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The best poker players in the world will make their way to Foxwoods Resort Casino this weekend for the popular $10,000 World Poker Finals (WPF) Main Event.

News Brief: An investigation by the Indiana Gaming Commission determined the $382 million French Lick Resort Casino is over budget.

Glenn and Debra Bunch from Slidell, Louisiana who won $156,068 last month playing Caribbean Stud at Hollywood Casino Bay St. Louis.

It didn’t take long for poker enthusiast to find their way to the newest poker room on the Gulf Coast especially since Hollywood Casino launched three weekly tournaments last week.

Table game players and sports bettors exited Nevada casinos with a little more money in their pockets as the state's monthly gaming win fell for only the second time in two years, according to figures released Thursday by the Gaming Control Board.

Joel Robuchon at MGM Grand was honored with a Mobil Five-Star Award by Mobil Travel Guide.

News Brief: Owners of the once-legal Tic Tac Fruit video game must remove the gaming machines from bars and other establishments by Saturday or face legal sanctions by the state, Ohio Investigative Unit Deputy Director Scott Pohlman said.

News Brief: South Dakota voters voted ‘yes’ by the strongest margin yet for legalizing video lottery.

News Brief: The Rhode Island casino referendum split the state and cities along class lines.

News Brief: Casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey, won 2.9 percent less money from gamblers in October compared with a year earlier, the state's Casino Control Commission said on Thursday.

Santé, the Magazine for Restaurant Professionals has named chef Rick Moonen of restaurant rm at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino was awarded the Grand Award of Culinary Professional of the Year.

Operators of Fremont Street's renown Golden Nugget hotel casino are betting $100 million that a new shark aquarium, pool and restaurants will lure enough small fish to sustain that area's tourist revival.

Because no one correctly matched all six numbers the Powerball jackpot will grow to an estimated $27 million for Saturday night's drawing.

This week: news on the Inspirada hotel and casino, Internet poker parlors, and how Strip casinos are joining the condo party.

Like mediocre math students wrestling with high-level calculus, the gamblers gathered at the Silverton are shifting in their seats.

The name Eric Lynch didn’t ring many bells in the poker community this summer when the Kansas resident made his first appearance at the World Series of Poker.

Two of the three casino-related issues on ballots Tuesday were rejected by voters.

ews Brief: Reversing their decision of a decade ago, Clark County, Indiana, voters approved legalized gambling for the county by a wide margin yesterday.

News Brief: Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon on Monday scolded Gov. Matt Blunt over an administration plan to temporarily operate a casino.

News Brief: Isle of Capri Casinos Inc. would pay the city's Urban Redevelopment Authority $1.3 million a year to use a parking lot above Mellon Arena for a temporary casino if it wins the Pittsburgh slot machine license.