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Mississippi commissions a task force to study online gaming.

Seventeen casino license applications were filed with the New York State Gaming Commission.

Tropicana intends to terminate the lease and discontinue its operation of River Palms in September 2014.

Rooms at the Linq will have a new look as Caesars Entertainment transitions from the Quad Resort & Casino. The company is spending $223 million on the project.

David Siegel, founder and CEO of Westgate Resorts, who has acquired the LVH, helped take down the letters to celebrate the change-over to Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino on July 1.

Dan Colman, an online heads-up sit-and-go specialist, beat Daniel Negreanu heads up to win the $1 million Big One for One Drop, $15.3 million and his first World Series of Poker bracelet on Tuesday night.

With nine players remaining in the $1 million Big One for One Drop but just eight places paying out, the tournament was sitting on the biggest bubble in the history of tournament poker.

There will be no repeat performance from Antonio Esfandiari at this year's $1 million Big One for One Drop at the World Series of Poker. Esfandiari, who won the event when it was last held in 2012, was eliminated two spots shy of the money in 10th place early on Tuesday morning at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino.

For David Siegel, the acquisition of the LVH ended a series of near-misses for buying in Las Vegas.

Gulfstream Park wants to operate all summer rather than traditionally going dark.

The first amateur Mixed Martial Arts World Championships will proceed as planned in the sport's unofficial capital, Las Vegas, Nevada, on June 30-July 5, 2014.

Massachusetts voters could deliver gambling boom to Rhode Island if they reject gambling in referendum.

Hollywood Gaming at Dayton Raceway to open its doors to the public on Thursday, Aug. 28, pending final regulatory approval.

The Cordish Companies and Penn National Gaming, Inc. formally filed their application today for a gaming license in the Hudson Valley-Catskills Region in the state of New York.

The World Series of Poker's Big One for One Drop is underway at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino. Thirty professional poker players and 12 businessmen and entertainers ponied up the $1 million buy-in for the second Big One for One Drop on Sunday afternoon.

Aaron Todd presents 10 numbers to note at this year's $1 million Big One for One Drop at the World Series of Poker.

Maryland's fifth casino will open on August 26, 2014.

All three winners wished to remain anonymous.

"Not just an Atlantic City issue, this is a state issue," says the Mayor and it's a gaming industry issue and a national issue.

Penn National Gaming today formally withdrew its proposal for a $480 million Hollywood Casino Philadelphia.