Crypto-Focussed, Phil Ivey-Fronted Virtue Poker Ready for Real-Money Launch in May
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It’s been a long road from concept to fruition for the cryptocurrency-based online poker site Virtue Poker, with Phil Ivey still in place as its leading spokesplayer, and a pending real-money launch slated for next month.
For three and a half years, Phil Ivey has promoted an online poker room that didn’t actually exist. That will soon change with Virtue Poker’s planned May launch. (Image: Twitter/PhilIvey)
Poker Hall of Famer Ivey has been the face of the blockchain poker project since his own “Ivey League” enterprise closed its doors in 2017.
Leaving Las Vegas Flying High: Texas Woman Hits $300K Jackpot at Airport
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If your Las Vegas poker trip was a complete failure due to some unfortunate bad beats, you can still go home a big winner on your way out of town. A lucky woman recently binked a $300,000 jackpot while waiting for her flight at the soon-to-be renamed McCarran International Airport (will become Harry Reid International Airport).
She seems a lot more excited than when Dan Colman shipped the One Drop in 2014 for $14 million. (Image: Twitter/Las Vegas Locally)
The woman, identified only as Megan H. from Flower Mound, Texas, posed for a picture next to the Wheel of Fortune slot machine she played afterwards. Her celebration was captured in a brief video posted to Twitter.
More than a dozen MPs and over 100 event industry executives have signed a letter to the chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak, copying in prime minister Boris Johnson, calling for him to implement a Government-backed insurance scheme for festival, live music and events or face them disappearing from our fields and cities for good.
The letter, written by DCMS Committee chair Julian Knight MP, follows the 5 January opening hearing of the Committee’s inquiry into the future of UK music festivals, during which festival operators emphasised the urgent need for Government support.
At a crucial point in festival planning schedules, MPs warn that organisers and investors are unable to risk repeating losses sustained in 2020 unless events can be insured against cancellation.
Calls for insurance scheme intensify in industry letter
Thursday, 7 January 2021
A number of MPs and live event specialists have signed an open letter to Rishi Sunak in a bid to save summer events and more (Photo: Hanny Naibaho)
UK - The live events industry has launched a fresh appeal for a government-backed COVID-19 insurance scheme with a letter signed by 120 sector representatives and MPs. In the letter, written by the chair of the DCMS committee Julian Knight and addressed to the chancellor Rishi Sunak, the sector - which has largely been shut down since March 2020 - warns that “[w]ithout insurance, the events we know and love simply won’t take place this year - vaccine or no vaccine”. “Sustaining losses like those we’ve seen in 2020 for another year isn’t an option, and hundreds of businesses in the events supply chain have already been forced to fold,” the letter continues. “The Government has backed insurance for the film and television industry to the