The 1988 WSOP final between Eric Seidel and Johnny Chan is a classic moment in poker. Significant as it may have been in itself, more importantly it was immortalized by the number one poker movie of our times, Rounders, starring Matt Damon. Both Seidel and Chan are still very much part of the professional poker scene, still fighting it out over WSOP bracelets every year in Vegas. Follow all the latest poker news on a comprehensive online guide to poker.
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Eurovision Song Contest 1975 Turkish Entry Semiha Yanki -Seninle Bir Dakika The Eurovision Song Contest 1975 was the 20th edition of the contest hosted by SR and held in Stockholm, Sweden. The arena for the event was the newly built Stockholm International Fairs in lvsj in southern Stockholm. ABBA’s victory in Brighton the previous year gave Sweden the right to host the contest for the first time. The Contest was won by Teach-In, who sang “Ding-A-Dong” in English, representing the Netherlands. Intelligence reports at the time pointed out the festival as a possible target for a terrorist attack by the Red Army Faction which forced the organizers to tighten security considerably. The attack struck the West German embassy in Stockholm instead about a month later (see West German embassy siege). The Portuguese entry “Madrugada” was an unabashed celebration of the Carnation Revolution, during which the country’s 1974 Eurovision entry had played a pivotal practical role. According to author and historian John Kennedy O’Connor in his book The Eurovision Song Contest – The Official History, the Portuguese performer had to be dissuaded from wearing his Portuguese army uniform and carrying a gun onto the stage. [1] Some competitors (notably Portugal and Yugoslavia) opted to perform their songs in English for the rehearsals heard by the judges, but in their native tongue at the final. Others, such as Belgium and Germany, opted for a mix of their own language and English. The …