Perhaps a “down year,” for some, was needed before something bigger was supposed to happen. Players who feel like they will be in a position to make something happen in 2021 will have plenty of opportunities.
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This week focuses on a few unique promotions to ring in the New Year. Speaking of the New Year, may you make yours a good one.
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January’s Point Multiplier promotion falls on every Thursday and Sunday, with Martin Luther King Jr. Day counting as a bonus day (Monday, Jan. 18).
Clear the clutter from 2020 and work on organizing yourself for the year for “January Gift Days.” Fridays in January are gift days premised on storage offerings for Boarding Pass players.
This Friday’s gift is a six-shelf hanging closet organizer. On Jan. 15, a large storage cube is available, with its smaller counterpart being offered on Jan. 22. The month closes out with a storage hamper and laundry bag on Jan. 29. Players have to earn 300 same-day points for their gift.
Venues participating include Red Rock, Santa Fe, Sunset, Boulder, Green Valley and Palace.
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Club Royale players get their first $20 back for the “Player Payback” promotion. Players who lose their first $20 get an instant $20 credited to their account in free slot play credits. By continuing to play, players get another $20 in free slot play for every $100 lost afterward.
South Point
With the new format behind the NFL Playoffs kicking off this week, the poker room is giving away cash for its “Playoff Big Money Games” promotion. The playoff-long promotion rewards random seats through a drawing.
For the Wild Card and Divisional rounds $150 is dished out for each made field goal, $250 for each touchdown and $599 for each safety. Amounts are raised for the championship rounds as $250 is paid for each field goal, $500 for each touchdown and $1,000 for each safety.
The Super Bowl payout is $500 for each field goal, $1,000 for each touchdown and $2,500 for each safety.
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— South Point Hotel (@southpointlv) January 2, 2021
Sahara
The new year is starting off with the “$10,000 Winter Freeroll.” Players have the chance to win $1,500 during weekly No-Limit Hold ‘Em Freerolls. All of the winners from each week’s Freeroll will participate in the $10,000 Finale on March 14, 2021. The grand prize for the finale is $3,000.
Infinity Rewards players looking to qualify need to earn a minimum of 200 points each drawing period. The top 21 players for that weekly drawing period are eligible for the freeroll. The next drawing period for the contest starts on Thursday and runs through Wednesday, Jan. 13. The weekly drawing takes place each Sunday at 1 p.m.
The “Progressive Tuesday Multiplier” promotion enables players to gain as much as 12x in point multiplication. Players earn 3x point multipliers for the first Tuesday they swipe-in. Add 3x the points for each consecutive Tuesday swipe-in, for the rest of the month.
The “January Weekly Slot Tournament” is up-and-going each Wednesday, now through Jan. 27. Players can earn as many as three entries each tournament day for a chance at $500 in free slot play. When you earn 100 points, you have between 12 p.m. and 7 p.m. to play your tournament round.
For 2021, Sahara is emphasizing the number 21 in a couple of different ways. Infinity Rewards players who have a birthday that falls on the 21st day of the month and new players who sign up when they turn 21 will get a complimentary gift.
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How difficult can it be to make a good poker scene in a movie? According to James Bond director Martin Campbell the ‘Casino Royale’ remake poker showdown was as elaborate as any stunt 007 was involved in!
The 2006 movie grossed a monster $606million at the box office, with Daniel Craig’s ‘Bond’ and Mads Mikkelsen’s blood-eyed villain ‘Le Chiffre’ involved in the highest stake poker game of all time.
For poker fans, of course, seeing their beloved game depicted on the big screen is almost always more ‘miss’ than ‘hit’, so how did director Campbell manage to produce such an intense facsimile of a real highstakes game?
“What you realize is, it’s not just the card games — it’s the stakes. It’s also two guys eye-fucking one another, basically. That was the secret,” explained to Polygon.com.
With No Limit Hold’em replacing the Baccarat Chemin de Fer of the Ian Fleming book version, and the 1967 movie version…
…the cast and crew had to be taught the game basically from scratch to ensure everything from continuity to poker tells would come across as realistically as possible.
Not an easy task for poker consultant Tom Sambrook, the 2002 winner of the European Championships explaining:
“I’d just basically tell them what the absolute bare minimum was that they needed to know to look like they had been playing this game.”
Sambrook also admits to making a bit of money on the side, taking the actors for their ‘per diem’ in hastily-arranged games in the studios.
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The Englishman, who finished ahead of Hendon Mobster Barny Boatman and EPT legend John Duthie to win his title, explained:
“We’d be playing games constantly between takes,” adding cheekily, “I saw it as their privilege to learn by paying me this money.”
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Director Campbell somehow pulled together all the elements of the game in an almost believable series of poker scenes, mixed in with the usual action-packed adventures of a typical Bond movie.
He believes the 30 minutes of gameplay that made the final cut, showing three massive hands, was critical to the success of the film, admitting:
“It was the thing I sweated on more than anything else.”
After discovering Le Chiffre’s ‘tell’, Bond has to survive two assassination attempts in his bid to end the villain’s hopes of winning the $130million poker game.
“From a dramatic point of view, each of the card games has a good climax,” says Campbell, and if the final scene still grates with some poker fans, there is a reason.
The four-way all-in sees Le Chiffre’s full house lose to Bond’s straight flush, with most fans expecting a Royal Flush to win the day for the movie hero.
“He wins with an inconspicuous straight flush, rather than the royal flush,” Sambrook says, adding to Director Campbell’s vision of a “new Bond” , a less flashy, more believable hero.
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Check out the finale yourself!
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