The Poker Player's Expo will feature vendors and special guests from around the world.
Among the industry representatives will be poker authors, casino personnel, tournament promoters, gaming device manufacturers and a host of others.
The expositions will also feature a vast array of poker collectibles including chips, playing decks, felts, gaming devices, books, videos, DVDs, apparel, posters and more.The inaugural expo at the Biltmore Hotel features an impressive roster of industry luminaries:
Renowned professional gambler turned author, Oklahoma's own "Pody" Poe will be the featured guest on Thursday and Friday.
He will be conducting a humorous and often titillating lecture on his life that no poker player, pro or amateur, will want to miss. Gary Carson is the author of The Complete Book of Hold 'em Poker and The Complete Book of Casino Poker.
Additionally, Gary has written articles for Card Player, Poker Digest, and Live Action Poker.Guest Speaker Dan Michalski authors a weekly poker column for theSPORTSpage in Dallas, is a contributing editor at All In magazine, and runs the blog Pokerati.com.
Dan's r?sum? also includes award-winning work for several publications including Texas Monthly, Maxim, The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, Men's Health, and Men's Journal. Speakers start at 5:30 P.M. on Thursday, 4:00 P.M. on Friday and Saturday.Event information:Biltmore Hotel Oklahoma401 S.
Meridian Ave, Oklahoma City, OK
73108(405) 947-7681
The Pro-Am Poker Player's Expo is an all-ages event.
Tickets are $20 at the door with a 50% discount for military, students, and senior citizens.
Children under 12 are admitted free.
Convention-goers can get their $20 admission fee back at The Gaming Club Poker Room's booth by registering a new online poker account.
This offer is limited to the first 350 people through the door.No gambling will be allowed at the convention or on the hotel premises.
Cameras and video cameras are welcome.For more information visit www.pokerontour.com.For media credentials, contact Gary Stone at (405) 821-4565 or via email at e-mail protected from spam bots.
10 Tips to Avoid ?Bandwagon Business?.
10 Tips to Avoid ?Bandwagon Business'. By ? 2005Firstly, we have to define exactly what ?Bandwagon Business' means. If you are familiar with my various articles, you will know that I often use common phrases or sayings in support of my argument / points.This is no exception!Here, the phrase is ?jump on the bandwagon' - meaning to get involved with the latest venture / fad / craze / in order to make money, achieve an element of success or just simply to appear ?cool'.In the business sense, I am relating to the frequently changing developments, niche opportunities, schemes, incredible new ventures????.What is clearly apparent, in particular in the online world - or the internet as we all know it, is the vast numbers of people who seem to jump from one bandwagon to another, with intense frequency, that you may be left thinking they have surgically attached springs to their feet.Unless you are VERY lucky indeed, this process will not work for you. Here are my Top Ten Tips to Spot / Avoid...
10 Tips to Avoid ?Bandwagon Business?.
AlfaMag Electronics New Line of Low Cost EI Laminate Transformers
Rolla, Missouri ContentDesk) August 15, 2005 --
AlfaMag Electronics has a new line of EI laminate transformers with power ranges 50VA, 90VA, 180VA, 250VA, and 500VA, with standard input voltages at 115/230VAC, 50/60Hz, and standard dual output voltages of 5V, 12V, 18V and 115V (connected in parallel) and 10V, 24V, 36V, and 230V (connected in series). Electrostatic shield between primaries and secondaries optional.
These transformers are low cost and high quality, constructed with a UL recognized class B insulation system.
UL recognized class F and class H insulation systems are available.
Dielectric strength 3500Vrms minimum.
Full specification and dimensionsal information can be viewed on the Product Index link on the AlfaMag website.
For additional information, contact Rick Eissinger, Sales Manager at AlfaMag Electronics, Phone: 800-413-6693 or 573-364-2422, Fax: 573-364-5390AlfaMag Electronics specializes in high frequency magnetic...
Free Stress Relief for the Holidays
Barbara Robins, founder of 'Into This Moment Natural Bioenergetics', has developed a vibrational healing CD specifically for Holiday and family issues. With a combination of current recording technology and the latest understanding of quantum physics, powerful healing vibrations can be transmitted to you easily and effortlessly. This innovative holiday/family healing CD helps eliminate all the issues people experience before, during and after holidays - depression, feeling overwhelmed, tension between family members, etc.The greatest advantage of these CDs is that you can go about your everyday activities while the CD is playing. The healing work takes place automatically leaving more time for fun and play. When asked how she came up with the idea for putting healing vibrations on CD Barbara said: "I created these CDs after producing a voice mail message in which I embedded a healing vibration for stress reduction.
After listening to this recording several people told me they...
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Zz’s Petals Opens Online Natural Perfumery Boutique
Cincinnati, Ohio (ContentDesk) June 20, 2006 -- Zz (Liz)
Zorn is a natural perfumer. Creating fine artisan fragrances from natural materials.
For the past year she has been on a mission to expand her vision and open her own perfume boutique online. Beginning with her Alpha 5 Series. A wonderful collection of five fragrances created from her own personal blends.
Including Sinti,
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bold Centifolia Rose Perfume, Jazz Trio #1, A
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making it easy for individuals to create their own custom fragrance, by mixing different scents from the collection.Zz began her journey into natural perfumes as a young girl hooked on the exotic scents of Patchouli and...
New Web Services Increase Profits and Rescue Classified Advertising for Newsprint Industry in Death Spiral
Orem, Utah (ContentDesk) January 17, 2006 -- BuyLookSell, Inc. (http://www.buylooksell.com/newspaper) has released seven new web services enabling the newspaper industry to rapidly expand their existing classified advertising business. The services are provided with no up-front costs to the publication and are hosted by BuyLookSell, Inc. while branded as the newspaper integrating directly into a newspaper organizations existing online advertising section. BuyLookSell, Inc.s technology enables newspaper organizations to capture automotive, finance, insurance and real estate leads through their online classified advertising sections and offer online employee recruitment services.
Newspapers in partnership with BuyLookSell, Inc. will then sell captured leads and access to employee resumes at a premium.Additional custom programming services are also available without up-front costs to the newspaper further enabling...
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New Free Interview Guide Generator Helps Employers Avoid Discrimination During Interviews
Employment Screening Resources (ESR), a nationwide pre-employment background screening firm, announced today the release of a free web based interview guide generator to help employers build printed interview forms for any position to avoid the potential of discrimination in the interviewing process.
Using a "structured interview" guide during applicant interviews helps employers ask permissible questions in a consistent fashion for all applicants for a position.The free tool allows employers to select from generic interview questions, or to create their own questions, and then create a printed form that can be saved or modified.
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also gives employers the flexibility of adding their own question to different sections of the interview guide, The free tool is available from the ESR website at www.ESRcheck.comThe tool was created by ESR President, Lester S.
Rosen, the author of "The Safe Hiring Manual?The...