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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

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