Posts Tagged ‘CBS’

Vanessa Rousso to appear on Big Brother

Wednesday, June 17th, 2015

When summer arrives, television viewers can expect to find new television shows to launch during the off-peak season. For the most part, new shows are of the reality variety with one of the most popular being Big Brother of the CBS Network. Big Brother places a certain number of individuals in a home that is restricted of no televisions, radio or outside contact. Each contestant competes for rewards and the coveted Head of Household to have a say in who gets to stay and who goes home. It has recently been announced that a top poker pro will be taking part in the upcoming season of the reality show.

Vanessa Rousso will be one of 14 house guests featured on the show and should be able to put her poker skills to good use. Many guests of the Big Brother house use their skills and do not reveal who they are or what they do for a living. As an avid fan of BB, it would be smart for Rousso not to reveal what she does for her career, unless someone recognizes her.

Other guests of the BB house will realize that Rousso can use her poker skills to lie and manipulate the other guests and may feel threatened. The poker pro is all about competition and commonly takes part in poker tournaments, earning cash outs or title wins.

The new season of Big Brother begins on the 24th of June on CBS and will feature Rousso being introduced as a member of the cast. For two nights the show will introduce the new cast mates so everyone will get to see Vanessa as she interacts with others and plans out her strategy to win the game. It will be definitely be an interesting season as the poker pro joins in for 2015!

 

 

60 Minutes to Discuss Lawsuits with Phil Ivey

Wednesday, October 1st, 2014

file474123808893060 Minutes is a long running CBS program that highlights top news stories and occurrences in pop culture as well as everyday life. The program has provided entertainment for decades and this weekend will feature a program on poker pro Phil Ivey. Ivey will be discussing his career as well as current legal battles where the pro is accused of cheating.

The special episode will air on October 7th and will be in interview form completed by James Brown. In the interview, Ivey will discuss edge sorting, which is the method of cheating in baccarat that the pro is accused of doing on two different occasions. Ivey will be defending his honor on the Sports section of the television series.

A teaser was released by CBS highlighting the Ivey interview and show Brown and the pro in Las Vegas during the most recent World Series of Poker. Brown asked poignant questions and Ivey was allowed to defend himself based on the cheating allegations.

Ivey decided to sue Crockfords Casino in May of last year after he was not paid $12 million he won at Punto Banco. The game is a form of baccarat and he is now fighting the casino to get paid. He also has a lawsuit with the Borgata Hotel Casino & spa in which he is being sued for $9.6 million after winning this amount at the baccarat tables. Both casinos are accusing Ivey of edge sorting and want to pro to pay the price for his actions.

Ivey and Cheng Yin Sun have been accused to taking the action to cheat the casino, which means the two spotted tiny variations in the cards printing patterns of the back to determine which cards are which. For now, Ivey will hope to regain his reputation and shed light on the subject of the lawsuits.