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In today's installment, Jeffrey Lisandro wins his first bracelet, Chau Giang and Hilbert Shirley are battling for their fourth bracelets in the Pot Limit Omaha with rebuys final table, and David Pham is going for number three in the $3,000 Limit Hold'em final table.

Las Vegas tourism boosters have applied for a trademark on the phrase "Your Vegas is showing" as a slogan to promote Southern Nevada as a tourist destination.

New hotel rooms and emerging technologies are projected to boost Nevada's gaming revenue at a 7.5 percent averaged annual rate during the next five years, according to a global gaming report released Thursday by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Today, bowling centers have emerged as revenue-generating amenities for local gaming companies seeking a different kind of high roller.

CIM Group, the largest commercial landlord in a Hollywood shopping and entertainment district, is scouting the shuttered Lady Luck casino as a potential investment.

To celebrate its seven new routes to McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, AirTran Airways will send one winner and seven of his or her friends to Las Vegas, where they will stay at The Palms Casino Resort.

The Pennsylvania Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association won two victories today in its ongoing efforts to require Greenwood Gaming, the owner of Philadelphia Park, to fulfill its legal obligation to invest $300 million in a new facility and address poor conditions at the race track.

The Borgata Summer Poker Open competition remained fierce, but in the end it was Kalpeshkumar Patel from Elmhurst, NY, who outlasted the field to win the championship and $57,645 in first place prize money.

In this installment, Hoyt Corkins wins his second bracelet, the heads-up event is down to the final-eight, Negreanu makes another final table and the Pot Limit Omaha with rebuys tournament is a zoo.

When Corum, the official designer of this year's 55 World Series of Poker gold bracelets, took one look at the massive bracelets of old, they decided to create something players could actually wear in public.

A place where coinless slot machines are considered high technology is moving closer to the ranks of cities with widespread wireless Internet access.

News Brief: Developers who want to build a casino at the Kansas Coliseum will have until July 20 to submit proposals to Sedgwick County but two county commissioners want to give them longer.

News Brief: Since Victories Casino opened in 1999 the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians have contributed approximately $7.7 million to the community.

News Brief: Members of the media were given a preview tour of the new Odawa Casino Resort as the facility prepared to open its doors to the public on Wednesday, June 20 at 5 p.m.

News Brief: The Philadelphia Board of Revision Taxes this week rejected Foxwoods' appeal of its property tax bill, which increased from $277,670 in 2005 to $1,377,641 last year.

News Brief: At the New Mexico Racing Commission's regular meeting, letters from pueblos and tribes around New Mexico asking the board to tighten the language and add further restrictions, were recognized by the commission and distributed to visitors.

Hollywood Casino Bay St. Louis announced the hiring of Linda Thorpe as Player Development Executive.

Because no one correctly matched all six numbers the Powerball jackpot will grow to an estimated $89 million for Saturday night's drawing.

Executives of Ameristar Casinos, Inc. celebrated with guests and community leaders at a Topping Off ceremony for the Ameristar St. Charles new luxury hotel, spa and pool slated to open in December 2007.

International News Brief: Antigua and Barbuda said it's entitled to $3.44 billion in compensation from the U.S. in a World Trade Organization dispute over an American ban on Internet gambling.