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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

Do payoffs always track the odds overcome to win a bet?

Payoffs on casino wagers generally track the odds against winning them. At double-zero roulette, for instance, odds are 37-to-1 on a single-spot straight-up for a 35-to-1 payoff, 35-to-3 (11.67-to-1) on a three-number row for an 11-to-1 payoff, and 26-to-12 (2.17-to-1) on a 12-number column for a 2-to-1 payoff...read more

Enormous chip stacks have the WSOP Main Event buzzing

LAS VEGAS - The World Series of Poker Main Event found its mojo Saturday. After a week of quiet intensity, a sense of excitement emerged in the Amazon Room as players jockeyed for position to make a run at the final table, and a first prize of more than $8.7 million.The biggest cause for the newfound excitement was the mountains of chips players were accumulating, and the massive pots those chips were creating.The day began with 378 players remaining from opening field of 6,865 players...read more

WSOP chip leader Manoj Viswanathan breaking some trends

LAS VEGAS - The storyline is almost expected. Young poker pro learns to play the game online. Then he plays in the World Series of Poker Main Event, rises to the chip lead and wins the tournament -- seemingly out of nowhere. That's what happened with the last three Main Event champions, Jonathan Duhamel (2011), Joe Cada (2010) and Peter Eastgate (2009).But if WSOP Main Event Day 4 chip leader Manoj Viswanathan (2.115 million) wins this year, he'll break part of this trend.Viswanathan is young...read more

WSOP Main Event field hits the money

LAS VEGAS -- For 693 players, Friday was a good day at the World Series of Poker Main Event. It was the day they began to win money.Friday's Day 4 action began with 852 players remaining from an original field of 6,865. But the $10,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em tournament is only awarding money to players who finish 693rd or better, so 159 players were going home today without winning any cash.With 695 players remaining, hand-for-hand action began in the Amazon Room at the Rio to determine which players would finish out of the money...read more

Sense of urgency picks up at WSOP Main Event

LAS VEGAS - Thursday was moving day at the World Series of Poker Main Event, with players jockeying to keep up with the rising chip stacks in the Amazon and Pavilion rooms in the Rio.And even though the bulk of short stacks exited the field on Monday and Tuesday, chips were flying across the felt like it was an Angry Birds game...read more

Ben Lamb grabs the lead on Day 2B of the WSOP Main Event

Day 2B of the World Series of Poker Main Event began at noon Tuesday with 2,490 players. Four hours of play later, 582 players had been eliminated. That's an elimination rate of 2.425 players per minute. After 10 hours of play, the elimination rate was 2.35 players per minute.If you're thinking that 2.425 (or 2.35) eliminations per minute seems pretty hectic, you're right.Calls of "Seat open" became white noise in the first hour...read more

Featured tables stay empty on Day 2B

LAS VEGAS -- Both the ESPN featured table and the secondary featured table were not in use for the first time in this year's Main Event on Day 2B, but it had nothing to do with the lack of quality players in the field.Patrik Antonius, Phil Galfond, Barry Greenstein, Joe Hachem, Phil Laak, Erick Lindgren, Mike Matusow and Vanessa Rousso were among the many players competing on Day 2B who had plenty of experience in front of the ESPN cameras...read more