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The Vegas Open Tournament is to be the first major poker competition to be shown in the High Definition format, meaning those with high definition televisions will see cards dealt in greater detail than has ever been seen before. Within the Vegas Open, there are 10 separate tournaments available to the public, and each of those competitions has a $1060 buy-in. The winners of the individual matches get a place in a semi-final heads-up match, which will decide the final 5. The poker champ will take home a $100,000 cash prize. This is the first of a series of international poker tournaments put together by the National Poker League. The Vegas Open is what the National Poker League calls an opportunity for players everywhere “lots of game with a smalled bankroll” and of course, the potential for TV stardom!

Experts in the computer programming world are the first to admit that developing a computer program that plays poker like a person is still a long ways off. In the meantime Thomas Sandholm, the director of Carnegie Mellon's Electronic Marketplaces is excited about their GS2 poker robot. When compared to the other poker bots out there, GS2 is one of the more realistic at copying the way a real-life poker player would play the game. Thomas Sandholm explains that the logic behind creating a computer program that simulates something like poker is a flawed process. Poker players decide how to play their hands based on partial information, there are too many unknowns to create a program that duplicates what a real person would do at the table. When you add the various combinations of cards on the table and betting logic it makes a computer program hard to develop due to the high amount of unknowns. The program will be tested some more at Carnegie Mellon labs throughout the remainder of t

By 2:30 p.m., there were 8,580 entrants registered, pushing the top prize to $11.7 million. Alternates were waiting in the wings and new players were being accepted until Monday, when the grand prize could swell even larger. At the very least, the last 12 players still standing when the 37th annual no-limit Texas Hold 'em tournament wraps up will become millionaires. The final table is scheduled to begin play Aug. 10. "Everybody's got dreams and aspirations but you've got to get through a lot of people here," said Greg Severson, a 45-year-old building contractor from Upland, Calif., who qualified for his $10,000 seat online. "One step at a time," he said. "First break, dinner break, first day. One day at a time." By the break after the first two hours, about 80 players already had been eliminated. The first field of 2,140 players was set to play as long as it takes to get down to 900. A staggered start over four days will chop the field in half

Here are the results of the final table from Event 34, the $1,000 no-limit hold 'em with rebuys event. Earnings are also listed. Buy In: $1,000 Prize Pool: $2,340,238 Entries: 754 Places paid: 73 1. Phil Hellmuth Jr. -- $631,863 2. Juha Helppi --$331,144 3. Daryn Firicano --$187,219 4. John Spadavecchia --$163,817 5. Terris Preston --$140,414 6. Elio Cabrera --$117,012 7. David Plastik --$93,610 8. Rafael Perry --$70,207 9. Antanas 'Tony' Guoga --$46,805 10. Phillipe Rouas --$25,743

Buy In: $5,000 Prize Pool: $1,776,600 Entries: 378 Places paid: 36 1. Jason Lester -- $550,746 2. Alan Sass -- $284,256 3. Stuart Fox -- $142,128 4. Tony Hartmann -- $124,362 5. Michael Tedesco -- $106,596 6. Greg Turk -- $88,830 7. Emad Tamtouh -- $71,064 8. Tommy Smith -- $53,298 9. Kirill Gerasimov -- $35,532 10. Nam Le -- $21,319

Here are the results of the final table from Event 32, the $1,500 Seven Card Razz event. Earnings are also listed. Buy In: $1,500 Prize Pool: $558,285 Entries: 409 Places paid: 40 1. James Richburg -- $139,576 2. Juan Carlos Mortensen -- $94,908 3. Steven Diano -- $61,411 4. Cliff Josephy -- $39,080 5. Ron Ritchie -- $30,706 6. Richard Sklar -- $25,123 7. "Miami" John Cernuto -- $19,540 8. Jamie Brooks -- $13,957 9. Chad Carpenter -- $7,258 10. Eric Froehlich -- $7,258