to watch Mexico play Honduras in a World Cup qualifier match. Follow Justin on Twitter at @justinbonomo

Aside from playing a lot of Guitar Hero 5 and teaching people tricks for how to play poker, Evelyn Ng resides in Las Vegas and recently moved into a slick new condo with an amazing view of The Strip. You can follow Evy on Twitter at @evybabee

For more live action from Team Bodog Poker Pros, you can follow them on their video blogs at the Bodog You Tube channel. You can also try your luck at matching your poker skills against theirs playing online poker by downloading Bodog's free poker software and playing them at their own tables.

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Announcement: Roadrunners Speak about history with Area 51

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Roadrunners, International is a group of ex-military who formerly flew black missions for the CIA and air force.  These and other top secrets that are now unclassified will be presented to the public at this groundbreaking special session.  This is the first ever public reunion of Roadrunners and very much a coup for the Atomic Testing Museum, which is increasingly establishing itself as a primary voice on Nevada’s top secret history.

The panel will include members from Project OXCART and Operation BLACK SHIELD, which were declassified from December 1998 through September 2007.  One of the focuses of these projects was the U-2 spy plane, first tested at Groom Lake.  The Roadrunners have created a website that features thousands of declassified pages and photos depicting their “Area 51 Cold War legacy.” They are also soliciting submissions from others who have access to previously top secret photos and stories or Cold War activities.

Roadrunners International Panel:  AREA 51

Wednesday and Thursday, October 7 and 8, 2009

6 p.m.

Atomic Testing Museum (map it)

755 E. Flamingo Rd.

(Just East of Paradise Rd.) map it

$5 for all, museum members free

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Free sunglasses tonight at Hard Rock

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Is it okay to wear sunglasses at night?

You can if they're free.

Wasted Space Rock Club (at Hard Rock... the casino one on Flamingo) will be giving away pairs of sunglasses tonight only from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. An open bar will be available during the giveaway, so you must be at least 21.

No telling if the shades are the same that owner Carey Hart wears, but maybe they're from his personal collection.

Smells like Las Vegas

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What comes to mind when you think of Las Vegas?

The lights? Gambling? Showgirls?

How about smell?

On Nov. 20, a team of scent experts will team up to reveal a Las Vegas perfume, "capturing everything that the city stands for -- in a fragrance."

We've been to all of the Las Vegas strip casinos now and can recognize a few by their scent -- notably the MGM Mirage casinos Mandalay Bay, Monte Carlo, Bellagio, and former MGM casino Treasure Island. We also know to stay well away from another MGM casino because of its decidedly unattractive smell -- Circus Circus/Slots o'Fun.

But what does the city itself smell like? Find out at the SCENTworld Conference & Expo from Nov. 19-21 at the Renaissance Las Vegas Hotel.

McCarren International Airport’s Lost Passengers

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Clark County Department of Aviation is reporting a 9.8% drop in passenger counts at McCarren International Airport during August. August 2008 saw almost 4 million passengers while August 2009 tallied closer to 3.5 million flyers.

McCarren's No.1 carrier, Southwest Airlines, showed a 4.1% drop while the No. 2 carrier, US Airways, suffered a 34.6% drop in passengers from the same period last year. US Airways has canceled many of its scheduled flights into and out of McCarren as a result of the economic problems and rising fuel costs which helps account for the plummet in traffic. No. 5 carrier, American Airlines, had a 4.9% increase in passengers.

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Airport traffic is probably one of the factors considered in returning to the tried and true, "What happens here probably breaks most of the commandants but we won't tell anyone," national ad campaign. Look for all new Vegas ads coming soon to a TV near you.

Watch the new ads, have a laugh, then go buy an airplane ticket to Sin City. Come on gang, let's get those numbers back up where they belong. We're counting on you, and besides, you'll have a great time because it's a great time to be in Las Vegas. Perfect weather, world class shopping, world class entertainment, gambling, drinking, gluttony, sex.and partying around the clock. It's all here waiting.

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Pitbull Poker shuts down

Pitbull Poker has seemingly closed its doors for business.

Players can visit the website but are unable to login to the poker client, and sources say the owners in Costa Rica were seen moving out computers in the middle of the night.

Pitbull was originally launched under WSOP.com, a domain registered by former Binions employee Federico Schiavio, who wrote poker software entirely in Flash for his website. Pitbull may have used that software.

Recently Pitbull Poker had been accused of having "superuser" accounts, similar to the Absolute Poker scandal, in which one player can see everyone else's hole cards.

Suspicious moves come about when a player calls a bet on the river with a high card to win, checking or folding when beaten, folding a high pocket pair when against a higher, etc. Checking hand histories can bring up other quirks.

Pitbull had also stopped sending hand histories and responding to emails.

Bob Stupak, Poker Player, Leaves Las Vegas

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Bob Stupak, the Polish Maverick, lived his life like he played poker, with an aggressive style that was bigger than life and the poker game. He was a World Series of Poker Champion, 1989-Deuce to Seven Low Ball, and continued to play major poker tournaments until a few months before his death last week at 67 from leukemia. He also built the tallest occupied tower west of the Mississippi, the Stratosphere, where 1,149 feet below, you might find him playing in a low stakes poker game in his Las Vegas casino poker room.

I've taken many photos of Bob Stupak playing poker (I shot the 2004 photo on his Wikipedia page) over the years and have taken even more photos of the things he built. The Stratosphere Tower remains the most visible of his many accomplishments.

The former motorcycle racer crashed his Harley one sunny day in 1995 Las Vegas. A wreck so bad he was left in a coma near death for weeks with severe head injuries. But this was Bob Stupak, and of course he made a miraculous recovery and short months later was back to his WFO life and ramming and jamming the poker tables.

I remember the old Vegas World Casino with its "Plan 9 from Outer Space meets The Nightmare Before Christmas" decorating theme. Anyone that stopped at any service station in the Southwestern part of the country saw his VIP Vacation booklets that required incredible eyesight to read the fine print to receive the promised discounts at his outer-space Vegas World Casino. They later came under scrutiny as being not quite legal.

He was one of the tough guys that came to this desert outpost with a lot of guts and a dream that left an indelible presence on the city. Every time I see that concrete spire I'll think about the Polish guy that promised a million dollars to another guy to jump off his new casino building in a grand opening stunt, then charged the daredevil a $990,000 landing fee. I still laugh when I remember him b-slapping a news reporter and kissing another, all on camera and on the same day. I still have my stock certificate he issued to all eligible residents of Las Vegas in his tower project when he was running for some public office. He wasn't buying votes, he was just redistributing his losses.

Adios Bob, they most certainly broke the mold after they created you. I do hope you're someplace riding a custom Harley and passing out two-for-one coupons for the hereafter.

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