Apr 14, 2010 | Special Events
Chris Jericho to meet fans on Tuesday, April 20th
WWE superstar wrestler Chris Jericho will meet fans and sign copies of his Rock band’s latest album entitled, Chasing The Grail. This personal appearance and signing will take place on the Spin Street Stage in the Spring Gateway near the Mohegan Sun Box Office in the The Shops concourse on Tuesday, April 20th from 2:00pm to 4:00pm. All Signings & Sightings events are free and open to the public.
ABOUT CHRIS JERICHO
Chris Jericho is a wildly-popular and multifaceted entertainer who has enjoyed success in everything from professional wrestling to acting to even Rock music. He started wrestling at the age of nineteen and hit the big-time in the mid 90s with World Championship Wrestling (WCW). In 2001, the same year the WWE purchased the WCW, Jericho became the first-ever Undisputed Champion of the WWE. He is also the only man to have ever held six different titles in the history of World Wrestling Entertainment. In addition to professional wrestling, Jericho takes on role of lead singer in his Rock band Fozzy. The band has recorded four albums to date including their latest CD, Chasing the Grail. Jericho and the band have built up a strong following and continue to sell out shows across the globe.
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.
Apr 14, 2010 | Entertainment
Live performance in the Arena with special guest Steve Winwood
Carlos Santana’s Universal Tone Tour 2010 gets underway on June 30th with an initial North American leg running through early August. Carlos and the Santana Band will be joined on the road by special guest Steve Winwood, who will open the dates. The tour will be making a stop at Mohegan Sun Arena on Wednesday, July 21st at 7:00pm.
Tickets are $85.50 and $65.50 and go on sale Saturday, April 17th at 10:00am through Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster customers may log on to 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 beginning on Sunday, April 18th, subject to availability.
The Universal Tone Tour 2010 will feature hits from Santana’s four-decade-long career as well as songs from a brand-new studio album that Carlos Santana is currently putting finishing touches on. Santana’s most recent release was the 2010 reissue of Supernatural as a 2-CD Legacy Edition—featuring eleven previously-unissued bonus tracks—in celebration of the classic nine-time Grammy-winning album’s 10th anniversary.
Steve Winwood’s latest studio effort, Nine Lives, released in 2008, was his first solo album since 2003’s About Time. The set debuted at #12 on The Billboard 200 chart, selling about 26,000 copies during its first week in stores.
Exclusive Best Seat ticket presales for the Carlos Santana Universal Tone Tour 2010 will take place on SantanaFanClub.com starting April 13th. Sign up for the SantanaFanClub.com mailing list to receive additional information about specific presale start times, which will be sent out to all subscribers on April 12th.
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.
Apr 13, 2010 | Entertainment, General News
First U.S. tour will be coming to the Arena on June 20th
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S.H.E. x Gary Chaw Crossover Live will be performing at Mohegan Sun Arena Sunday, June 20th. The show will have two performances; the first at 2:00am and the second at 2:00pm.
Tickets are $168.00, $128.00, $88.00 and $48.00 and go on sale Friday, April 16th. Tickets can be purchased through on Sunday Entertainment Concepts, Inc. based out of New York at 646.602.6262 or visit www.sundayusa.us/tickets.
S.H.E is a Taiwanese girl group formed in 2001 and named after the first letter of each member’s first name – Selina, Hebe and Ella. S.H.E. has recorded twelve albums with sales exceeding 4.5 million, and set ticketing records in each of their two concert tours in Asia. The group received an award for “Best Group” at the Golden Melody Awards in 2003 and is also an eight-time winner of the Global Chinese Music Award for “Best Group” given annually by a group of seven radio stations.
S.H.E will kick off their first out-of-Asia World Tour at Mohegan Sun with another popular singer, Gary Chaw. Chaw is renowned for his great stage charisma, wide vocal range and rich voice and has achieved huge success in Taiwan, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore. He also does a lot of compositions and wrote many chart-topping songs in Taiwan for other singers including Aaron Kwok and S.H.E. Chaw won “Best Mandarin Singer” at the Golden Melody Awards in 2008 and his most recent concert tour of Asia, “Welcome To My World,” was a great success.
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/888. For information on this week’s schedule, call the Asian Marketing Hotline at 1.888.999.9977.
Apr 12, 2010 | Breaking News, Gaming
New Haven product Vanessa Selbst is crowned 2010 PokerStars.net NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event Champion with a $750,000 payday
In professional sports, few things are sweeter than winning the biggest game of your career on home turf. New Haven, Connecticut native Vanessa Selbst now knows the feeling.
A 50-minute drive on I-95 will take you from New Haven to Uncasville, Connecticut, home of Mohegan Sun; the second largest casino in the United States and host of the 1st annual PokerStars.net NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event. The five-day, $5,000 buy-in championship Main Event attracted 716 runners from more than 20 countries, smashing records for both attendance and total prize pool ($3,264,244) for a poker tournament at Mohegan Sun.
At the end of Day 1, Selbst finished second in chips, behind then leader David Williams. From there, she never dropped lower than third in chips at any point in the tournament and put on a clinic in deep-stack poker at the final table, en route to earning the largest payday of her career.
“It feels awesome (winning close to home). The most meaningful part of this for me was definitely having a lot of my friends that don’t play poker and a lot of my friends from law school see this, and my girlfriend was able to come,” Selbst said. “It was just really great to have everybody here and to see this. This is the hugest moment that I’ve had in poker so far, so it was really nice to have everybody so close.”
The 25-year-old is working toward a law degree in civil rights at her undergraduate alma mater, Yale University, and despite being $750,000 richer, Selbst said she has every intention of finishing school. When asked where this accomplishment ranks amongst her poker accolades, Selbst replied “This is at the top. I mean, I know that a bracelet is supposed to be prestigious, but let’s be honest… That was $230 grand, and this is $750 grand, so… You can’t argue with the dollar signs.”
A wealth of PokerStars.net Players reached the final table including Main Event runner-up Michael Beasley ($428,000), Scott Seiver (4th, $190,000), Derek Raymond (6th, $115,000), Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy ($85,000) and Jonathan “FatalError” Aguiar (8th, $60,244).
Four new members of Team PokerStars Canada made their debuts at the NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event. Greg Debora, Marcello Del Grosso, Pat Pezzin and Anh Van Nguyen joined Daniel Negreanu and Darus Suharto to form a new-look Canadian team, expected to compete at future NAPT stops. Del Grosso had the most profitable debut of the new Team Pros, cashing in 89th place, good for a $7,500 payday.
Team PokerStars USA members Vanessa Rousso and Dennis Phillips also cashed in the main event; Rousso in 10th place ($47,000) and Phillips in 86th place ($8,500). Rousso’s performance was especially noteworthy, as she managed to best her 25th place finish at NAPT Venetian ($18,080) back in February.
FINAL TABLE PAYOUTS:
1st: Vanessa Selbst (USA) – $750,000
2nd: Michael Beasley, PokerStars.net Player (USA) – $428,000
3rd: Michael Woods (USA) – $240,000
4th: Scott Seiver, PokerStars.net Player (USA) – $190,000
5th: Alistar “Al” Melville (Canada) – $150,000
6th: Derek Raymond, PokerStars.net Player (USA) – $115,000
7th: Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy, PokerStars.net Player (USA) – $85,000
8th: Jonathan “FatalError” Aguiar, PokerStars.net Player (USA) – $60,244
The NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event final table was streamed on a five-minute delay over the Internet via NAPT Live at www.napt.com/tv.
The 2010 NAPT Mohegan Sun tournament series concludes on Tuesday with the final table of the $25,000 buy-in High Roller Bounty Shootout, which starts at 12:00pm EST on Monday, April 12th. Team PokerStars Pros Daniel Negreanu, Greg Raymer, Barry Greenstein and Jason Mercier are all expected to play.
Both the NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event and the $25,000 High Roller Bounty Shootout will be broadcast on ESPN2; dates airing TBD. The next stop on the PokerStars.net North American Poker Tour will be announced soon.
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/.
Apr 12, 2010 | Entertainment
Featuring for the first time Moving Pictures live in its entirety
Rush – Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart – is without question one of the most inventive and compelling groups in Rock history, equally famed for both its virtuoso musicianship and provocative songwriting. The Time Machine Tour is an evening with Rush, where they will perform their classics, give a taste of the future and, for the first time ever, feature the Moving Pictures album live in its entirety. This very special show will be live in Mohegan Sun Arena on Monday, July 19th at 8:00pm.
Tickets are $90.00 and $70.00 and go on sale Friday, April 16th 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, April 17th, subject to availability.
Rush has sold more than 40 million records worldwide and garnered untold legions of devoted and admiring fans. According to the RIAA, Rush’s sales statistics place Rush third after The Beatles and The Rolling Stones for the most consecutive gold or platinum studio albums by a Rock band. Released in 1981, Moving Pictures was their most successful album, certified 4x platinum and features some of Rush’s most well-known songs and perennial radio favorites “Tom Sawyer,” “Limelight” and the Grammy-nominated instrumental “YYZ.”
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.
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