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Daniel Negreanu and Jack McClelland were inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame during a ceremony at Binion's Sunday night. Casino City's Aaron Todd recaps the top-10 moments from the event.

Unlike the Strip, the locals market has been slow to embrace the state’s economic recovery.

The Cosmopolitan, which opened in December 2010, has never reported an annual operating profit.

Full House Chairman and CEO Andre Hilliou asked stockholders to ignore overtures from a shareholder group headed by gaming executive Dan Lee that is seeking to remake the company’s board.

It always staggers the Reel Life when anyone pays anything over $10 for a bottle of wine. Really, anything over $5 is pricey. Two Buck Chuck, anyone?

The process was been put hold until a ballot question that sought to repeal the state’s casino law was decided. On Tuesday, Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly rejected the referendum.

The Gang discusses the implications of the Republican party's big wins in the Senate on the gambling industry, while also looking at election results in Massachusetts, where voters overwhelmingly voted against repealing gambling legislation. They also discuss the Santa Ysabel tribe's launch of online bingo in California, make predictions for the WSOP November Nine, and end the show by picking every NFL game on the schedule against the spread.

Proposition 48 asked California voters to approve the North Fork Rancheria Band of Mono Indians’ casino project that was OK’d by lawmakers and Gov. Jerry Brown. Station Casinos would build and manage the casino.

“Poker Night in America,” a nationally televised cable and web series, returns to Rivers Casino for a high-stakes celebrity cash game on Nov. 13 and 14.

Massachusetts voters saved the state’s fledgling casino industry Tuesday by overwhelmingly rejecting a ballot referendum that would have tossed a three-year-old gaming law.

Massachusetts votes not to repeal 2011 gambling law, casinos will proceed.

South Dakota voters approve measure that will add variety to casino games.

Study to examine the impact of legalized online gambling in New Jersey and to assess whether problem behaviors vary with demographics across the state.

Rivers Casino has been named “Best Overall Casino” in Pennsylvania by readers of Strictly Slots magazine.

The award was part of the publication’s annual “Best of Slots” program, ranking 12 Pennsylvania casinos in 18 distinct categories.

Criss Angel to attempt the Houdini Death Escape at Foxwoods Resort Casino on November 11, 2014.

By all accounts, a referendum to undo Massachusetts’ casino law should get crushed in Tuesday’s election and lose by 15 to 20 percentage points.

A legislative study to explore the question of allowing riverboat casinos to become landed has released its recommendations.

Boyd Gaming CEO Keith Smith said Thursday the company is working with advisors to understand the feasibility of the process.

Company CFO Dan D’Arrigo said preliminary discussions had taken place with a group interested in housing an NHL team at the MGM-AEG arena, which will have 20,000 seats, along with luxury boxes and other amenities.