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Las Vegas From Home.com Entertainment Inc.: Action Poker Gaming Inc. Licenses its Software to the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, California
Published: 2005-09-22
 VANCOUVER, British Columbia --(Business Wire)-- Sept. 22, 2005 -- Las Vegas From Home.com Entertainment Inc. (the "Company") or ("LVFH") (TSX VENTURE:LVH)(OTCBB:LVFHF)(BERLIN:LVH) is pleased to announce that it's wholly owned subsidiary, Action Poker Gaming Inc., ("APG") has licensed its Software to the Bicycle Casino (the "Bike") in Los Angeles, California.
Located just 10 minutes from downtown Los Angeles, the Bicycle Casino is home to the best gaming action in Southern California. With over 135 tables featuring poker and California games, the Bike ranks as one of the world's largest Card Casinos and is renowned for its World Class Poker Tournaments, including being a host venue for the World Poker Tour. At this time, the Licensing Agreement is to provide "Play for Fun" Software whereby players will have access only to "Play for Fun" tables at the Bike on the Action Poker Network ("APN"). Players will have the opportunity to earn Bonus points through their "Play for Fun" play and earn entry into free rolls and other related special promotions. The Software is scheduled to be released to the Bike's patrons in early October.
President and CEO, Jake Kalpakian states, "We are thrilled to license our Software to the Bike. While initially the Software is only for "Play for Fun", it's a terrific vote of confidence to have one of the world's largest and respected Cardrooms select our Software. This deal should open up other licensing opportunities, assist in branding the Action Poker Network by enabling APN to host special tournament promotions in conjunction with the Bike and perhaps most importantly, set us up well for the future to be the Software provider of choice to the largest land based Cardrooms if indeed inter-state poker becomes a reality. As such, and at this time, APG is in discussions with several other leading land based Casino Cardrooms to provide similar Software services."
Annual International Association of Gaming Attorneys Conference to be held in Vancouver
The Company's President and CEO, Jake Kalpakian has been invited to speak in a panel discussion at the International Association of Gaming Attorneys ("IAGA") in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Friday, September 23, 2005.
IAGA is a non profit professional corporation dedicated to the study and development of gaming law. IAGA holds an annual conference in a different major city each year where casino executives, regulators and lawyers from both the industry and private practices from all over the world meet to discuss national and international gaming laws.
To learn more about IAGA, please visit www.iaga.org.
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World Championship of Online Poker - Final Report
Published: 2005-09-19
 September 19, 2005
Jon Eaton
The Fourth Annual World Championship of Online Poker concluded last night with the $2,500 No-Limit Hold 'Em championship event. 1,494 players won their entry or paid the full fee to have their shot at the $859,050 first prize. This was a record for the WCOOP, and the $3,735,000 prize pool was a record for online poker.
Many big names in the poker world entered this event. The top names at Team PokerStars didn't fare as well as they would have liked, as most of their front-runners were out fairly early. Evelyn Ng (evybabee) went out 604th, Chris Moneymaker (money800) fell out in 1,355th, and Greg Raymer (Fossilman) busted in 402nd. Isabelle Mercier (NoMercy) did manage a very solid performance, finishing in 63rd and winning $9,337.
Other notables who entered but did not cash were Scott Fischman (emptyseat88), Noah Boeken (Exclusive), Barry Greenstein (crazyplayer), Joe Sebok (fidallio), John D'Agostino (jdags21), Layne Flack (reloadthis), and Brett Jungblut (gank).
135 players were paid money for their efforts, the worst a player who cashed could do was $3,735. All final table participants were guaranteed at least $56,025—which alone is more than 90% of online tournaments pay out altogether!
The final nine were assembled and ready to go to war for the monstrous prize money around 3:45 a.m. eastern. Top player Tony G (wraptduck) busted out on the bubble for the final table, but did manage to pocket $29,880.
Buster Love was the first to get felted, as his ace-four didn't connect against aaaaaaaa's pocket nines. Ninth was worth $56,025.
tralala became the terminator in the next few pots, eliminating lollylu with pocket aces and salas777 with ace-jack. lollylu took eighth for $85,905, and salas777 placed in seventh for $123,255.
JERRRY made a call for the last of his chips with pocket sevens, but saw Panella86 turn over pocket jacks. JERRRY didn't hit anything, obviously, as he exited the final table in sixth. For his long day of poker, JERRRY has $160,605 to ease his pain.
aaaaaaaa took the plunge next, in a mysterious all-in bluff with eight-three. Vendetta made the call with ace-jack, and eliminated aaaaaaaaa in fifth. He earned $197,955 for the finish.
Panella86 picked off PICKLED EGG with kings for fourth place. After that, they cut a deal three-handed to give Panella86 $527,342, tralala $573,735, and Vendetta $540,877. They would play for $50,000 and the gold WCOOP bracelet.
Fresh off of some interesting trash talk (as well as openly admitting he was 18 and drinking about a dozen-plus beers), Panella86 cracked tralala's pocket kings by check-raising all-in on the turn with a big draw. He made his runner-runner flush on the river and was heads-up for the title, and he isn't even old enough to buy the alcohol he was celebrating with.
It took only three hands for the young partier to eliminate Vendetta, who had held out for a while in deal negotiations. Vendetta called all-in on a six-high flop with ace-six, after he was check-raised by Pandella86. He was a huge favorite against jack-ten for no pair no draw, but the ten of spade on the turn gave Pandella86 a pair plus a flush draw. It was enough, and he became the fourth WCOOP Main Event champion.
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