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Dead Man's Estate Funds Free Online Poker Site; Eccentric Millionaire Goes ''All In'' One Last Time.


LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850.  -- Today LastCallPoker.com (www.LastCallPoker.com) a free Texas Hold' Em Web site designed and funded by deceased millionaire, Lionel "Lucky" Brown was launched on the Internet. Last Call Poker Last Call Poker is the name of an alternate reality game, involving the events in the Microsoft video game GUN and created by 42 Entertainment.

It involves these characters:
  • The Dealer
  • The Kid
  • The Gunslinger
What's this all about?
 uses the web's most sophisticated poker system, featuring a no-download Flash engine, an in-game chat system, and a level of graphic design and interactivity unmatched in the online games industry.

Brown, upon his death, willed five million dollars of his fortune to the creation of LastCallPoker.com to facilitate the development and maintenance of this online game site. Lucky Brown always said that a hand of poker he won at the end of the War gave him the seed money for his fortune.

As his final resting place has been kept secret, an undisclosed amount of money has been set aside for "wakes" to be held in cemeteries nationwide where poker fans will play Tombstone Tombstone, city (1990 pop. 1,220), Cochise co., SE Ariz.; inc. 1881. With its pleasant climate and legendary past, Tombstone is a well-known tourist attraction. The city became a national historic landmark in 1962.  Hold 'Em, a poker variant Brown invented while serving in Europe at the end of World War II End of World War II can refer to:
  • End of World War II in Europe
  • End of World War II in Asia
. Graveyard Games are currently scheduled for cemeteries in San Francisco, Washington D.C., New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
, Atlanta, Los Angeles and others to be announced To be announced (TBA)

A contract for the purchase or sale of an MBS to be delivered at an agreed-upon future date but does not include a specified pool number and number of pools or precise amount to be delivered.
. Rules for Tombstone Hold 'Em and a calendar of events can be found at www.LastCallPoker.com/allin.

About LastCallPoker.com

Built with a dead man's money, Last Call Poker (www.LastCallPoker.com) is a 100% free poker site that offers Texas Hold' Em gameplay without the requirement of downloading from the Internet. More information is available at LastCallPoker.com.
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Date:Sep 26, 2005
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