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HeadsUp Entertainment International Inc, owner of the Canadian Poker Tour (CPT) is inviting poker players to take part in the 2010 WPS Caribbean Poker Cruise, an exclusive event designed and launched between the Canadian Poker Tour (CPT) and The World Poker Showdown, and set to take place aboard Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines “Freedom of the Seas”.

The cruise takes place April 25 - May 2, 2010, departing from Port Canaveral, Florida with ports of call in the Bahamas, St. Thomas and St. Maarten. The 7 day event will feature 10 poker tournaments with buy ins ranging from $150 to $500 and a $2700 Deep Stack Main Event. Online satellites are currently running on 888 PacificPoker.com starting for as low as $3.

Players taking part in this event will be able to mingle, meet, play and party with poker pro and recently voted the “hottest girl in poker”, Lacey Jones, Canadian Poker Player magazines CPT girl of the month Amanda Hellmer, World Poker Showdown Founder Herb Van Dyke and CPT President and CEO Kelly B. Kellner.

Besides the exciting poker tournaments and cash games, Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas offers more activities than probably any other cruise ship, including H2O Zone, Cantilevered whirlpools, Rock-climbing wall , Ice-skating rink, Themed bars and lounges, Fitness Center and Day Spa, Full-size Everlast boxing ring, Full-size sports court and several wine bars and restaurants.

“We are very happy with the response from players around the world as we have already seen bookings from 13 countries which always makes these events amazing. We have held 5 cruises to date and this looks to be the best yet, as the Canadian contingent always adds excitement to the mix!” stated WPS Founder Herb Van Dyke.

Players can reserve seats at this one of a kind event on the World Poker Showdown’s official site or by calling 1-800-627-8000.

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Full Tilt Poker and Karma Foundation are teaming up to present the annual Kandy Masquerade. Known for its seduction and mystery, Kandy Masquerade will take place on Saturday, February 27th, at 8:0 PM at the world famous Playboy Mansion.

The Kandy Masquerade will provide toiling L.A. Poker Classic poker players an opportunity to take a break from this season’s longest running tournament. To accommodate players attending Kandy Masquerade, LAPC tournament director Matt Savage has slated an 8:00 PM break on Day 2 of the main event.

In addition of all the excitement and poker event, the party will feature live music by World renowned DJ’s DJ MisterE and Paul Oakenfold. All proceeds from this event will benefit the Nevada Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Kandy events are synonymous for sexy themes, great entertainment, exquisite décor, and best of all, lots of beautiful women clad with only masks and intimate lingerie partying and dancing with gentlemen masked in dark clad attire, reminiscent of a Venetian Carnival. Dress code requires men to wear masks and black attire.

Tickets are $1,000 in advance. The price includes admission, complimentary parking at the Roosevelt Hotel, shuttle to the Playboy Mansion, heavy hors d’ oeuvres, dinner, dessert, open premium bars, and live entertainment.

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NASCAR Sprint Cup Team Front Row Motorsports with Yates Racing, has signed a sponsorship deal with the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino on Las Vegas Strip that will showcase the resort’s logo on two of its cars during this weekend’s Shelby American 500 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

“Front Row Motorsports with Yates Racing is thrilled to get together with Planet Hollywood. Las Vegas is always a fun race, and to get such a huge player like Planet Hollywood on board with our Ford Fusions will make it even better. I know they have a lot of excitement over there at the casino, and we put on a pretty good show at the speedway, too. For a fan, sounds like a perfect weekend.” said Bob Jenkins, owner of Front Row Motorsports with Yates Racing.

The resort and casino’s logo will be displayed on the lower-rear quarter panels of  Travis Kvapil’s No. 34 and David Gilliland’s No. 38 Ford Fusions. The partnership is a perfect combination of the high stakes and fast action of both Las Vegas entertainment and NASCAR racing.

“This is a great opportunity for Planet Hollywood to reach the NASCAR audience. In addition to the fans at the track, there are millions of fans watching on television, and we’re excited they’ll see the Planet Hollywood name on the cars.” said Robyn Peot, Vice President of Brand Marketing for Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino.

The annual Shelby American 500 will take place at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Sunday, February 28th, at 3 p.m. Tickets for the Shelby American 500 still available online, for more information, please visit WDIAV Ticket section or click here.

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Online poker site CarbonPoker.com is celebrating the 2010 Winter Olympics with two special promotion awarding players WSOP Seats, cash prizes, coupons, live seat satellites entries and exclusive Gold, Silver and Bronze Olympic Accolades.

Between February 1st to 28th, players will have the chance to take part in two special promotions: The 2010 Nordic Combined Poker Championship and the 2010 Alpine MTT Championship. Carbon Poker’s  Nordic Combined Poker Championship guarantees $15.000 in prizes for the top 100 VIP Points earners in the leaderboard as well as exclusive Olympic Accolades for the top 10 players.

The 2010 Olympic Alpine Poker Championship offers players special Olympic tournaments running three times a day. Each tournament features a guaranteed prizepool and will award the Top 5 Players free entry into the Alpine Championship Grand Final - “Tournament of Champions”.  Buy ins for these tournaments range from $2+$0.20 for the $250 guaranteed events to $55+$5 for the $3,750 guaranteed events. The more events you play in (and finish in top 5), the bigger your chipstack will be for the main event. The top 5 players in the main event will get seats at the 2010 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, while players finishing between 6th to 25th place will get cash prizes ranging from $650 to $100.

For more information about CarbonPoker 2010 Winter Olympics, please visit CarbonPoker.com.

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I occasionally talk here about how impatient I sometimes get with poker-related analogies. For instance, about a year ago I referred to the Poker Shrink noting how he wasn’t “a big fan of the ‘Poker is like Life’ books and articles” because, in his view, most of them end up being “too general to carry any more wisdom than a dribble glass.” I agreed with the Shrink in saying I also didn’t care much for these analogies — most particularly when they end up making one’s meaning more vague rather than helping clarify what it is one is trying to express.

In other words, I ain’t too keen on someone proclaiming “Poker is like life” and leaving it at that, though I do often appreciate the many ways poker presents us with situations that resemble those we face elsewhere, and thus occasionally provides interesting ways to talk about and assess those non-poker situations. And yeah, I, too, will indulge in such making comparisons now and again, as it is both fun and occasionally even useful.

That said, one has to be careful not to introduce unwanted vagueness when making such comparisons. Another danger one faces when choosing to employ poker-related metaphors is to fall into stale, overused phrases and clichés — also not recommended if the goal is to engage an audience.

The abundance of poker terms and phrases in everyday English is testament to the game’s popularity and significance. But this abundance also means many of these terms and phrases have become pretty well worn by now. People everywhere are constantly bluffing each other. Or upping the ante. Or noting when the chips are down. Or passing the buck. Or trying their hand at something. Or singing that he can’t read my, can’t read my, no he can’t read my poker face. Or warning you about that guy being a wild card, with an ace in the hole. Or up his sleeve. Or simply being an ace.

I’m reminded of George Orwell’s still relevant 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language” in which he laments the decline of the language in various contexts, but most especially in political speech and writing. Among his many warnings listed there, Orwell advises readers to avoid “dying metaphors” if at all possible. In his list of examples Orwell does include one poker-related one — “playing into the hands of” — and I’d imagine he’d list most of those appearing in the previous paragraph, too, as often introducing an unwanted “loss of vividness” in one’s language.

Last week Tiffany Michelle appeared on Fox News to chat with Neil Cavuto, ostensibly to discuss the current status of President Obama’s efforts to introduce health care reform and all of the legislative tangling — and political fallout — that has occurred in connection to those efforts thus far. Why Michelle? Well, because she’s “a professional black jack and poker player” — i.e., a gambler — and someone thought it would be a good idea for a person who understands risks and rewards to comment.

Bill Rini wrote a bit about the segment last week in a post that also has the embedded video. Then he came back and transcribed the whole sucker. As Rini points out, the conversation between Cavuto and Michelle — coming in at just under five minutes — is more than a little cringe-worthy, primarily because of the not terribly successful attempt to describe everything in terms of poker or gambling metaphors.

It appears that Cavuto (and Fox) mainly wanted to say that Obama has “a bad hand” here and should fold. And perhaps — as Cavuto hastily adds at the end — also to charge that the President isn’t playing with his own money, but with the taxpayers’. So they brought Michelle on to help communicate that message, but Cavuto’s questions were so imprecise those (essentially banal) observations barely came through, if at all.

If you’re curious, check out Rini’s transcript and/or watch the video. I actually wouldn’t fault Michelle too much here — she does pretty well, I think, to try to respond to Cavuto’s garbled clichés, and in fact probably saves the whole segment from becoming utterly inscrutable.

The hosts of The Poker Beat discussed the segment a bit on their show last week, and there tourney reporter B.J. Nemeth did a good job summarizing why it failed — and why I am sometimes impatient with poker-related metaphors that tend to obscure more than clarify. “The whole point of an analogy is to try and make something easier to understand,” said Nemeth, “and I think what they did is took something the [viewers] had some grasp of and made it incomprehensible.”

Then again, as Orwell notes, what Nemeth is describing is often what happens when language is employed for political purposes. Writing in the wake of the second World War, Orwell notes how “Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

Perhaps the stakes were a bit higher then (to use a dying metaphor). But Orwell’s desire for us to view “language as an instrument for expressing and not for concealing or preventing thought” is still worth reiterating.

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