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The online poker room will sponsor "The Empire State Hold’em Championship" at Turning Stone Resort and Casino in Verona.

The state's Seminole casinos will offer Las Vegas-style high stakes, no-limit, around-the-clock poker play starting July 1.

Commerce Casino is expanding its "Player's Reward Card" program that gives participants rewards for every minute they spend at the tables.

Chris Bell won the $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High-Low Split championship on Monday morning to take home a WSOP gold bracelet and $327,040 in first-place prize money, and it couldn't have come at a better time.

The World Series of Poker's Main Event starts on Monday, July 5. Casino City's Vin Narayanan provides his top-10 list of things to watch for at poker's biggest event of the year.

Twenty-four-year-old online poker pro Jesse Rockowitz from Petaluma, Calif., obliterated a field of 3,097 players to capture the sixth $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em title (Event #45) at the World Series of Poker for a $721,373 payday.

Last year, eight days after his own wedding, Matt Matros was in Las Vegas trying to win a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet, and his wife was back home in New York. What a honeymoon.

Moody's Investors Service said Atlantic City is in danger of being surpassed by other jurisdictions, if not this year then surely in 2011, unless a recovery plan is found.

The Connecticut casino is holding a multi-table poker tournament and daily cash game participants will be entered into a top player program.

The “Best Poker Players Never to Win a World Series of Poker Gold Bracelet” list got one player shorter over the weekend, as Gavin Smith won the $2,500 Mixed Hold’em championship (Event #44) to earn $268,238 and his first WSOP bracelet on Saturday night.

Ian Gordon won the $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship (Event #43) at the World Series of Poker. Gordon, a 24-year-old poker pro, earned a well-deserved, and some might say surprising breakthrough victory, collecting $611,666 in prize money.

Dean Hamrick is primarily known as the player finished one position away from being knighted as an inaugural "November Nine" finalist in 2008, but now, he can lay claim to poker's most coveted prize a World Series of Poker bracelet.

Steve Jelinek of Birmingham, England, became the fifth English player to win a World Series of Poker bracelet this summer, topping a field of 847 players in the $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha High-Low Split event to claim the $245,871 first-place prize.

The Mississippi coastal region features numerous golf and gaming options as well as summer activities for all ages.

Sportlight 29 Casino in Coachella has installed 12 new penny slot machines to its gaming floor.

Patti Hart, who has been CEO of International Game Technology since 2009, was elected to the board of directors of Internet company Yahoo.

Frank Kassela captured the $2,500 Seven-Card Razz event just two weeks after winning the Seven-Card Stud High-Low Split championship.

Amendment to Mass. gambling bill to ban smoking approved by Senate.

Despite finishing Day 1 in last place among those still in the hunt for the $2,500 Razz championship at the World Series of Poker, Frank Kassela posted an unbelievable comeback to win his second gold bracelet of the summer.

Steven Kelly won the $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout (Event #39) at the World Series of Poker on Thursday morning to claim his first WSOP gold bracelet and $382,725.