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Wynn Grabs Negreanu for His New Casino Poker Room

The newest creation of casino tycoon, Steve Wynn, is the Wynn Resort – and it is promising to compete with the other big casinos in Las Vegas.  Ironically, it was these same casinos that Wynn once created who are now attempting to enforce safeguards that would keep them from losing patrons to Wynn’s much talked about casino.  And now that Wynn has signed Daniel Negreanu to be host of his new poker room, other casinos are trying to fight back.  The Bellagio, for instance, has remodeled its own poker room, opening the very day before Wynn’s resort opened its doors.

Located near the top of The Strip, the Wynn Resort is vying for rights to be called the most upscale casino in Las Vegas.  And with Negreanu signed on, which is supposedly a deal going into very large figures, the hip crowd of big-money poker players is expected to be drawn in.  The specifics of the deal with Negreanu have not officially been released;  However, inside sources have reported that the WSOP champion will be playing exclusively at the Wynn when he is not on this year’s WSOP Tour.  Just how often he will be making appearances is not known.

This turn of events is interesting, considering that Negreanu was being courted by Jack McClelland, the tournament director at Bellagio.  In a joking tone at the taping of the WPT, McClelland was urging Negreanu to attend the grand opening of the Bellagio's renovated poker room.  Just how Daniel took the advances shows for itself.  It looks like the ever present, enterprising Wynn won again.

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