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WSOP Main Event final table has European flavor

LAS VEGAS - The final table for the World Series of Poker Main Event is set and the Europeans are coming. The Czech Republic's Martin Staszko is the tournament's chip leader with 40.175 million in chips. And he leads a contingent of five Europeans to the final table...read more

Bally wins contract for Golden Nugget Atlantic City

ATLANTIC CITY, Nevada -- Slot machine maker Bally Technologies picked up the systems contract for the rebranded Golden Nugget Atlantic City, the company announced Tuesday.The deal is one of several contracts the Las Vegas-based company has announced in recent weeks for slot machine and casino management systems...read more

Gaming Hall of Fame inductees include Adelson, Blue Man Group

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Las Vegas Sands Corp. Chairman Sheldon Adelson, Strip headliners the Blue Man Group and celebrity chef Charlie Palmer are the 2011 inductees to the Gaming Hall of Fame, the American Gaming Association announced Monday.The inductees will be honored Nov...read more

Wynn Resorts sees major jump in profits

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Casino operator Wynn Resorts Ltd. continued to benefit from its casinos in Macau, and a rebound in Las Vegas as double-digit increases in revenues across the board helped the company more than double its second-quarter profit.Wynn Resorts on Monday reported earnings of $122 million, or 97 cents a share, in the three months ended June 30, up from $52.4 million, or 42 cents a share, a year earlier.On an adjusted basis, eliminating special charges, the Las Vegas-based company would have earned $200.8 million, or $1.60 a share, up from $64.9 million, or 52 cents.Revenue rose 32 percent to $1.36 billion from $1.03 billion...read more

WSOP Main Event down to 22 players

LAS VEGAS -- And then there were 22. The World Series of Poker Main Event played itself down from 57 players to 22 Monday, and Anton Makiievskyi emerged as the chip leader with 21.045 million.The final 22 will attempt to play their way into November's final table Tuesday...read more

Gambling and the Law: The Reid-Kyl letter on Internet gambling

Leaders of the Democratic and Republican Parties in the Senate have sent the U.S. Attorney General a letter demanding that the Justice Department do something about Internet gambling. What, exactly, is up to the reader. This Rorschach inkblot test of a letter allows proponents and opponents to project their hopes and wishes on whether the federal government will ever do anything, other than make a few showy arrests, about online gaming. The fact that the authors could agree on even a letter is itself amazing...read more

Top-10 things to look for in ESPN's live WSOP coverage

For the first time in World Series of Poker history, viewers can watch Main Event play as it happens if they have access to the Internet or ESPN2. (Technically, the broadcasts are on a five- and 30-minute delay, respectively, but no editing is done to cut out the less interesting hands.)There have been dozens of hours of live action poker available for viewing in this new (at least for ESPN) live format...read more

Gaming veteran Terry Lanni dies at 68

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Terry Lanni never backed away from a debate.In November 2007, Lanni, chairman and chief executive officer of MGM Mirage Corp., walked into a Bellagio ballroom to address the annual luncheon of the Nevada Development Authority...read more

Atlantic City seeing signs of progress

ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey -- Only in Atlantic City would news of a 4 percent decline in gaming revenues be a cause for celebration.The Press of Atlantic City found that if a gambler with a hot hand at craps had not taken the Tropicana Atlantic City Casino & Resort for more than $8 million last month, June's decline would have been just 2 percent.After 34 straight months of putrid gaming numbers going back to September 2008, officials in the nation's No...read more

Ryan Lenaghan grabs WSOP Main Event lead; Ben Lamb lurking

LAS VEGAS - The World Series of Poker Main Event taught us three critical lessons Sunday:1. A 10-million chip stack is irrelevant when Ben Lamb is chasing you.2. Be frickin' careful when you move chip stacks to a new table.3. If the players -- and their friends and family -- didn't have to be at the Main Event, they would have been watching the Women's World Cup final.Phil Collins (not the singer) was the first player to crack the 10-million chip mark...read more