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The WSOP, Celebrity Poker Showdown, DD Poker 2006 and Annie Duke Eagle Games and Donohoe Digital today announced the summer schedule for their best selling DD Tournament Poker franchise.

Conceding their bill would have been defeated, Gov. Tim Pawlenty and his state casino bill allies again put off a House committee hearing Tuesday while refusing to declare the issue dead for the year.

News Brief: The St. Croix Casino is 13 years old this year, and the Wisconsin casino is celebrating by going ‘Hog Wild.’

News Brief: New Yorkers would be able to legally wager on trotters and thoroughbreds with the click of a mouse if horse-racing industry advocates and some state lawmakers have their way.

A Hinds County judge says she will rule after June 3 whether casino management courses can be taught in Mississippi.

Wyoming needs a gaming commission to provide consistent regulation of gambling, rather than the somewhat fractured system in place now, the state attorney general and others told an interim legislative committee.

Going from being a small town judge to firing Donald Trump gave Ernest Yelton some memorable first months as the state's top casino regulator.

News Brief: Time is running out to get approval for the Jumer's Casino Rock Island's expansion plans.

A U.S. appeals court Tuesday rejected part of a federal judge's assessment of blame and potential damages in a 1998 barge accident involving a riverboat casino.

News Brief: A Myrtle Beach businessman, Al Shuman, betting that Savannah, Georgia, is big enough for two casino boats.

Since no ticket matched all six numbers to win the estimated $50 million jackpot, the jackpot for the Friday, May 20, 2005 drawing grows to an estimated $60 million.

Another local gaming executive has climbed to the top -- the top of his own casino, that is.

Clark County leaders on Tuesday approved a $2.4 billion plan to complete McCarran International Airport's long-awaited build-out by 2011, approximately three years earlier than previously anticipated.

Magna Entertainment Corporation’s subsidiary, Michigan Racing, Inc., was awarded a license to construct and operate a horse racetrack in the Greater Detroit area by Michigan's Acting Racing Commissioner.

News Brief: Governor George Pataki said the Oneida Indian Nation's Turning Stone Casino is operating illegally but he didn't say what he will do about it.

Montana laws prohibiting out-of-state people from owning state liquor or gambling licenses are unconstitutional because they infringe on interstate commerce, a district judge has ruled.

News Brief: California's gambling commission, an obscure panel that regulates one of the world's largest casino industries, is pushing for permission to take more of its business behind closed doors.

News Brief: The clamor for more Iowa gambling grew louder Monday with Senate Republican leader Stewart Iverson proposing that riverboat casino projects be permitted in Fort Dodge, Ottumwa and Franklin County.

Two casino companies have significantly increased their political donations as they push for state approval of a merger that would create Illinois' largest gambling empire.

Casino revenues in Detroit fell 7.4 percent to $103.8 million last month from April 2004, according to figures released Monday by the Michigan Gaming Control Board.