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If you have ever tuned into watch the World Series of Poker on ESPN, then you may have heard of Marcel Luske. He’s the gentlemen always dress to impress in suit and tie. He also likes to carry a tune every now and then when playing poker. I sometimes sing the tuned he carried on one particular episode, and it goes as follow; “Give a little bit, give a little bit of your chips to me.” Well played Marcel. Recent news shows that Marcel plans on releasing his debut album with a live concert at the Bellagio Fontana Lounge in Las Vegas. The live concert is set for December 20th, so if you are in ‘sin city’ at the time, drop on by the Bellagio for some Marcel Luske entertainment.

Binion’s Hotel and Casino, the former home of the World Series of Poker, is forced to close their hotel. Binion’s claims they cannot compete with the other hotels in the Vegas area and they didn’t have any other choice. Las Vegas in general has been hit hard due to the economy, as visitor spending has plummeted due to tough times. Las Vegas is banking on their latest investment, the City Center, to help turn the slump around. The City Center will be a ’city within a city’ and Las Vegas execs are banking on the center to draw people to the area.

PokerStars, the king of online poker, is hosting a breast cancer charity event in honor of Nicole Rowe.  Nicole finish 2^nd in the 2009 Borgata Poker Open ladies event but the strange twist to this story is that the victor was a man.  Nicole was recently diagnosed with breast cancer, a disease that also killed her grandmother, and now PokerStars will run a tournament in her honor.  The “Bad Beat Poker Challenge” will take place November 12^th at 9 p.m. EST and there will be numerous prizes being donated by top poker pros.   All proceeds will go to the Prevent Cancer Foundation so please register today to help the cause.

The PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour in Auckland has come to an end and the champion has been crowned.  The tournament which was held at the SkyCity Casino was won by New Zealand native Simon Watt who is the one that claimed the first prize winnings of over $200,000.  Simon Watt eventually got the best of Gerome Guitteau in the heads up battle as his pocket fives were able to hold up.  Watt won his way into the life changing tournament by qualifying online in $22 rebuy tournament which was held on PokerStars.  Congratulations goes out to Simon as he was able to turn a $22 rebuy satellite into $209,000.

Father Andrew Trapp, a priest from a church in Garden City, has used a homemade video in attempt to win $1,000,000 for his parish.  Father Trapp will appear on FOX’s new show ‘PokerStars Million Dollar Challenge’ in hope that he will be successful in winning that one-million.  If he does go onto win he will give all of his winnings to his church.  Now I realize that the priest is doing good things with the money being that he is donating the money to his parish but I am still skeptical about this whole situation.  From what I remember church and poker/gambling weren’t supposed to go hand in hand.

Betfair, a well known online betting/gambling site is under scrutiny for using a young woman in advertisement.  Annette ‘Annette 15’ Obrestad (who once won a tourney without looking at her cards) was recently used in an advertisement and it was this ad that drew the criticism.  Protestors claim that using a person around her age (21) will influence younger people to begin gambling and placing sports bets themselves.  The ASA has banned Betfair and told them they cannot run anymore ads featuring people that look to be around the age of 25 (or younger) because of the effects it could have on young readers.

As the number of entrants exceeds the 1,200 mark and all direct buy-ins for the tournament have been sold out; what’s a player to do you may ask?  BoylePoker.com is offering satellites for online players wishing to enter this tournament which looks to be one of the biggest tournaments to take place outside the United States.  Players playing can qualify for the $25,000 tournaments with satellite tournaments starting at just $5.50.  Yes it may be a long shot when you starting with that low of a buy-in but why not give it a shot?  The tournament is set to begin Friday, October 16^th and it looks like the field will make history.

WCOOP is coming to a close and there are two players who are making their case for online poker’s best.  Bertrand ‘Elky’ Grospellier and Daniel ‘djk123’ Kelly both finished with two WCOOP bracelets and though they both fell short of the $1.7 million 1^st place prize in the two day event they both claimed six figure wins.  DJK123 finished a top the leaderboard just ahead of Elky with victories in Event 2: Razz and Event 44: HORSE High Roller.  Elky wasn’t to be out done too badly scoring victories in Event 43: NL Hold’em and Event 38 NL Hold’em (1R1A).

As a member of the Poker Player’s Alliance I am concerned with the future of ‘online poker’ and with Congress returning to session the future of ‘online poker’ hangs in the balance.  The bill to watch in the upcoming months is ‘Barney Frank’s Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act’, which would allow US companies to obtain licenses and give them the chance to legally operate online gaming sites by abiding to a federal regulated framework.  If you would like your voice to be heard then register with the Poker Player’s Alliance and help save online poker for the U.S. citizens.

Filed under: Tesla Motors

About a month ago we heard that Martin Eberhard had decided to drop his defamation and breach of contract lawsuit against Elon Musk and Tesla Motors. Now comes word that Eberhard and the defendants have actually reached a settlement. Given the ruling of the judge in the case that the suit could proceed, apart from the claim that Musk was falsely claiming a role as co-founder, the settlement should not come as a surprise.

With Tesla having some good news in recent months thanks to DOE loans and an investment from Daimler, the company would surely not want to keep this one hanging out there. As expected, no one is talking about any details of the settlement. However, in a statement that has not yet been released in full, Eberhard reportedly says, “As co-founder of the company, Elon’s contributions to Tesla have been extraordinary.” In return for whatever Eberhard got, he probably had to make nice with Musk. Interestingly, Eberhard’s TeslaFounders blog appears to have been closed.

[Source: LegalPad]

Martin Eberhard and Elon Musk reach settlement in lawsuit originally appeared on Autoblog Green on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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