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Despite the major online poker indictments, player participation in the first 11 events at the World Series of Poker is up 2.5 percent over last year.

Matt Perrins learned all he needed to know about 2-7 lowball in 30 minutes of YouTube viewing, winning a World Series of Poker bracelet and $102,105 despite having never played the game before.

Station Casinos has unveiled the new Tarzan Lord of the Jungle video game at 10 of its casinos in Nevada.

Defending World Series of Poker Main Event champion Jonathan Duhamel has embraced his role as poker's new ambassador.

Amir Lehavot laid claim to the first $10,000 title at this year's World Series of Poker, claiming the Pot-Limit Hold’em World Championship and $573,465 in prize money. Lehavot, who is originally from Israel, now resides in Weston, Fla.

High profile alleged bribery case trial opens today in Alabama Victoryland case.

If you're going to be in Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker, the opportunity to check out some of the Top-10 other things Las Vegas has to offer this summer.

Harrah's Chester Casino and Racetrack slot revenue fell 10.98 percent in May 2011.

The Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem is operating roughly 50 buses a day from New York City’s Chinatown and other locations.

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has 45 days to decide whether to sign a massive casino expansion bill in his state.

Six years after two unlikely people encouraged him to drop out of college to play poker professionally, Harrison Wilder has won a WSOP gold bracelet and a $205,065 payday.

Eugene Katchalov defeated a field of 357 players to win the $1,500 buy-in Seven-Card Stud championship at the World Series of Poker, claiming $122,909.

Allen Bari won the biggest cash prize of any WSOP winner so far in 2011, earning a whopping $874,116 in first-place prize money.

Francesco "Cheech" Barbaro won the largest live Omaha high-low tournament in history, topping a field of 925 players to win the $1,500 buy-in Omaha High-Low Split Championship at the 2011 World Series of Poker to win $252,283 in prize money.

Anne Arundel County Police Department rewarded for working with the federal government in the recent online gambling sting operations

The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas will give each gambler a $100 "in Identity play" if they lose $100 in one day.

Penn National Gaming officially acquired M Resort in Nevada on Wednesday after state gaming regulators approved the deal last month.

Sean R. Drake, from Folsom, Calif., won the $500 Casino Employees Championship and $82,292 in prize money at the World Series of Poker

Gov. did not state he would veto legislation, but called it excessive and top heavy.