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PokerStars Throws Major Party at Major Poker Tourney: WSOPWed, Jul 9th, 2008 @ 12:00am Poker players have learned that they do NOT want to miss the PokerStars party during a major poker tournament. And the party at this year's World Series of Poker was definitely one you should not have missed; even if you weren't among the 2,008 players who earned their chance to win $10 million via a satellite on PokerStars; even if you had not seen the billboards at the Palms Hotel; even if you had not seen the PokerStars airplane flying along the Las Vegas Strip and over the Rio; even if all that was true, you still would have known something special was happening Monday night- there was literally something in the air.
And once the Queen of Burlesque herself Dita von Teese, emerged like a pearl from an oyster, or a giant powder case, there were few jaws not dropped to the floor. Von Teese was dressed in something akin to a silver skirt, blue suspenders and feathered tutu. It was a 'when' rather than 'if' all this was going to be discarded, of course, and sure enough, with hordes of beautiful people packed into the club and hundreds more waiting outside edging closer to the entrance, Dita showed Las Vegas how to celebrate a World Series rest day, courtesy of the biggest online poker site in the world. Everyone from the main event, yes all 6,884 guests, had been invited, and it seemed most people had accepted the invitation. By 9pm the cocktail hour had most certainly arrived. According to eyewitness reports, the queue to get in stretched through the casino, through the doors into the night time heat, whilst inside the temperature was equally high in anticipation of the feature event. Team PokerStars Pros were out in spades. Joe Hachem gave the introductions, reeling off the chip counts of the remaining team players, getting a big ironic cheer for his own count which happened to be the lowest. Many were drinking soft drinks with a big day ahead of them tomorrow; some preferred slightly more potent beverages, regretfully released from the burdens of a second day in the main event, at least not this year. Greg Raymer and Chris Moneymaker worked the room before heading to the VIP lounge, so too Chad Brown and Vanessa Rousso, with the likes of Bill Chen, Dario Minieri, Luca Pagano and Isabelle Mercier each partying the night away amid mighty crowds enjoying the festivities. The Pokerstars blog claims: "And who wouldn't. In the biggest party town in the biggest party country in the world, the biggest online poker site got the biggest star. And if you change all those 'biggest's for 'best', you wouldn't be wrong either." Based on blog By Stephen Bartley and Howard Swains
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it did start with a pretty remarkable girl in a hoop suspended 20 feet above
the dance floor, not a muscle wrong, no leg flip left unchoreographed. It
was clear from the start that this was not your usual Monday night experience.
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