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Article: Poker palace.(ENTERTAINMENT)(competition of poker players )(Brief article)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- July 24, 2006
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Call it poker's answer to the Crystal Cathedral. Appropriately enough, it's in downtown Sin City at the comer of Las Vegas Boulevard and Fremont Street.
The huge, 80-foot by 40-foot soundproof glass dome is the unlikely centerpiece of Fox Sports Net's series, "Poker Dome Challenge." Poker players will sweat it out under the watchful eye of a 150-member audience for a $1 million winner-take-all pot.
Poker is common on television, but sponsor MansionPoker.net is hoping the unique and unprecedented look at televised poker will separate it from the pack. The dome will keep things on the up-and-up by ensuring the players, whose images and actions will be ...