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The online casino gambling guide 'Online-Casinos.com' is now offering a video poker training tool. This free game allows casino players to play as many video poker hands as they like in order to become confident enough to take the next step and play for money. If a player makes a strategic mistake, the poker machine will correct the player. The game is made in Flash and is completely free. No registration or download is required.

(PRWeb) April 13, 2007 -- Video poker can be a intimidating game for a player not familiar with the best playing strategies. Therefore, in order to allow casino players to get more comfortable with this entertaining game, Online-Casinos.com is offering a free, no-download required, video poker training tool. This free game allows players to play as many video poker hands as they like in order to become confident enough to take the next step and play for money.

Time Warner customers get Wi-Fi hotspots

SEATTLE - In a big win for a little Wi-Fi startup called Fon, Time Warner Cable Inc. will let its home broadband customers turn their connections into public wireless hotspots, a practice shunned by most U.S. Internet service providers.

Fon was founded in Spain in 1995 on the premise that people shouldn‘t have to pay twice — once at home, then again in a coffee shop — for Internet access. At first, the company offered software that let members, called Foneros, turn Wi-Fi routers into shared access points, but it took hours to get up and running.

La Fonera splits a Wi-Fi connection in two: an encrypted channel for the Fonero and a public one for neighbors or passers-by. Foneros can decide how much of their bandwidth to share with the public and can log on to any Fon router without charge.

Microsoft and NAMCO BANDAI create video game history

18 Apr 2007 : Microsoft Corp. and NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc. today made video game history by announcing the first-ever Xbox 360™ “Pac-Man" World Championship, presented by Quiznos. From April 25 to May 9, fans of one of the world's most beloved video games of all time will compete on the classic arcade game via Xbox LIVE® Arcade on the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system, evolving “Pac-Man" gameplay from the local pizza parlors and arcades of the '80s to the Xbox 360 and its online gaming community with more than 6 million members. The top finalists from participating countries around the world will be flown to New York City for the finals on June 5, with the winner being crowned the Xbox 360 “Pac-Man" World Champion by Toru Iwatani, the creator of “Pac-Man."

Since launching in 1980 in Japan and in 1981 around the world, “Pac-Man," its host of ghosts and the famous “wakka wakka wakka" sound have become global pop culture icons.

Sunday's events

TUNE IN: Plano Civic Chorus performs Mendelssohn's Elijah with the choir of Temple Emanu-El, accompanied by the Plano Symphony Orchestra. 3 p.m. at Temple Emanu-El, 8500 Hillcrest Road. $20. 214-706-0000 or planocivicchorus.org.

YOUNG TALENT: "On Broadway" by Ivy Camerata Orchestra (comprising musicians ages 14 to 20) includes music from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story and Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I.

Games help teach kids money sense

Maddie Vance of Chantilly, Va., can add to her spending budget for basics such as utilities and food, because she earned a lucky chance from the Participating in Finance Park educational program. Her mother teaches bill-paying with play cash. The Washington Post/JAMES A. PARCELL .

PREP SOFTBALL: Central loses to Cabrini in Beaverton title game ...

BEAVERTON — Mason County Central accomplished its mission on Saturday, reaching the championship game of the Beaverton Invitational softball tournament.

The Spartans won their first three games by a combined score of 43-5, setting up a showdown with defending Division IV state champion Allen Park Cabrini. .