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Bodog Poker pro David Williams won the Season VIII World Poker Tour World Championship on Saturday at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. Williams took home his first WPT title and the $1.5 million first-place prize with the victory.

Construction industry in Kansas thrilled at breaking of ground for Hollywood Casino.

Two job fairs in Reno next week will see recruitment for Colorado properties and Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe.

The California casino will celebrate the first anniversary of its poker room on June 5.

The luxury course at Beau Rivage Resort & Casino in Biloxi earned the No. 10 ranking on Golfweek's "Best Tour Courses You Can Play" list.

The Nevada casino operator surprised Wall Street by posting an earnings jump of $36.7 million.

The casino giant lost nearly $200 million mostly due to the lingering impact of the recession on discretionary spending and continued payments on debt.

Boyd Gaming said it would focus on one aspect of Station Casinos' reorganization plan.

The $5.5 billion Marina Bay Sands resort partially opened with 963 hotel rooms, parts of the shopping mall and convention center, several restaurants and bars, and the casino.

The casino giant declined to comment on reports that the off-Strip Rio may be for sale in Las Vegas.

A job fair in Atlantic City on Wednesday hopes to hire local residents.

The battle for a casino near the historic site of Gettysburg continues.

A report from Bloomberg says Harrah's Entertainment is attempting to sell the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

A gaming analyst said bankruptcy sales and companies strapped for cash would flood the market the next two years with gaming assets at cheap prices.

The Reno-based slot machine giant saw a 7 percent increase in net income and a nearly 5 percent jump in quarterly revenues.

Regulators fine two Atlantic City casinos.

Mike "The Mouth" Matusow will teach a special three-hour poker training class on April 30 at the Pala Casino Spa & Resort.

The casino and racetrack operator said its first-quarter profit declined 11 percent from a year ago because of reduced consumer spending on gambling.

Boyd Gaming has been seeking to purchase all or a portion of Station Casinos for the past year and says that Station's reorganization plans would diminish the value of certain properties.

Steve Wynn said on CNBC said he might move his company's headquarters to Macau and also criticized President Obama's economic policies.