Mar 23, 2010 | General News
Bravo’s big-time Million Dollar Listing agents make a special appearance at Mohegan Sun
UNCASVILLE, CT (March 23, 2010) — The Shops at Mohegan Sun are pleased to announce an all-new Reality Check event. On Tuesday, April 13th, Madison Hildebrand and Josh Flagg of the hit Bravo series Million Dollar Listing will take part in a special live discussion at 7:00pm followed by a signing at 8:00pm. This free and exclusive event will take place in The Shops at Mohegan Sun.
Presented by The Shops at Mohegan Sun, Reality Check is an exciting and interactive event that brings the best and brightest stars from the reality TV world to Mohegan Sun. Reality Check events provide fans with the ultimate exposure to their favorite reality stars with engaging, live exhibitions in The Shops at Mohegan Sun followed by intimate signing events. For more information, visit mohegansun.com/reality-check.
Bravo’s wildly popular docu-series, Million Dollar Listing, in its fourth season and filmed in Los Angeles, CA, is built off three motivated high-end real estate agents who stop at nothing to close the deal on a big sale. One of the stars of the show, Madison Hildebrand, pursued his real estate dreams after graduating from Pepperdine University and earning a mentorship with one the top producing agents in the nation. His first sale was for a celebrity client that tallied $2.8 million and has since breached the $20 million mark. Hildebrand has also written the book, Activate YOUR Passion, which is in stores now.
As part of Keller Williams Realty Westside, Josh Flagg is a highly-driven luxury real estate agent who holds four record sales to date including the highest-ever sale in Brentwood Park as well as record sales on Roxbury, Foothill and Monavale Drives in Los Angeles. He also has set numerous sales records in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles making him undoubtedly one of the most renowned and successful high-end real estate agents in the country. He also has written a book that pays homage to his ancestry entitled, A Simple Girl: Stories My Grandmother Told Me.
Mohegan Sun, owned by the Mohegan Tribe, is one of the largest, most distinctive and spectacular entertainment, gaming, shopping and meeting destinations in the United States. Situated on 240 acres along the Thames River in scenic southeastern Connecticut, Mohegan Sun is within easy access of New York, Boston, Hartford and Providence and located 15 minutes from the museums, antique shops and waterfront of Mystic Country. More information is available by calling 1.888.226.7711 or visiting mohegansun.com.
Mar 23, 2010 | General News, Special Events
Chelsea Handler will meet fans on Friday, April 9th
Immediately following her show in Mohegan Sun Arena on Friday, April 9th, at 8:00pm, the multi-talented and hilarious Chelsea Handler will participate in a Signings & Sightings event. This free personal appearance and signing will take place on the Spin Street Stage in The Shops at Mohegan Sun. All Signings & Sightings events are free and open to the public.
Chelsea Handler’s latest book, Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang, will be available for purchase in Spin Street. This signing is limited to the first 300 Spin Street book purchasers on the day of the event. Each Spin Street book purchaser will receive a bracelet which will gain them entrance to the Chelsea Handler signing line.
ABOUT CHELSEA HANDLER
The ever talented and incredibly entertaining Chelsea Handler has built up quite a career by mixing together stand-up comedy, acting, writing and TV hosting. She is most recognized as the host of her late night talk show, Chelsea Lately, one of the highest-rated E! Network shows. She has also starred in numerous television programs including Oxygen’s Girls Behaving Badly for four seasons as well as regular appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The View, Late Night with David Letterman and Live with Regis and Kelly. Handler has released two best-selling books to date with My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands and Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea. Her latest book entitled Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang was released on March 9th. In 2009, Bravo honored Chelsea with their “A-List Funny” award.
ABOUT SIGNINGS AND SIGHTINGS
Mohegan Sun’s Signings & Sightings, presented in collaboration with Spin Street, is a one-of-a-kind experience that allows guests to get up-close-and-personal with some of the world’s biggest entertainers. Whether it’s an up-and-coming band, well-known comedian or chart-topping musician, a Signings & Sightings event provides artists with an exciting opportunity to share their latest work in an interactive way with fans. Spin Street, located in The Shops at Mohegan Sun, offers a variety of music, movies and entertainment memorabilia with special signing merchandise available for each Signings & Sightings event. Visit mohegansun.com for more information.
Mar 18, 2010 | Breaking News, Gaming
PokerStars.NET AND MOHEGAN SUN GEAR UP FOR NORTH AMERICAN POKER TOUR $25K HIGH ROLLER BOUNTY SHOOTOUT EVENTNAPT Mohegan Sun High Roller event taking place April 12th and 13th.
All eyes will be on Connecticut in April when Mohegan Sun in Uncasville plays host to the third stop of the PokerStars.net North American Poker Tour.
The sixteen-day poker festival will feature some of the best players in the world competing in top-notch events including a $25,600 two-day High Roller Bounty Shootout. Not only will players gain a $5,000 bounty every time they knock out an opponent, but PokerStars.net is adding a seat into the next High Roller Bounty Shootout for the player who collects the most bounties – a prize worth almost $30,000, including accommodations.
The High Roller tournament combines both bounty and shootout formats. Round one on April 12th involves nine tables of nine players, with the first place finisher from each table competing in the winner-takes-all final on April 13th. All the finalists will get $50,000. The remainder (less all the bounties) goes to the overall winner.
Team PokerStars.net Pro Daniel Negreanu said, “I had the opportunity to play in the first High Roller Bounty Shootout at NAPT Venetian in February and I have to say it’s an incredibly exciting format. I am really looking forward to the chance to play again at NAPT Mohegan Sun – and reach the final this time! It’s going to be a great event.”
To give many players an opportunity to play in the High Roller Bounty Shootout event, Mohegan Sun has scheduled a special $5,250 Super-Satellite qualifying tournament at noon on Sunday, April 11th. PokerStars.net is guaranteeing ten (10) $25,600 entries as prizes in this Super-Satellite, with $51,200 (2 entries) added to the prize pool. At least one in-five entrants are guaranteed to win their way through to the High Roller Bounty Shootout event through this Super-Satellite.
The North American Poker Tour is an inaugural event to Mohegan Sun with 37 poker events over 16 days. The tournament will feature the $5,000 buy-in Main Event as well as the $25,600 buy-in Bounty Shootout event, both of which will be produced for a total of four hours for future broadcast on ESPN2 and be hosted by Joanna Krupa of Dancing with the Stars. The Main Event takes place April 7th – 11th and more than 600 players are expected to participate.
Other events include a $300.00 “Ladies only” tournament, a $1,100 buy-in tournament with a $200,000 guaranteed prize pool, as well as other events at a wide assortment of buy-in levels. Among the top players heading to Connecticut are Team PokerStars.net Pros Daniel Negreanu, world champion Joe Cada, Vanessa Rousso and Chad Brown.
The first NAPT was the PokerStars.net Caribbean Adventure in January which was won by Harrison Gimbel from Florida for $2.2 million. Tom Marchese from New Jersey took down the NAPT Venetian Main Event in February for $827,648 and the NAPT Venetian High Roller Bounty Shootout was won by Ashton Griffin from Florida.
Multi-step satellite qualifying tournaments to the NAPT Main Event are currently underway in the Mohegan Sun Poker Room until the start of the tournament.
Both $230.00 “Step 1” satellites and $1,050 “Step 2” satellites are scheduled daily to make participation in the Main Event accessible to players at a wide range of buy-in levels.
Visit mohegansun.com/poker for additional details. One-in-five will advance from the “Step 1” satellites to “Step 2.” One-in-five will advance from “Step 2” to the $5,000 buy-in North American Poker Tour Main Event.
Registration for all events is now available both in the Poker Room and online at Ptseats.com. Registration will be available 24 hours a day until the start of each event. Poker players are also reminded that they can now use their Player’s Club points to buy into tournaments at a value of two points per $1.00.
For full details about all NAPT events, please visit www.napt.com. For information about Mohegan Sun, including gaming, hotel and entertainment facilities, visit mohegansun.com.
About Mohegan Sun:
Mohegan Sun, owned by the Mohegan Tribe, is one of the largest, most distinctive and spectacular entertainment, gaming, shopping and meeting destinations in the United States. Situated on 240 acres along the Thames River in scenic southeastern Connecticut, Mohegan Sun is within easy access of New York, Boston, Hartford and Providence and located 15 minutes from the museums, antique shops and waterfront of Mystic Country. More information is available by calling 1.888.226.7711 or visiting mohegansun.com.
About www.pokerstars.net:
PokerStars.net is the world’s largest poker site with more than 32 million members around the world. It’s the first choice of the world’s top players with more daily tournaments than anywhere else with the best security online. More hands have been dealt on PokerStars.net than any other site.
PokerStars.net operates worldwide under the license from the Isle of Man Government, UK.
PokerStars.net regularly sets the bar high, staging some of the biggest online and live poker tournaments in the world:
-The European Poker Tour attracts many of the best players worldwide and currently generates the biggest prize pool of any poker tour.
-The PokerStars.net Caribbean Adventure (PCA) staged on the shores of Paradise Island in the Bahamas is the largest and richest tournament in the world outside the United States.
-The Latin American Poker Tour unites many of the best players in Latin and South America.
-The Asia Pacific Poker Tour does the same across Asia and the Pacific.
PokerStars.net is also home to an elite team of sponsored players– a group of established and up-and-coming players that travel the world competing in international tournaments. For a full list, visit http://www.pokerstars.net/team-pokerstars/.
Mar 16, 2010 | Entertainment
Live in the Arena on Tuesday, July 6th. Tickets go on sale March 22nd
Sting will spend much of the summer on a world tour, performing his most-renowned songs alongside the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra. The very special concert event will be taking place at Mohegan Sun Arena on Tuesday, July 6th at 7:30pm.
Tickets are $115.00 and $85.00 and go on sale Monday, March 22nd at 10:00am through Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster customers may log onto ticketmaster.com; call Ticketmaster’s national toll free Charge by Phone number 1.800.745.3000; or visit any Ticketmaster outlet. Tickets will also be available at the Mohegan Sun Box Office starting Tuesday, March 23rd, subject to availability.
Last year, Sting unveiled If On a Winter’s Night…, which peaked at #6 on The Billboard 200 and has since been certified gold. The 45-piece Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra will reinvent a variety of hits by Sting and The Police, including “Roxanne,” “Next to You,” “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic,” “Every Breath You Take” and “Desert Rose,” among others. Sting will also be joined by a quartet consisting of guitarist Dominic Miller, multi-percussionist David Cossin, vocalist Jo Lawry and bassist Ira Coleman.
Mohegan Sun Arena is ranked the 4th best venue by Billboard Magazine and was the 2008 recipient of a Country Music Award for “Casino of The Year.” For more information on concerts and other great events at Mohegan Sun, visit mohegansun.com. For information on this week’s schedule, call the Entertainment and Special Events hotline at 1.888.226.7711, ext. 27163.
Mar 15, 2010 | Entertainment
Live in the Arena on Thursday, June 24th. Tickets go on sale March 19th
Two acts that were regulars on the charts in the early 80s, REO Speedwagon & Pat Benatar, are teaming up for a co-headlining tour which kicks off Thursday, June 24th at 7:30pm in Mohegan Sun Arena with special guest Keaton Simons.
Tickets are $35.00 and go on sale Friday, March 19th at 10:00am through Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster customers may log onto ticketmaster.com; call Ticketmaster’s national toll free Charge by Phone number 1.800.745.3000; or visit any Ticketmaster outlet. Tickets will also be available at the Mohegan Sun Box Office starting Saturday, March 20th, subject to availability.
REO Speedwagon continues to support 2007’s Find Your Own Way Home, which marked the band’s first collection of new material in more than a decade. The 10-track set, billed as a return to the power-ballad/melodic-Rock-anthem glory days, has spawned the Adult-Contemporary hits “I Needed To Fall” and the title track.
Go, Pat Benatar’s most recent release and 12th studio effort, surfaced in 2003. The album peaked at #187 on The Billboard 200. Last summer, Benatar celebrated the 30th anniversary of her 1979 debut album, In the Heat of the Night. The set received platinum certification in the U.S. and its third single, “Heartbreaker,” became Benatar’s first radio hit, climbing to #23 on The Billboard Hot 100.
Mohegan Sun Arena is ranked the 4th best venue by Billboard Magazine and was the 2008 recipient of a Country Music Award for “Casino of The Year.” For more information on concerts and other great events at Mohegan Sun, visit mohegansun.com. For information on this week’s schedule, call the Entertainment and Special Events hotline at 1.888.226.7711, ext. 27163.
