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Jeffrey Papola won the $5,000 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em championship (Event #32) at the World Series of Poker on Sunday morning, defeating seven-time WSOP bracelet winner Men “the Master” Nguyen heads up for the title.

Matt Keikoan won the $10,000 Limit Hold’em World Championship at the World Series of Poker on Friday morning to claim his second career WSOP bracelet and $425,969.

Miguel Proulx of St. Charles, Quebec, won the $2,500 Pot-Limit Omaha championship at the World Series of Poker early on Friday morning to claim his first WSOP bracelet and the first place prize of $315,311.

The Nevada Gambling Commission granted Penn National a gaming license Thursday, which clears the way for the casino company to acquire a Las Vegas property.

Student wins bad beat jackpot, pockets $54,000.

New Jersey lawmakers want a gambling summit that will reconcile the various sports betting and online gambling proposals.

Jeff Tebben won the third $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em championship at the World Series of Poker on Wednesday night for his first WSOP gold bracelet and a whopping $503,389.

David Warga became the only player in WSOP history to ever win the Casino Employees Championship in addition to an open gold bracelet event after taking down the $1,500 Seven-Card Stud High-Low Split championship at the World Series of Poker.

Will Haydon, a former college golfer, earned his first WSOP bracelet in the $2,500 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em championship.

RealDealPoker.com is offering one of its players a chance to win a seat in the WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas. The winner of the "Main Event Final" will claim the $10,000 prize and head to Vegas to try his luck in poker's biggest tournament.

More than 335,000 votes were cast since March 15 to determine the 20 players who will take part in the free-roll tournament and a chance to win a share of the $1 million prize pool. Five automatic entries were also given to past WSOP Main Event and TOC winners and there were two sponsors exemptions.

Legislation that would allow Atlantic City casinos to offer Internet gambling recently cleared a big hurdle, but the casinos themselves say they want it to fail.

The casino company is restoring nearly 3,700 workers to full-time work schedules and pay, but will lay off 261 workers at its two Strip resorts.

Decline year-over- year for May slot revenue figures at both casinos.

Shareholders of MGM Mirage approved a proposal at their annual meeting that will change the company's name to “MGM Resorts International.”

Sammy Farha, best known for his runner-up performance against Chris Moneymaker in the 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event, won his third WSOP gold bracelet at approximately 7 a.m. PT on Tuesday. Farha's win netted the Lebanese-born professional gambler $488,241.

Warner Gaming told Michigan regulators it has withdrawn its application to manage Greektown Casino.

Russ “Dutch” Boyd won the $2,500 buy-in Six-Handed Limit Hold’em tournament (Event #23) at the World Series of Poker in the early-morning hours on Monday, claiming the $234,065 first-place prize.

Vanessa Hellebuyck won the $1,000 buy-in Ladies No-Limit Hold’em Championship at the World Series of Poker on Sunday night, claiming $192,132 in a tournament that started with controversy, as a handful of men entered the tournament citing anti-discrimination laws.