European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 19 new Law affecting online aspect of poker tourney by Bill ordine the Philadelphia inquirer when its time to shuffle and Deal for the world series of the Las vegas spectacle could have a new that because online poker companies Are largely being dealt out of the popular event that scheduled to Start june last about half of the record main event players had qualified in online Tournai where the buying could be less than the full buying Price for the world championship was but now the online companies key Drivers in pokers popularity Are mostly unwelcome at the world series because of the unlawful internet gambling enforcement act that was signed into Law last while the Law Doest criminal ize online it largely prohibits online gambling Busi Nesses and the funding of Gam bling As a some Large online such As have stopped accepting Cus other such As poke stars and still accept Chris the player who is often credited with sin Glen Anderly jump starting was a poke stars qualify he earned his seat in the 2003 tournament where he pocketed million by first winning a internet Over the last few online poker has been huge at the world last part poker had its logo John us vegas  Richard Gryko stacks his chips last August at the word series of poker in Las handing out shirts and baseball much of that will be muted this year the table logos will As the online companies stay away or re Duce their and Casino company Harrah which runs the world tries to distance itself from Harrah is increasing the number of events to 55 from 46 a year to make up for the potential loss of online Harrah will hold its own main event qualifying tournaments at the Rio for and with participation still a ques Tion its unclear How big the top prize will be for the main event otherwise known As the world championship no limit Texas hold pm last years Jamie won and 873 players finished in the this Harrah says its lev Eling the payout with lower top prizes so most winners get More for the tournament is at its carnival like Peak for the first three Days of the main event july when thousands of players Are flush with optimism and a gaming life expo adds to the but theres More to the world series than the main its a series of poker tournaments of various styles and stakes each crowning its own Champion and awarding a coveted Bracelet building up to the main which takes nearly two weeks to com another marquee event will be the june 24 horse an acronym for the five styles of poker played hold seven card and the buying and the versatile emblazoned on the tables at the Rio Al suite hotel Many internet Sites had lavish hospitality to demanded1 is Likely to limit the Field to mostly top rooms for their qualifying players and were major and poker wayward whales move away from Sacramento san Francisco a Way Ward Mother whale and her calf still have Miles 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georgias capital following the september birth of zoo Atlanta new the High museum of arts unique exhibit of works from the louvre and the late 2005 opening of the worlds largest the Georgia next door to the new world of also nearby Are inns Headquarters and the Georgia its making a new epicentre for tourism in said Jeff Swana executive director of the maybe were not yet Orlando or Las but weve certainly moved things up several whats getting Atlanta tourism officials excited is that the new Coke museum is expected to draw about million visitors in its first year and businesses have been working with the museum on packages to link attractions and services to Atlanta just continues to have a lot of momentum and is grow ing As a tourist said Spurgeon president and ceo of the Atlanta Conven Tion and visitors weve got an awful lot of product we need to do a better Job of Tell ing our Story of All the things we have to see and do in this the new museum is about twice the size of the beverage company former which was built in 1990 and located about a mile next to the Georgia Capitol that museum closed april 17 and Drew a total of about 13 million visitors in 17 about 60 artefacts in the new museum were brought Over from the old among the new items to see Are an 1890s mar Blean Onyx coca cola soda Fountain recovered from a shop in a 1939 distributors truck from and the coca cola Couch from the popular to show american the museum also has the secret formula 4d a movie ride in which the audience dons 3d glasses and gets blown with air and sprayed with Mist during the some of the old favourites that will again be on display Are one of the company original prototype contour bottles Only two and a soft drink dispenser used in 1985 on the space shuttle a Section of the museum highlights Coke television commercials and theres also the popular tasting room that was part of the original where visitors can try 70 of the company 400 worldwide beverage including exotic tastes such As a Gin Gerale coloured soda offered in and Bibo Candy and Pine which is sold in South another part of the museum features rotating exhibits the first will feature about 30 Andy Warhol renderings of Coc Colas curvy trademark on loan for a year from the Andy Warhol museum in a display of oversized bottles sits in the Entrance lobby of Atlanta new world of coca cola