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The 2010 WSOP will offer 57 events including six $1,000 Hold’em events and a $50,000 Player’s Championship, according to a schedule released by Harrah’s today.

The 41^st edition of the prestigious series will run May 27-July 17, 2010, at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

The number of events remains unchanged from last year with buy-ins ranging from $1,000 all the way up to $50,000 for the Player’s Championship.

“Whatever your game and whatever your bankroll, the 2010 WSOP schedule offers something for everyone,” said WSOP tournament director Jack Effel. “We are planning for the largest WSOP ever and look forward to welcoming all players to the Rio in Las Vegas this summer.”

The 2010 WSOP will culminate with the $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em World Championship, which begins July 5 and will reach a final table on July 17.

For the third consecutive year, the final nine players will take a four month long break before reconvening as the November Nine on Nov. 6-9 to play out the final table.

The series will begin with the $50k Player’s Championship on Friday, May 28^th, although players will also have the option of a two-day $1,000 Hold’em tournament that also begins that weekend. There will be a $1,000 two-day Hold’em event in every one of the series’ first five weekends and one more on July 1-2.

The $50K Player’s Championship will effectively replace the $50K H.O.R.S.E. event by adding 2-7 Triple Draw, No-Limit Hold’em and Pot-Limit Hold’em to the mix of games.

The winner will still receive the Chip Reese memorial trophy.

Meanwhile H.O.R.S.E. lovers will benefit from the addition of $10,000 Championship H.O.R.S.E. event in lieu of the former $50k event.

Also new for the year is a $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em Six-Max event, which should draw elite rounders from around the globe.

The rest of the schedule remains largely unchanged with notable tournaments like the Ladies event, Seniors event and Ante Up for Africa all returning.

For the first time ever, the entire convention center at the Rio will be used exclusively for the World Series of Poker with tournaments tables in the 58,000 square foot Pavilion and 38,000 square foot Amazon Room.

The food tent will also see changes as it now becomes an indoor food court in the Miranda Room.

In 2009, the WSOP drew 60,875 players from 115 different counties with $175 million up for grabs.

Pre-registration for the 2010 WSOP is now available on-site at the Main Cage in the Rio and online at WSOP.com.

Scotty Nguyen has more than $10 million in career tournament earnings.

But it’s more than money that motivates him.

“It’s not the money,” he told PokerListings. “When you win tournaments, fame and money come with it. For me it’s so important to bring home the title. You want to show the world you still have it, you can come out and compete.”

Competing is exactly what Nguyen has done this week at the WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic.

From a field filled with 329 of the biggest names in poker, just 16 players are still in the hunt for an almost $1.5 million first-place prize headed into Day 5 Friday.

Nguyen was among the leaders before a late fall from grace that has him short stacked.

However, he still retains a shot at making the final table and booking the win.

Nguyen’s $10,705,581 in career earnings has him sixth on poker’s all-time money winners’ list and a win at Bellagio this week would push him up to fourth all-time above Phil Hellmuth and only below Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey and 2006 Main Event champion Jamie Gold.

Nguyen has five World Series of Poker bracelets and this past April he finished sixth at the WPT Championship, marking his sixth WPT final table.

However, the 1998 WSOP Main Event champion still feels like he has to fight for respect.

“I get older and people lose respect,” the 48-year-old Las Vegas resident said. “They say I don’t have my game no more, I’m scared. All those young guns, 21 or 22 years old, they have big hearts, but Scotty has a bigger one, baby.

“They got nothing to lose. They’re bluffing you, they try to embarrass you and laugh at you. They say I’m too old and I should retire, but I don’t let that bother me. I let my game show them, baby. You can laugh all you want, but I am the one laughing all the way to the bank.”

Things haven’t always been roses for Nguyen. There was public scorn over a rather embarrassing finish to the 2008 WSOP $50k H.O.R.S.E. event where he has admitted his emotions and alcohol got the best of him.

Plus, like all poker players, he’s had downswings and periods when it felt like he would never win again.

But the man they call the Prince of Poker, who fled his native Vietnam in 1978 for the United States, says it’s the tough times that have made him a better poker player, and a better person.

“When you hit hard times and things don’t go your way, it can only make you become stronger,” he explained. “When my back is against the wall and I look around and say ‘what am I doing, I can’t win, what happened to me?’ I just rewind and think about what I’ve been doing wrong and know that I have to change it.

“Hard times, that’s what you learn from.”

When the cards hit the air at Bellagio Friday at 12 p.m. PT and the play down to the final six commences, Nguyen will have just one thing on his mind – Winning.

“I’ve seen it all in poker: Good times, bad times, happiness, sadness,” he said. “I just want to let everybody know, Scotty still has it. I have to go out there and show them. Not just talk about, anybody can say it, I want to show the people.

“I just have to trust myself and go out there and show it.”

We’ve been telling people for a long time that they shouldn’t focus on PageRank so much; many site owners seem to think it’s the most important metric for them to track, which is simply not true. We removed it because we felt it was silly to tell people not to think about it, but then to show them the data, implying that they should look at it. 

More details on why not to obsess over PageRank here:
   http://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/en/faq–crawling–indexing—ranking#pagerank

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December 1 morning news, Baidu is scheduled to become fully operational today, Search Marketing Professional (ie, phoenix nest system). The classic version of the original search marketing (ie the bid ranking) will be breaking away from the stage of history.

In the competitive rankings based network marketing is the most important source of revenue for Baidu, Baidu in the third quarter total revenues of 1.2787 billion yuan, of which revenues from the network marketing 1.2782 billion yuan, the proportion is close to 100%. Bid ranking, however, while revenue for Baidu, but also once the negative impact.

By the end of 2008, Baidu CEO Robin Li first time revealed to the outside world, will launch a professional version of search marketing system phoenix nest, to address the general search and bid ranking search results confusion. Baidu released this year’s third quarter financial results, Li officially announced on December 1 overall to the Phoenix nest system switching.

Ranking in the original bidding mechanism, Baidu’s search results and the average ranking of search results ranked bid together, only the lower right corner in the relevant search results to “promote” the word mark; another in a search results page on the maximum possible 10 bid ranking content, and arranged on top, likely to cause inconvenience to users.

After the opening of phoenix nest, Baidu search page advertising space is divided into the upper left, lower left, right three parts, of which the greatest change is the left side of advertising spaces and forms.

The phoenix nest in the new system, Baidu search results in general the top and bottom of each ad has opened up two areas to deeper background, and in the upper right corner marked “promotional link” words, etc., with the ordinary Search Results for the contents of a significant segment, and the promotion of each region are generally not more than three links.

However, if the promotion of information and matching the user’s search results is very high, Baidu will continue to follow the position adopted in the original bid “promotional” mode. If not meet the relevant standards, it will be displayed in new ways.

In addition to the external manifestations, phoenix nest and competitive pricing structure has also been ranked in significant changes. Baidu revealed that after a bid approach for the ranking structure of “promotional platform - key phrases - Keywords A … … N-single-creative”, while in the phoenix nest, under this structure the system into a “promotional platform - Promotion - Promotion Unit — Key words correspond to creative. ”

For the above changes, Baidu, vice president of business operations, said Shen Hao Yu, Feng-nest system and the bid ranked traditional methods such as the important difference is that the relevance of search results the weight of the phoenix nest bigger and bigger. Shen-Hao Yu, according to the words is that if a customer is not something users need, how much money to not give routed to the first