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Podcast | KimosVegas.com | Hawaiian Airlines DiscountWELCOME to Kimo’s Vegas ... The Player’s Edge!
ELVIS IS IN the building ... well almost. Cirque du Soleil has officially announced a partnership with CKX (Elvis Presley Enterprises) to produce the Elvis Presley Show at the MGM Mirage City Center. The show is expected to open in November 2009 a special touring show is expected in 2008.
IF YOU’RE thinking the traffic on the world-famous Strip is busier than normal, you would be correct. With 225,000 vehicles cruising the resort corridor every day, experts are predicting a 24 percent increase over the next few years.
NOT TOO LATE to sign up for the Las Vegas Hilton’s $30,000 Close Encounters Slot Tournament Sept. 3.
OR CHECK out the Golden Nugget’s Saturday Night Slots tournament Sept. 11 ... for complete details, log on to www.KimosVegas.com.
JAMIE GOLD, the 2006 World Series of Poker champion, says he eats blueberries every day. He says “it’s brain food” and helped him win the WSOP ... bruddah, should try some Hilo lychee!
ROHN FROM the Hawaii Poker Club writes in that the 2007 Hawaii Poker Championship is happening at Binion’s Gambling Hall and Hotel, March 7-10. Congrats to last year’s champ, Scott Kaichi from Pearl City. For more details, go to www.HawaiiPokerClub.com.
DID YOU know that Las Vegas had a Koi Club? They are working on this year’s inaugural show at the Palace Station.
Paris Hilton is throwing a
Vegas CD release party
PARIS HILTON is having a CD release party in Vegas. It’s more of a carnival than a party, with variety acts, go-go dancers, live bands, spring jumpers, little people, sword swallowers, stilt walkers, monkeys, goats, a guy who jumps rope with three ladies on his back, record-breaking stunts and 10,000 people. The Paris block party is happening just south of Imperial Palace on Caesar’s Way across the street from Caesar’s Palace. The joke may be on us ... Paris can actually sing.
THIS WEEK on Kimo’s Vegas TV we check out the Monte Carlo. Visit the Vegas Channel 777 and www.KimosVegas.com to win a wedding at the Monte Carlo.
YOUR MGM Mirage Players Club card is now good at the Monte Carlo as well as the Bellagio, Mirage, Mandalay Bay, Treasure Island, New York, New York and MGM Grand.
FINALLY, this is not pretty, but ... 200 British poker players competed at London’s Café Royale for $20,000 in cash, the title of World Strip Poker Champion and the coveted fig leaf trophy. Each player was provided with six pieces of clothing to bet with and were eliminated when they were naked.
GET MORE Kimo’s Vegas at www.KimosVegas.com, in both issues of “MidWeek,” in Oceanic Time Warner’s “Around Hawaii,” on OC16 Monday at 9 p.m., on The New ESPN 1420 Thursday night at 7, and with Billy V. Friday morning at 7:20 on Hawaiian105 KINE.
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