The game of poker used to be accessible only in casino hotels in Las Vegas, Nevada or from electronic poker machines, but now it is more widespread than ever in Sin City thanks to the internet and TV.

The well-known Venetian Hotel and Casino, is now betting on this new trend with its new audience-participation show called “The Real Deal!” in its showroom located in the Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino, debuting in October.

This new idea will join comedy and game show elements to entertain its live audience. The audience will also be able to join in the popular game of Texas Holdem’ alongside the world’s best poker players. There will be prizes for the audience including a chance to win 1$ million.

In “The Real Deal!” the audience members will play with players like Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu. Around 10 of the World’s most famous poker players have already signed up for the show. The audience will be able to play along with the 90 minute game thanks to handheld, wireless, touch screen devices located on each seat.

“People who take a vacation in Las Vegas want to play poker games,” Negreanu says, “but obviously they can’t play in a big poker tournament with the players such as Doyle or Phil Hellmuth. But, in this show, they actually can.” At the beginning of each show, six audience members will be chosen to sit at the poker table on stage with two professional players. Each audience member is then involved in the action by being dealt a unique poker hand on their devices. Everyone in the showroom is then involved in the action with big-screen monitors located on stage.

The show’s producers say that you don’t have to be a poker player to join in the poker game. There are other ways to add to your point total, that doesn’t involve the game of poker necessarily. Betting on the suit of the next poker card or trying to guess which state a particular audience member is from, are just some of the ways to come out a champ in this game.

Creators of the show are also betting on the great personalities of the professional poker players to create some interesting moments. Someone like Scotty Nguyen, the flamboyant five-time World Series of Poker winner, definitely definitely knows how to entertain the audience and will provide some great entertainment in this revolutionary poker game show .

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With all the talk about the United States government and their crackdown on poker rooms, very few have taken up the point that many financial experts have made, that the United States government has legislated itself out of a strong taxable revenue source that could keep the economy afloat even in times of slow revenue growth and depression. With the online poker rooms and casinos, the potential to generate tremendous amounts of revenue is patently obvious and requires little more than the publishing of the online poker room and casino software to the web. With this simplicity and ease of use, even the bureaucrats and pencil pushers that make up the United States government industrial complex can see that there are literally millions of dollars to be earned with this type of online poker room casino wagering. While it is true that many types of gambling, such as those types of events that are based on playing against the house and feature extremely poor odds for the player, are certainly unsuitable for taxation and revenue purposes due to their unfair nature, the earnings that are brought in through the rakeback at online poker rooms and casinos is generous enough to fuel the revenue generation program that the United States could theoretically construct, implement and take advantage of to stave off recession and lack of growth, as well as add to the overall profitability of the gross domestic product.

With this emphasis on what should happen and what might happen, it is easy to overlook what is happening. The United States government is singularly unimpressed with online poker rooms and casinos and has expressed the desires of the politicians who find online poker rooms and casinos to be a hot button issue, capable of generating enough press to attain reelection, the politicians number one concern.
As long as politicians and government officials put so much emphasis on combating online poker rooms and casinos and ignore their ability to generate income inside the United States, the American entrepreneur will never be able to take advantage of this world of opportunity to earn a tremendous amount of income through the proprietorship of online poker rooms and casinos. With this lopsided approach to eliminating American players and potential proprietors of online casinos ability to generate income through the proprietorship of these types of establishments, the American government has adopted the very strange policy of eliminating the ability of United States citizens to earn any type of income from the online poker rooms and casinos beyond what they can earn at the tables.

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Participating in online poker rooms and casinos and signing up for the rakeback sharing affiliate program can be an extremely popular, fun and exciting way to earn additional income on the Web. But in the case of many rakeback sharing affiliate program members, participating in the rakeback program is literally the whole reason for participating in the first place. Considering the sharing of residual income over time and its lucrative payouts, the rakeback program is a big motivator for players to participate on the web. Without the rakeback sharing affiliate program, many online poker rooms and casinos would lose a tremendous amount of their business very quickly and have problems maintaining the revenue that is generated on a regular basis. As long as you make that sharing affiliate program is in place, it is very likely that there will be no problem with maintaining new business and keeping new players playing at the online poker room and casino tables in general. In the case of the legal ramifications involved in the rakeback sharing affiliate program, up until now, it has been legal due to the reduced amount of sharing. The law regulates the amount of revenue that can be shared at a certain percentage, which online poker rooms and casinos such as Fulltiltpoker.com follow to the letter. But with new legislation and new developments, the rakeback program as it is currently known may change over the coming years into some other type of program that is barely recognizable by players of the modern-day poker rooms and casinos. While it may be true that online poker rooms and casinos provide a tremendous amount of competition in tournaments as well as free rolls to motivate players and provide extra incentive to participate, without the rake back sharing affiliate program that so many players have gotten used to, it is very likely that these types of online poker rooms would very quickly go out of business without the interest that is sparked by these types of online poker promotions.

Obviously if the United States government was to completely eliminate the rakeback sharing affiliate program or change it so much that it no longer resembles its current incarnation, players would most certainly leave the Internet in droves and look for action elsewhere, anywhere that the rakeback was less constricted and harshly imposed upon by United States government law. In the case of the online poker rooms and casinos that currently exist, very few of them would survive if the rakeback sharing affiliate program was completely eliminated.

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