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LegalPlay Entertainment Inc.'s Subsidiary Proposed Merger With GamblingVision Group Inc. - 2004-01-23
LegalPlay Entertainment Inc. revealed today it has entered into a letter of intent with GamblingVision Group Inc. whereby GamblingVision will, subject to the conditions of closing, amalgamate with a subsidiary corporation of LegalPlay.

LegalPlay Entertainment Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary, Skill Poker.com Inc. is the operator of www.SkillPoker.com, North America's only legal online poker site. Skill Poker.com Inc. owns the patent pending SkillPoker technology which enables the operation of its own skill based online poker card rooms, with a focus on marketing to poker players in the United States, Canada and throughout the world. Skill Poker.com Inc.'s poker card room is the only legal online system of gaming with all operations including the game servers located on North American soil.
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trailer of the week - 2004-01-23
The pitch: You kinda' liked "The Whole Nine Yards" when you rented it by accident, didn't you? Didn't you?

The details: It looks like somebody's "fresh ideas" drawer is pretty empty -- no more comic books or costume dramas to film, so let's start producing unnecessary sequels to B-movies nobody quite remembers.

Here's what this has going for it: Matthew Perry is on "Friends," which, despite its general awfulness, is still massively popular. Amanda Peet and Natasha Henstridge will bring in the superficial male crowd, but they (OK, we) mostly wait for video.

Kevin Pollak, who has been single-handedly ruining "Celebrity Poker Showdown" on Bravo with his impossibly lame shtick, is back for the sequel, despite the fact he was killed off in the first film.
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