Poker News: Player of the Year and Caesar's Palace

Posted Dec 24th 2005 4:30PM by Derek McGuire
Filed under: Professionals, Tournaments, World Series of Poker, Casinos & Card Rooms

All you can eat baby! Men “the Master” Nguyen won the Poker Player of the Year race. It came down to the final tournament of the year too.

Men won the Player of the Year championship by beating out John Phan. John was the leader of the pack for most of the year. Congrats to Men . . . Corona's for everyone!

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Caesars Palace in Las Vegas finally opened their poker room to the public. It’s right next to the sports book. The new room cost the casino $12 million!

Next to the new poker room is a 6,000 square foot tournament room. Caesars plans to use this tournament room for the upcoming Heads Up Poker Championship in March as well as for a World Series of Poker circuit event in April.

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