OK, the attention has been on the actual Texas Hold ‘em Tournament itself and the grand prize of 21 million miles. However, if you’re anywhere close to Las Vegas on Sat. Aug. 9th, there will be a slot tournament for any OnePass member, not just those playing poker.

The good, well, actually great news is that this tournament will be free and there will be prizes up to 70,000 OnePass miles.

The details: Held at the Golden Nugget, registration will be from 11a.m. to 12 noon by the Golden Nugget staff in the Slot Tournament area on the casino floor. The actual tournament will begin at 12 noon.

Hot tip: The entry for this event will be free to all OnePass members … and their “guests.”

Travel lightly, but bring someone lucky with you.

Watch this little clip courtesy of the folks at fulltiltpoker.net and it pretty much explains what is in the chips for the OnePass Poker tourney:

We Play For Big Pots, Small Stakes and the Chance to Say …

Read ‘em and Weep.

With about 10 days to go until the start of the OnePass Poker tourney, it’s time I begin to think about just how big this event is. Imagine … 21 million OnePass miles. In future blogs, I’ll break down the miles into an understandable grid of possible redemptions. But for now, I’m getting my game face on. On a recent international business trip, I did stumble onto the movie 21 playing so it got me into the gambling attitude and for those who have seen that movie, you’ll notice my tribute to the “winner, winner, chicken dinner” mantra from the film included in the heading for this blog. But one movie is not enough, so with my good friend Google I found a listing of The Game’s the Thing – 10 of the best card playing and poker movies. The author notes: “Hollywood often uses gambling, and less often card playing, to add a flavor to a movie. Unfortunately most of these movies have silly scenes (House of Games) or stink (Honeymoon in Vegas) or both (Maverick).”

Netflix proved to be invaluable for me collecting these 10 movies to watch and here’s the link to the best card playing scenes in the movies.

The Game’s the Thing