Last year, the Internet’s legions of dude bros rejoiced as having a Twitter account finally paid off when NHL legend Wayne Gretzky’s daughter, Paulina, was happily posting revealing pictures of herself for all of us to… respect and admire. Well, the Great One – like most fathers of absurdly attractive 23-year old girls – didn’t think too highly of that and he forced Paulina to remove all of the questionable pictures from her Twitter. Sadly, we were forced to find pictures of half naked girls elsewhere. So difficult.

Thankfully, what Wayne may or may not have realized is that the Internet has like 6 billion sites devoted to allowing people to post their pictures, and in case he didn’t hear about it, the popular photo sharing site Instagram was just purchased by Facebook for $1 billion recently. So yeah, that’s a pretty popular site, too.

Hey, maybe Paulina is on Instagram, posting pictures of her recent trip to Las Vegas with her boyfriend and their friends. Maybe she’s posting pictures of herself in a bikini in interesting positions with people of both genders. Let’s just check and see if this completely hypothetical idea is true… IT IS. Well done, Mark Zuckerberg.

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Central Florida baller Marcus Jordan, son of that one guy who used to play for the Bulls, had himself a nice little visit to Vegas last week with brother Jeffrey and a fellow UCFer, junior point guard A.J. Rompza. Now, the important thing to remember about Vegas is that you have to go in on a budget…unless your dad happens to be Michael Jordan.

Marcus Jordan later posted on his Twitter account about the players’ visits to Haze Nightclub and Liquid Pool Lounge at Aria Hotel and Casino City Center.

“Last night was stupid,” Marcus Jordan wrote on his Twitter account. “… 35k at Haze… Totals 50k something the whole day.. Damn!! Going to the pool again today.. Gotta relax!” –Orlando Sentinel.

Hey, good on him. I’m sure he his dad has the money and that he’s showing his son the ins and outs of losing more money than most people make in a year. That said, I couldn’t spend that kind of money if I was there for a month. And paid rent. Oh, and I forgot the best part–Marcus is only 20 years old. Eh, whatever. It’s not like he was soliciting johns in the parking lot. As far as I know…

The World Series of Poker’s main event starts this weekend, and if you weren’t aware, I suggest you start bucking up on it. If not for the love of the game, then because the lovely lady pictured isn’t just your run of the mill, jaw droppingly gorgeous, bikini clad woman. She’s pornstar adult entertainer Samantha Ryan, and she’s competing in this year’s WSOP. Like Vegas wasn’t awesome enough already.

Anyway, no idea where we’re going with this except to say UB-sponsored poker playing porn star Samantha Ryan (Tea Bags and Tossed Salads) is here at the 2010 WSOP in Event #49 ($1500 NLH). Probably the first time she’s ever had a guy limp in behind her (nyuck nyuck nyuck). –WickedChopsPoker

Samantha is being sponsored by ub.net, which explains all of the logs. If my fictional company ever decided to sponsor a pornstar, we would have a different marketing strategy. A henna tattoo on her ass, for example. I’m not really the gambling type, but if I were, I’d bet on more people seeing her bare assed than clothed ass, so it’d probably be a good investment. Even Danica Patrick sells sex, and she looks more like a 13 year old boy than anything. Read the rest of this entry »

Whether you recognize poker as a “sport” or not, the World Series Of Poker is one of great annual traditions of Las Vegas and, in my opinion, of all of sport. Poker is a universal game, one that relies on the stamina of a player’s mind while navigating through almost 50 days’ worth of poker tournaments. This year’s WSOP features 57 events, starting from tomorrow’s $50,000 Poker Player’s Championship event to the Main Event‘s induction of the November Nine.

I’m especially excited because I’ll be covering the Main Event live and in person throughout the month of July. I’ll be migrating from my accommodations at the Hard Rock Hotel to the tournament floor at the Rio and delivering daily updates with awesome stories and ridiculous anecdotes that will make you wonder why you weren’t following poker from the onset.

I get it, some of you are sick of watching it on TV. But this isn’t TV. This is the Land of the Badass and gaming goodness will show its papers at the gate. This coverage will kick you in the balls and run off with your wallet. So be ready. It’s going to be badass.

This time I was at The Venetian for Jennifer Harman’s charity poker tournament benefiting the Nevada SPCA. I happened to be in the neighborhood (seriously) and they offered to buy me in if I told everyone what a wonderful time I had. Uh, so I get to brag to everyone about playing poker in Vegas and I get a post out of it? Well, that plan kinda went to Hell when I busted out of the tournament on the first hand. It’s hard to brag about anything when you do it worse than Carrot Top. Oh, and I walked down a red carpet with a wiener dog, if you haven’t heard that story yet.

I put together a video after the jump; I apologize in advance for using that JXL remix, but really, it’s hard to do a video about Vegas and not use that song. And by the way, Carrot Top actually was there and he was really cool, so I really shouldn’t be ragging on him. More celebs and poker players in the video after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

Most of you that have read this site know that I will drag myself naked across broken glass for a poker game. Fortunately, I avoided that for this latest event, a charity hold’em tournament benefitting the Nevada SPCA No-Kill Animal Sanctuary, hosted by Jennifer Harman and featuring a slew of other pros and celebrities. I was happy to participate, and if you’re in the Vegas area today, you can find more info here. Just think of the chance to meet me as icing on the cake.

Also, I’m asking you to help Jennifer get into the WSOP Tournament of Champions, which for some reason decided to determine their field by popular vote. You can vote for Jen here. You will have to register with a valid email, but I don’t ask you guys for much.

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