Strip Poker: Hooman Nikzad Wins NBC Heads Up Seat

Pros and amateurs alike made up the 79-player-deep field. Because the event is limited to 64 players, the invitation-only tournament cannot possibly re-invite all previous players, so many big-name pros put up the $500 buy-in to get another chance at the NHPC title.

It came down to Nikzad and Carl Cox heads up for the seat. Eventually, Nikzad outlasted Cox for the first-place prize, worth a $20,000 seat and $1,000 in cash. Cox was compensated for his second-place finish with nearly $10,400.

Nikzad is joining the elite group of players taking part in the 2008 NHPC. Festivities kick off Thursday, Feb. 28 with a pairing party at PURE Nightclub. Nikzad could draw any player from the impressive roster, including anyone from three-time NHPC casher and World Series of Poker champion Huck Seed to NHPC rookie and baseball star Orel Hershiser.

This self-proclaimed pro-amateur enjoys the game in his free time away from his family and business, but he is also a very accomplished player. He has nearly $500,000 in lifetime winnings and recently won a preliminary event during the Bellagio Five-Diamond World Poker Classic for almost $265,000. He s been playing for more than 15 years and calls two-time WSOP bracelet winner Tom Schneider

Because of a very sucessful 2007, Schneider is also set to compete in this year's NHPC. Both Schneider and Nikzad are from the Phoenix, Arizona, area, and the two competitors will have to set friendship aside should they draw one another in a NHPC match.

Watch an interview with Nikzad by clicking here

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Santa Ana, located west of the second floor of this Beijing theater; small Ballroom Association, located in Xuzhou Road East first, before liberation of the ballroom, have professional dancers, is for the rich pleasures of vice establishments, after the liberation of the early 1950s are eliminated. Until the early 1980s, no business in the ballroom.

Some cultural units in 1984, to receive group or charter, the pilot of internal party business. After the 1987 cultural units, in addition to many hotels, restaurants have opened dance halls, the need to adapt to the market economy, allowing discos open for business. Open ballroom of the region are: cultural centers, recreational hall, Beijing theater dance halls, People s Park, Tianjin hall, Tsu Castle Hotel, Spa Hotel, Huachang hotels and guest houses. In the early 1990s ballroom rapid development of the entertainment industry by the public low - to high-end consumer entertainment luxury development. 1995 to the whole region, dance halls, karaoke bars, karaoke OK, KTV packet small dance hall-more than 80 song and dance halls, etc., which have a certain level of Asia Sidel, Hawaii, healthy recreation center, a health club entertainment Junhui , the Oriental Pearl Entertainment Center, Wong is the hotel, the Pacific Entertainment City. January 1994 to establish a song and dance halls, Hexi District Association, in-depth study relevant laws and regulations, strengthen operations in accordance with the law, civilization emerged in a number of dance halls.

Luxiangting early 1984 video industry in the region quietly rising. Initially, the South some individual video, portable recorders, projectors and loan hall way video screenings, mostly to Hong Kong and Taiwan-based, form new Panmu surprising the audience motivated. 1985 local video business units or individuals are on the rise, showing pornographic video is a frequent phenomenon in strengthening the management imperative video market, in addition to the video unified management, and specifically provides that no-showing pornographic, reactionary video products, illegal gets correct. screening unit to the Office of the State Council mainly cultural units, video screenings reunification issued by the municipal video rental unit. video market in 1987 harmonization of norms, purification, entered the health carriers. to 1995, A total of the region 24 video screen, including the Pearl River Road Wenhuazhan, Haiti Wenhuazhan Yangtze River Theatre, Haiti Theatre, the auditorium cotton, cotton four Auditorium, College auditorium, such as People s Park.

Electronic games in 1990, only the region of the electronic games business, loved by young people. 1990-1991, Luoyang inspiration to a few companies and individual operators, a total of more than 20. Since 1992 the game developed into a variety of computers or touch-style handle, operators also developed rapidly, to the development of the region in 1995 to more than 180. Content development from pure entertainment to the quiz games, and a lot of pure gambling game, mahjong tiles, poker, Mac, Happy Valley, etc., to the construction of socialist spiritual civilization has brought great harm. 1992 games in the entertainment industry specifically provides that: must be to the benefit of the people for the purpose of physical and mental health, not allowed to engage in the activities of a gambling nature, are not allowed to use reactionary, obscenity, pornography, terrorism and other images of electronic game board , in addition to national holidays provisions, the Office of electronic games (rooms) are not allowed to middle and primary school students and opening up. After gradually straighten out and clean up the entertainment industry to gradually move toward healthy development.

Billiards snooker Shixing in the entertainment industry in 1986, and the development of rapid, 1:00 streets can be seen everywhere, mostly simple wooden table, due to the traffic impact and gambling reasons, been eliminated. 1987 District Stadium, the establishment of cultural centers, such as the high-grade billiards room, and hosting a number of regional and trans-regional and billiards competition, and promote the development of the billiards movement. Billiards 1995 to the Office of the region there are 19, 44 and Taiwan.

Book publishing, leasing industry in the area in 1930 before a book leasing industry, the leasing of novels, magazines and comic books mainly. Before the liberation, the region has more than 60, there are a certain number of the Taku Road, Kentoku Zhuang, such as under the mountainside viewed with Hall, the collection around in 5000, most of the remaining share, kiosks, and the library collection of over 1,000 volumes. Target audience is mainly workers, shopkeepers and students. In 1949 after the liberation of publications owners displaced or return home, the remaining 30 households. Book industry in 1950 to establish support group to exchange points of the 1956 annual rent attributable to the EC for all enterprises, the establishment of the CMC comic shop. To 1966 Cultural Revolution was started as a four olds full closure. 1980 industry gradually restore individual books. 1988 pornographic books of the market, homicide of illegal books. 1990 into management, granting a permit. Adhere to a regular or irregular basis in each of the organization of joint inspection to purify the book market. To the region in 1995 to a total of 85 professional books.

Audio-video products in 1982 in the area of retail sound recordings, in 1990 to develop more than 20, in 1992 after emerging video products retail leasing industry. Audio-visual products market in 1993 was very active, the region of more than 100. The same year into management, the implementation of permits issued, only collective video products business, the people, sound recordings allow wholesale. At the same time, piracy products flooding after several consolidation of inventory, governance, confiscated illegal pirated products, which are to be quarantined serious offence. To 1995, the whole audio-visual products business units remaining 75.

Chashe the field in the book market, Chashe Shixing in the Late Qing Dynasty. 1917 Hebei

Tokusho become victims seeking refuge one of the regions industry, stalls and vendors, with the book market, Cha She has been increasing, there will be the Friends of the market, Yu-shun of the market, Yuan and the field, Lee Shu-shun market Friends of the West will be on the field, Hing-chuen Chashe In addition, He Jiali mouth with a text-book market, with a Guajia Temple on the field forint, the laboring masses are important places of entertainment, the daily flow of a great audience. Performed to Pingshu, Xihe drums, crosstalk, the main Allegro, the more the audience welcomed the artists have a disability Chapter Pingshu artists, MA Lian Deng, and Chen, GUO Lian-ju; Allegro of the actor Wang Feng-shan Gao Feng Shan, LI Run-jie; River drums artists YANG Wen-yan (female), crosstalk actor Su-mao, and others. Programmes staged by the variety situation in the realm of mixed, mostly Pingshu Generals of the Yangs, call home , Xuejiadao will, Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Outlaws of the Marsh , Ghost Story , Spring and Autumn , 8-eight small, and Jianxia map , the artist said there is a insult , want , Ghost of the absurd obscenity, strange, bizarre. On the field, Chashe equipment is very simple to set up a small stage, dozens of large wooden bench, sitting more than 100 people, visitors freedom to choose their seats, programs every half hour or 40 minutes for one, each one grabbing money. On the eve of the liberation of Tianjin, has been the development of a number of small theater, voiceless in a very complicated prostitutes members, dancers and the pseudo-retired police officers to his living word play is not the script and actors on stage impromptu play , junior lines vulgar, offensive action performances. Tianjin in 1949 after the liberation of the region and the new book market, more than 10 Chashe, Xinhua Chashe-Tokusho, Heshun Chashe East that Chashe, Taku on the sea-Chashe, Ming-shun Chashe, over the Qiongzhou-Lok Chashe, Pukou Road Rongfuchashe. These establishments as a special industry by the public security departments.

Public-private partnerships in 1956, a total of 11 of the region Chashe into the state field. 1957 on the establishment of district management group market, the book market Chashe into systems management, performance on the content of the standards. On the market to take time charge. Apart from performing Pingshu, quyi, has also increased the Shaoxing opera, acrobatics, singing and dancing, and other programs to the working people to enjoy fun, active cultural life of the masses. Great Cultural Revolution period, the area of the field, Chashe be regarded as a four olds and cancelled.

VI municipal cultural sites

Previously, the district seldom municipal cultural sites. After the Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC, and the city at the same time, in the region of large cultural facilities, municipal construction, and more. These new modeling, functional diversity, a large playground advanced facilities, theaters and belonged to various cultural sites each other, constitutes a new type of urban cultural environment.



1995 Hexi district municipal cultural sites

Garden-style entertainment, the main recreation building, including the ballroom, bowling alleys, indoor swimming pool, the theater, friendship restaurants. Yanyuan, Cangyu trees, the water rocks, galleries Club pavilion. To receive international friends and overseas Chinese, Hong Kong and Macao compatriots, senior intellectuals for clients.